A.T. Hammons
Arizona, The Youngest State, 1913, pg 615

A.T. Hammons, formerly general manager of the Old Dominion 
Commercial Company and otherwise connected with business 
and mining interests in Gila County but now cashier of the 
Payson Commercial and Trust Company, was born in Angelina 
County, Texas in 1868, a son of Judge James T. and Martha F. 
Hammons. His father was at one time lieutenant governor of 
Texas.  In the acquirement of an education Mr. Hammons of 
this review, attended the public schools of his native state 
and afterward took courses in several business colleges,
remaining in Texas until he was thirty two years of age.  
There he spent four years as the publisher of a newspaper 
and was for three terms clerk of the district in his home 
county.

Upon the expiration of his last period of service Hammons 
left Texas and came to Globe Arizona where he has since 
resided.  Soon after his arrival here he became connected 
with the Old Dominion Commercial Company, as a miner, 
becoming an experienced ore sorter in the two and one half 
years of his service in that capacity.  In recognition of 
his earnest, faithful and capable work he was afterward 
given a position in the company's bank, which was then in 
charge of Mr. Hunt. When the latter was elected governor 
of Arizona, Mr. Hammons succeeded to the position of General 
Manager of the store and bank.  In 1915 the Payson Commercial 
and Trust Company was organized and is now doing a general 
banking business at Payson with Mr. Hammons as cashier.  He 
is president of the Manitou Hill Copper Company whose claims 
are located on Pinto Creek, eighteen miles west of Globe and 
is president of the Five Points Copper mining Company, whose 
mines lie twenty miles west of the city.

In 1893 Mr. Hammons married Miss Harriet J. Baker, a native 
of Indiana, who at the age of ten, removed with her parents 
to Illinois, where she attended the public schools. She later 
studied in a seminary in that state and afterward taught 
school there until her marriage. Mr. and Mrs. Hammons have 
two children:  Edith H., born in 1895, was graduated from 
the Globe High School in June 1912, from the Grande Prairie 
Seminary in Onarga, Illinois in 1914 and is now attending 
the Wesley training School for nurses in Chicago.  Dorothy, 
born in 1902 is now a junior in the Globe High School.

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