Theodore Morell HAMMOND

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• Census: 1880, Living with parents in Milwaukee, Milwaukee Co., Wisconsin
• Census: 1900, Living in Wauwatosa, Milwaukee Co., Wisconsin

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He removed with his parents to Janesville, Wis., in 1867, and to Milwaukee, in 1874. In July 1880 he removed to Chicago, and took the Latin Scientific Course in the old University of Chicago. He graduated in 1885 with the Degree of B.S., winning the Anderson English Essay prize and enjoying the title of class poet.

In the Fall of 1885 he was chosen Principal of the City High School at Sandwich, Ill., where he remained during the school year. He then abandoned teaching, and soon afterwards engaged in the coal business in Chicago, where he now resides. Beside the coal business, he engages to some extent in newspaper correspondence, and in literary and social work, being President of the Plymouth Club, composed of young men.

At its organization, Mr. Hammond was chosen by the Trustees to the University Factor, - the Business Department, - of the new University of Chicago, and entered upon the responsible duties thereof Aug. 1, 1892.

He m. at Milwaukee, Wis., Jun. 14, 1888, Fannie Loring Merrick, daughter of Lewis Merrick, formerly of Worcester and Monson, Mass.

Theodore married Fannie Loring MERRICK on 14 Jun 1888 in Milwaukee, Milwaukee Co., Wisconsin. Fannie was born on 29 Dec 1863 in Worcester, Massachusetts; died on 15 May 1947 in Milwaukee, Milwaukee Co., Wisconsin; was buried in Wauwatosa Cemetery, Wauwatosa, Milwaukee Co., Wisconsin. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Lewis Merrick HAMMOND was born on 11 Apr 1889 in Wisconsin.
2. Ralph Perry HAMMOND was born on 28 Nov 1891 in Wisconsin.
3. Loring T. HAMMOND was born in Jan 1899 in Wisconsin.

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• Census: 1860, Living in Clinton, Rock Co., Wisconsin
• Census: 1880, Living in Milwaukee, Milwaukee Co., Wisconsin
• Census: 1900, Living in Chicago, Cook Co., Illinois
• Census: 1910, Living in Chicago, Cook Co., Illinois

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Lewis Morelle Hammond, born in Lawrence, St. Lawrence Co., New York, lived there, and in Potsdam, New York, until the spring of 1853, when he removed to Clinton, Wis., where he remained the next ten yers. In 1868 he moved to Janesville, and was engaged in the Internal Revenue Dept. until Nov. 1873; then moved to Milwaukee and engaged in life insurance; in 1880 removed to Chicago, where he has since resided, having been for the last seven years a coal shipper. Business and pleasure trips have taken him to nearly every State and Territory in the Union. In the Summer of 1888 he took a trip through Continental Europe, returning to business in the Fall of that year.

Lewis Morelle m. Apr. 27, 1858, Esther L. Willis at Clinton Junction, Wisc., who d. Jan. 10, 1888 at Chicago.

Lewis married Esther L. WILLIS. Esther (daughter of Gilbert Norwood WILLIS and Lovisa TALLMAN) was born about 1837 in New York; died on 10 Jan 1888 in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States; was buried in Clinton Cemetery, Clinton, Rock Co., Wisconsin. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1850, Living with parents in Clinton, Rock Co., Wisconsin
• Census: 1860, Living with husband in Clinton, Rock Co., Wisconsin
• Census: 1880, Living with husband in Milwaukee, Milwaukee Co., Wisconsin