JAMES G. HAMMELS
Arizona, The Youngest State, 1913, pg 698

Dairy interests of Maricopa County find a worthy representative 
in James G. Hammels, who is a dairyman by inheritance.  A native 
of Germany, he was born in Lenzen on the Elbe, near Hanover, in 
1863, and when he was two years of age was brought by his parents 
to the United States, settling in Cook County, near Chicago, 
Illinois in 1865.  There the father engaged in farming and 
dairying and upon the homestead James G. Hammels was reared 
to manhood.  He has been in Arizona since 1881, having after 
short stays at Tucson and Prescott settled in the Salt River 
Valley and purchased a ranch at Buckeye, later turning his 
attention to the live stock business.  Upon first coming to 
Glendale he raised grain on an extensive scale but afterward 
devoted his time to dairying and is now dividing his attention 
between that business and the breeding of high grade hogs and 
cattle.  He owns two forty acre ranches near the city and has 
built up one of the finest dairy herds in Arizona, his stable 
containing nearly five hundred Holstein cows.  These he leases 
to nearby farmers in small lots, thus relieving himself of the 
care of a large herd.

On the 29th of August 1893, Mr. Hammels was united in marriage 
to Miss Nellie M. Kendall, a native of Olmsted County, Minnesota 
and a daughter of John V. and Emily E. (Farrington) Kendall, who 
brought their family to Arizona in 1887 and settled in Phoenix.  
Mr. and Mrs. Hammels have three children: J. Vinton, Josephine 
E. and Helen G.

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