Charles M. Hammond Biography


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CHARLES M. HAMMOND, stock raiser and agriculturist, residing on section 
34, township 118, range 67, is one of the successful men of his calling 
in Faulk county, and enjoys a wide acquaintance and an enviable 
reputation for honesty and integrity. He is a native of Mauston, Juneau 
county, Wisconsin, and was born August 17, 1866. 

On the father's side the family is of Welsh descent and on the mother's 
side of Yankee. The grandfather of our subject bore the name of John 
Hammond, and the father of our subject, T. Jefferson Hammond, was a 
native of New York. He served four years in the Civil war and had two 
brothers in the same service. He settled in Wisconsin after his 
marriage and engaged in farming. The mother of our subject, whose 
maiden name was Clara Boyden, was born in New York state, and was the 
daughter of Moses Boyden, a distiller. She had five brothers in the 
Civil war, one of whom was killed in the battle of Gettysburg. 

Our subject was fifth in a family of eight children, and was raised on 
a farm and attended the country schools. At the age of sixteen he left 
home and started for himself. He went to Spink county, South Dakota, in 
1882, and worked two months by the day in Ashton, and next went to 
Elkton and worked at grading on the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy 
railroad. He stayed at Elkton two years, but most of the time was 
employed on a farm, and in 1884 went to Hamlin, where he worked on a 
large wheat farm until 1885 and then went to Faulk county and located a 
homestead on section 34, township 118, range 67, where he made his 
home. He and his wife together had about six hundred dollars in money 
and he paid four hundred and forty dollars for a team and thirty-five 
dollars for a cow and purchased a plow, seeder and drag on time. He is 
now the possessor of three hundred and twenty-six acres of land, of 
which one hundred and eighty is under cultivation and the remainder is 
grass land. He has a pasture of three hundred and twenty acres and 
engages mostly in raising cattle and horses. His first five or six 
years in Dakota were devoted to grain raising with little success and 
he has changed to stock raising. He keeps nineteen milch cows and 
carries about fifty head of cattle the year round. He lost five or six 
head of cattle during the severe storm of the winter of '97. A good 
well, with windmill attached, furnishes an abundance of water and 
facilitates the work of the place. His residence, erected in 1897, 
upright 14 x 28 feet, with lean-to 24 x 20 feet, is a model of 
convenience and comfort, and is one of the best in the locality. His 
barns, one 24 x 36 feet and one 46 x 64 feet, contemplated for the near 
future, including attached buildings, are substantial and convenient. 
The old shanty which served them the welcome purpose of a home has been 
converted into a granary. Success has attended his every effort and he 
is now one of the well-to-do farmers of his township. 

Mr. Hammond was married November 14, 1885, to Miss Jennie L. Foster, a 
native of Door county, Wisconsin. Mrs. Hammond is the daughter of 
Abijah and Jane Foster, the former of Yankee and the latter of Irish 
descent: Her father was a wealthy miller and lumberman of Wisconsin, 
and had accumulated an estate valued at one hundred thousand dollars, 
at the time of his death. This estate was divided between a family of 
seven children. Both parents died when Mrs. Hammond was but a young 
girl, but she was given a good education and was a teacher in Wisconsin 
and later in Dakota, and was a teacher in the latter state when she 
married our subject. She is a lady of high attainments and presided 
over her household with true womanliness. Six children have been born 
to bless the home of Mr. and Mrs. Hammond, as follows: Hattie, born in 
1886; Grace, born in 1888; Esther; Hannah; Blanch; and Thomas J. Mr. 
Hammond is a member of the Knights of Maccabees. Previous to 1896 he 
was a Democrat in political belief, since which time he has cast his 
vote with the Republican party. He takes an active part in local 
affairs, and was township assessor in 1897-98. He is strong in his 
convictions, and is well versed on the topics of the day, and stands 
firmly for the right, and well deserves his popularity and success.