Lake County IN Archives Biographies.....Hammond, Walter H. 1873 - 
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Author: T. H. Ball (1904)

WALTER H. HAMMOND.

    Walter H. Hammond, who is one of the prominent real estate and insurance men
of Hammond, has spent almost his entire life in this city, and has for several
years been accounted one of its most progressive and enlightened business men.
He is a son of one of the pioneers of this city, and is connected with the
family which gave Hammond its name and its greatest industry.

    Mr. Hammond was born in Detroit, Michigan, October 26, 1873, being a son of
Thomas and Helen (Potter) Hammond, natives of Massachusetts. His paternal
grandfather was a native of Massachusetts, of English descent, and had a large
family. His maternal grandfather was a native of the same state. Thomas Hammond
was a carpenter by trade, and followed that pursuit in the east. He came to
Detroit, Michigan, when a young man, and was engaged in the meat business there
until 1875, in which year he came to Hammond, Indiana, and became connected with
George H. Hammond & Company. This well-known packing company at the beginning
employed a force of about fifty men, but later increased it to nearly two
thousand. The business was carried on in Hammond until May, 1903, when it was
moved to Chicago. Thomas Hammond is now president of the Commercial Bank of
Hammond, and is also engaged in the real estate business. He was congressman
from this district for one term during the Cleveland regimen, and also served as
mayor of Hammond for six years and as alderman for four years. He was originally
a Methodist, and his wife is a Baptist. They had five children, two sons and
three daughters: Elizabeth E., deceased; Carrie, wife of W. A. Hill, of Hammond;
Walter H; Frank; and Edith.

    Mr. Walter H. Hammond was about four years old when he came to Hammond, and
has lived here the rest of his life. He graduated from the high school in 1892,
after which he attended Oberlin College. He then took a business course in the
Metropolitan Business College in Chicago, and shortly afterward engaged in the
real estate and insurance business, which he has continued with increasing
success to the present time. He is president of the Home Building and Loan and
Savings Association of Lake county, and is the owner of considerable city
property in addition to his nice residence at 704 South Hohman street, which he
built in 1902.

    June 17, 1896, Mr. Hammond married Miss Miami J. Laws, a daughter of John
and Eliza Laws. They have three children, Harold W., Florence E. and Kenneth H.
Mr. and Mrs. Hammond are members of the First Baptist church, and he is a church
trustee. He affiliates with Garfield Lodge No. 569, F. & A. M., with Hammond
Chapter No. 117, R. A. M., and with Hammond Commandery, K. T. In politics he is
a Democrat.


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ENCYCLOPEDIA
OF
Genealogy and Biography
OF
LAKE COUNTY, INDIANA,
WITH A COMPENDIUM OF HISTORY 
1834—1904

A Record of the Achievements of Its People in the Making of a Commonwealth and
the Founding of a Nation.

REV. T. H. BALL
OF CROWN POINT, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
ILLUSTRATED
CHICAGO   NEW YORK
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
1904


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