J. E. HAMMOND
Hammond's dairy, the pioneer one of the city, was established by him in 1873. A man by the name of Baldwin had peddled milk on the street previous to this, but J. E. Hammond was the first to embark in it as a business. He is a native of Michigan, but came to him [sic here] from Marshalltown, Iowa. He keeps about sixty head of cows, and supplies the better part of the town with the lacteal fluid.
J. E. Hammond was born in Cortland county, New York, in 1844, but his parents removed to Hillsdale, Michigan, while he was quite young. In the fall of 1866, he went to Marshall county, Iowa, where he was engaged as a laborer. In the spring of 1867, he was married to Amanda L. Havens, a native of Michigan, by whom he has two children--Nora and Maud. In 1869 he removed to Atlantic, where he followed the business of lathing for some three years, then embarking in the dairy business, which he still follows. Mr. Hammond was quite a poor man when he came to Cass county, but by hard work and close attention to business, he has acquired a competency, and to-day is among the well-to-do business men of the county. In 1878 he combined with his other business the breeding of Poland China hogs, to which he devotes much of his time. He is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and in politics is a staunch Republican.
Contributed by Lisa Varnes-Rex from "History of Cass County, Iowa. Together With Sketches of its Towns, Villages and Townships, Educational, Civil, Military and Political History: Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Old Settlers and Representative Citizens." Springfield, Ill.: Continental Historical Company, 1884, pg. 863.
