[1] He was a promoter of the Galena and Chicago Union Railroad and was the younger brother of Missouri Territory House Representative Edward Hempstead.

[2] Charles was born in Hebron, Connecticut, on September 10, 1794 to American Revolutionary War veteran Stephen Hempstead Sr. and Marry Lewis.

In addition, let it be known that despite Charles support for the Northern Union, he had a mixed view on slavery and may have taken the position as a business venture instead of a moral service.

[7] Charles spent the rest of his days in Galena as a prominent lawyer and member of the Early Settler's Association until his death on December 10, 1874 at age 80.

"I have felt it to be fitting that a tribute should be paid to the memory of a man who was a connecting link with the age gone by, and whose career was so interwoven not only with the history of our immediate locality, but with the earlier settlement of the west and northwest.