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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 borethe 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
marriageand 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, adistiller. She had five brothers in the
Civil war, one of whom was killed inthe 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, township118, range 67, where he made his
home. He and his wife together had about sixhundred 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 ontime. 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 weredevoted 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 theyear 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 abundanceof 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. Successhas attended his every effort and he
is now one of the well-to-do farmers ofhis 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 educationand was a teacher in Wisconsin
and later in Dakota, and was a teacher in thelatter state when she
married our subject. She is a lady of high attainmentsand 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. Previ
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