BIO: (Judge) Clark H. Hammond; Buffalo, Erie, Co., NY

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History of Northwestern New York: Erie, Niagara, Wyoming, Genesee and
Orleans Counties.
Lewis Historical Pub. Company, pub. about 1947 (?)
Vol. 3 Biographies

CLARK H. HAMMOND
Widely known in professional and public life in this region of New York State,
Clark H. Hammond has distinguished himself as a lawyer and judge. He makes his
home in Buffalo.

Mr. Hammond was born February 23, 1875, in Farnham, town of Brant, Erie
County, New York, son of William W. arid Louise A. (Hurd) Hammond.

In boyhood he attended Grammar School No. 10, and was graduated from that
school, then from Angola Academy. He received his legal education at the
University of Buffalo, where he received the degree of Bachelor of Laws in
1897 and that of Master of Laws in 1911. Admitted to the New York State bar on
July 29, 1897, Judge Hammond became a member of the firm of Hammond and
Hammond in that year, so continuing until 1909. From igio to 1920 he was with
Hammond and Hinkley. From 1921 to 1937 he was with Hull and Hammond. Hull,
Hammond and Goldstein, an outgrowth of Hull and Hammond, came into existence
in 1938 and continued under the same style to the year 1946, when it became
Hammond, Goldstein, De Marchi and Farrell, which continues to the present
time.

Mr. Hammond was a partner with his father, in Buffalo, until he was elected
judge of the municipal court of Buffalo in 1904. For six years, through 1909,
he was a municipal court judge. Then, from 1910 through 1913, he was
corporation counsel of the city of Buffalo. Both of those offices were
elective, not appointive. Mr. Hammond's law offices are at No. 39 Erie Street,
Buffalo. He is a member of the Erie County Bar Association, the Lawyers’ Club
of Buffalo and other groups, and has lectured before the law department of the
University of Buffalo. He is a member of the Buffalo Club and the Buffalo
Automobile Club. In the Congregational Church he is an ex-moderator of the New
York State Conference, as well as an ex-moderator of the First Pilgrim
Congregational Church of Buffalo and a member of its board of deacons.

In 1898 Judge Hammond married Susan E. Valentine. They live at No. 699
Lafayette Avenue, Buffalo.