Napa-San Francisco County CA Archives Biographies.....Hammer, Charle December 19, 1881 - 
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Author: S. J. Clarke (1928)

CHARLE HAMMER

   Among the skilled builders and successful contractors of San Mateo county,
none takes precedence over Charle Hammer, of Burlingame, who has through his
professional activities contributed in a very definite degree to the upbuilding
and development of his locality. He was born on his father's farm in Sweden on
the 19th of December, 1881, and was reared and educated in that country. In 1901
he came to the United States, locating in San Francisco, California, where he
learned the carpenter's trade under Ira W. Coleburn. In 1906 he entered the
employ of Ward & Goodwin, builders of hotels and apartment houses, remaining
with that concern for eight years, and then went to work for the Walker
Construction Company. During his five years' connection with that firm he worked
on a number of important building operations, serving as a foreman on the
construction of the Hotel Oakland, at Oakland, one of the best hotel buildings
in the state. He was with Munson Brothers as a straw boss on the construction of
the new city hall in San Francisco, which is conceded to be one of the finest
public buildings in California.

   During the entire period of this country's participation in the World war,
Mr. Hammer was employed in the building of furniture on the United States
destroyers in the Union Iron Works, and about eight years ago he came to
Burlingame and formed a partnership with Hugo M. Hultberg, under the firm name
of Hammer & Hultberg. They engaged in the building and selling of fine homes,
ranging in price from eight to twenty-three thousand dollars, and did a large
volume of business in that line until about two years ago, when the partnership
was dissolved. Since then Mr. Hammer has been operating alone, not only building
and selling houses, but also contracting, in both of which lines he is meeting
with very satisfactory success. He sold homes to W. J. French, Mr. Hollingshead,
Mr. Woodish and Charles I. Dix, and erected by contract the residences of W.
Johnson, Peter Logan, Dudley Poor, H. Frarick, Charles Acker and Captain
Hubbenette.

   On April 15, 1903, in San Francisco, Mr. Hammer was united in marriage to
Miss Freda Sterner, who is a native of Sweden, and they are the parents of two
children, Ethel, nineteen years of age, and Verna, eight years old. Mr. Hammer
is a member of Burlingame Lodge, No. 400, A. F. & A. M.; has received the
thirty-second degree in the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite, and belongs to the
Sciots. He is a member of the board of directors of, and serves as appraiser
for, the Burlingame Building and Loan Association. A man of sound business
judgment, great energy and absolute fairness in all of his dealings, he has long
commanded the confidence of the people of his community, and is regarded as one
of its representative men.

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CHICAGO, ILL. 
THE S. J. CLARKE PUBLISHING COMPANY
1928

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