- SANFORD P. HAMMOND, retired farmer, Evansville; born in Connecticut
Sept. 9, 1808; he
- removed to Wisconsin 1839, and engaged in farming in Johnstown
Center; in the spring of 1844, he removed to Janesville; in 1845,
to Magnolia, where he engaged in farming and wool growing; in
1874, he sold out and removed to Union, where he managed a farm
until 1878, when he sold out and removed to Evansville, having
retired from all active pursuits. He was elected to the state
Constitutional Convention in 1846. Married, in Michigan, Feb.
11, 1839. Miss Elizabeth HINS, a native of Herkimer Co., N.Y.,
who died Feb. 29, 1869; he married again, at Magnolia, April
4, 1869, Mrs. Catharine A. BUDLONG, a native of England. Mr.
HAMMOND lived in the first log house built in the town of Center.
Is a member of the M.E. Church.
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- Taken from "The History of Rock County, Wis."
(c)1879, p. 864.
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- Courtesy of Carol
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