ROBERT E. HAMMOND, Sanders Volume III, Jefferson Co., MT USGENWEB NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. Files may be printed or copied for personal use only. "List transcribed and organized by Ellen Rae Thiel, thieljl@aol.com All rights reserved." Copyright, 1998 by Ellen Rae Thiel. This file may be freely copied for non-profit purposes. All other rights reserved. ROBERT E. HAMMOND: - pg 1348 From Sanders Volume III History of Montana published 1913 SURNAMES FOUND IN THIS BIOGRAPHY: GARD; RITCHART; An able lawyer and influential citizen, Robert E. Hammond has been identified with Montana for a quarter century and for the past ten years has had his office and residence in the city of Havre. Like many successful men, he began life as a school teacher, was a teacher in Montana during the territorial period, and by individual ability and a fine, integrity has attained his prominence. Mr. Hammond was born in Boyd county, Kentucky, September 17, 1859, attended the public schools there, and then began teaching in his native county. In 1887 he came out to Montana and continued his work of teaching in this state. He then took up the reading of law with one of the well known legal firms of Kalispell, and was admitted to the bar in that city in 1902 and began his practice there. The following year he located in Havre, and has since acquired a generous share of the legal business of this city and vicinity. Mr. Hammond has the distinction of having been a member of the constitutional convention which framed the first organic law for the state Montana in 1889. He represented Jefferson county in that body. Mr. Hammond's father was Robert Hammond, a Virginian by birth, who came over the mountains into Kentucky and was connected with the iron industry there. He was born in 1822 and died in 1900 at Boulder, Montana, having come to this state during his later years. The mother was Rebecca (Gard) Hammond, a native of Pennsylvania who moved with her parents in Kentucky, where she was married. She died in 1881 in Ohio, where she is buried. Robert E. Hammond was married at Radersburgh, Montana, June 12, 1889, to Miss Ella Ritchart, daughter of john Ritchart, of Radersburgh. Mr. and Mrs. Hammond are the parents of two children: Lillian, who was born at Radersburgh, July 7, 1890, is a graduate of the Hamline University; Maurice Eugene, who was born at Kalispell, March 18, 1903, is attending school at Havre. Mr. Hammond is a member of the Masonic blue lodge at Kalispell. In politics he is Republican, and his church is the Methodist. During the busy years of his career in this state he has always been very fond of outdoor life, especially of hunting and fishing. He has many warm friends in different parts of the estate, and has an unwavering affection for Montana and its welfare.