James M. Hammen Biography - Grant County Wisconsin

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Submitted by David W. Taft, dtaft @ cowtown.net

History of Grant County Wisconsin
Western Historical Publishing, Chicago, July 1881
Town of Lancaster, Biographical Sketches, Page 890

JAMES M. HAMMEN, farmer and proprietor of the Lancaster mill, which was erected 
in 1860, Sec. 28; P. O. Lancaster.  Born in this county in 1838; settled on his 
present farm in 1879.  Married Myra Moore, a native of New York, and they have 
four children - Eugene, Jennie, Clara and Charles.  Mr. H. enlisted in Co. A, 2d 
Iowa V. C., in 1861, and resigned in 1862; was Quartermaster of regiment.