Biography of Dix Hamm, Franklin Co, AR

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SOURCE: History of Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford,
Franklin, and Sebastian Counties, Arkansas. Chicago: The Goodspeed
Publishing Co., 1889.

Dix Hamm, general merchant at Mulberry, is a native of Arkansas, born
June 28, 1854, and son of Elisha and Sarah (Bumland) Hamm, both
natives of Alabama, the former deceased, but the latter still living.
The father was a farmer all his life, and reared his son, Dix Hamm, to
that occupation, which the latter followed in connection with trading
until twenty-two years of age. He then attended the Bourland Academy
two years, after which, in 1878, he engaged in merchandising five
miles north of Ozark. In 1880 he established himself in Mulberry,
where he has a stock of goods valued at from $5,000 to $8,000, and his
annual sales equal at least $25,000. He has a large and well-selected
stock of goods, and is doing well in his business. He was married, in
1886, to Miss Rosa Bledsoe, daughter of J. P. Bledsoe, and a native of
Mississippi, born near Aberdeen in 1869. This union resulted in the
birth of two children, a girl and a boy, named Agnes and Guy. Mr. Hamm
started with rather limited means, [p.1243] but by hard work and
economy now finds himself in comfortable circumstances. He owns a farm
in Crawford County of 160 acres, and 500 acres of bottom land. He also
owns three town lots in Mulberry, and is also erecting a stone
building 26×100 feet, one story high; besides this he owns the house
and lot where he now resides.