James Knox Polk HAMMOND

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30 June 1849 , Milledgeville, Georgia, USA

Died

28 December 1902 , Griffin, Spalding Georgia, USA

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John HAMMOND Caroline Susannah FORT

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Born: 30 June 1849 in Milledgeville, Georgia, USA

Father: John HAMMOND

Mother: Caroline Susannah FORT

Paternal grandparents: Abner HAMMOND , Sarah DUDLEY

Maternal grandparents: Moses "Tomlinson" FORT , Eudocia Walton MOORE

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James Knox Polk married Mary Ella HULL 25 April 1877 in Georgia, USA . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Mary Ella HULL was born 30 August 1853 in Athens, Georgia, USA. Mary Ella died 17 November 1902 in Savannah, Georgia, USA. Mary Ella was the child of Henry HULL and Katharine Anna Maria THOMAS.

James Knox Polk HAMMOND died 28 December 1902 in Griffin, Spalding Georgia, USA.

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Mary Ella HULL
Marriage date: 25 April 1877
Marriage place: , Georgia, USA
Mary Ella HULL was the child of Henry HULL and Katharine Anna Maria THOMAS

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Grattan HAMMOND

Born: 20 August 1882, Savannah, Georgia, USA
Died: 4 November 1956, Orlando, Florida, USA

Married: Laurie Amelia NEEL 3 June 1909

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Birth — 1849
30 June 1849
Milledgeville, Georgia, USA

1850 - Millard Fillmore becomes President of the United States

1853 - Franklin Pierce becomes President of the United States

1857 - Toilet paper is invented (Joseph Gayetty, United States)

1857 - James Buchanan becomes President of the United States

1857 - March 6 – Dred Scott v. Sandford: The Supreme Court of the United States rules that Blacks are not citizens and slaves can not sue for freedom, driving the country further towards the American Civil War.

1858 - March 30 - H. L. Lipman, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, patented the first pencil with eraser

1861 - February 8 – American Civil War: The Confederate States of America are formed, comprising the first six break-away states.

1861 - Abraham Lincoln becomes President of the United States

1863 - January 1 - President Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, freeing slaves.

1863 - October 3 – President Lincoln proclaims a national Thanksgiving day to be celebrated the final Thursday in November in the United States

1863 - November 19 – American Civil War: U. S. President Abraham Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address at the military cemetery dedication ceremony in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

1864 - Pasteurization is invented (Louis Pasteur, France)

April 14, 1865 - President Abraham Lincoln was mortally wounded by John Wilkes Booth at in Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. He died the next day. Andrew Johnson becomes President of the United States.

1868 - The typewriter is invented (Christopher Latham Sholes, United States)

Thomas Edison applies for his first patent, the electric vote recorder.

1869 - Ulysses S. Grant becomes President of the United States

1870 - June 26 - Christmas becomes a Federal holiday in the United States. It was still illegal in some states.

1876 - March 7 – Alexander Graham Bell is granted a United States patent for an invention he calls the telephone.

1877 Marriage / Partner
James Knox Polk HAMMOND and Mary Ella HULL 25 April 1877, , Georgia, USA

He was 27 years old.

1877 - Rutherford B. Hayes becomes President of the United States

1877 - November 21 - Thomas Edison announces his invention of the phonograph, a machine that can record sound.

1879 - Incandescent light bulb is invented (Thomas Alva Edison, United States)

1881 - The American Red Cross is established by Clara Barton.

1881 - March 4 - James A. Garfield becomes President of the United States

1881 - July 2 - James A. Garfield was shot at the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Station in Washington, D.C., at 9:30 am on Saturday, July 2, 1881. He died in Elberon, New Jersey, two months later on September 19, 1881. The shooting occurred less than four months into his term as president. Charles J. Guiteau was convicted of Garfield's murder and executed by hanging one year after the shooting. Chester Arthur becomes President of the United States.

1882 Birth of Child
Grattan HAMMOND was born 20 August 1882, Savannah, Georgia, USA

James Knox Polk was 33 years old.

1884 - Photographic film is invented (George Eastman, United States)

The first gravity roller coaster amusement ride (LeMarcus A. Thompson, United States)

1885 - Grover Cleveland becomes President of the United States

1886 - October 28 - Statue of Liberty is Unveiled

1889 - The automobile is invented (Gottlieb Daimler, Germany)

1889 - Benjamin Harrison becomes President of the United States

1891 - The zipper is invented (Whitcomb L. Judson, United States)

The motion picture camera is invented (Thomas Alva Edison, William K.L. Dickson, United States)

First Perforated Toilet Paper Roll is Patented

1893 - Grover Cleveland becomes President of the United States

1897 - Aspirin is invented (Felix Hoffmann (Bayer), Germany)

1897 - William McKinley becomes President of the United States

1898 - April 25 – Spanish-American War: The United States declares war on Spain

1898 - December 10 – The Treaty of Paris is signed, ending the Spanish-American War.

1901 - King Camp Gillette and William Emery Nickerson invented the world's first disposable razor blade in 1901. (Boston, Massachusetts, USA)

1901 - William McKinley, the 25th president of the United States, was shot on the grounds of the Pan-American Exposition in the Temple of Music in Buffalo, New York, on September 6, 1901, six months into his second term. He was shaking hands with the public when an anarchist, Leon Czolgosz, shot him twice in the abdomen. Theodore Roosevelt becomes President of the United States.

Obituary
OBITUARY

JAMES POLK HAMMOND

GRIFFIN, GA., December 28, 1902. At a few moments past 4 o'clock this afternoon Mr. James Polk Hammond died in his chair at his home on Tenth Street, while in conversation with his friend, Capt. H. S. Watt. His death came suddenly and the only prelude to it was a violent coughing spell that ended in heart failure.

His health has not been good for weeks but it was supposed that he was normally well up to the time of his death.

In 1884 he lost his eyesight and since that time has been a helpless but cheerful invalid, his devoted sons furnishing the eyes he so badly needed. He was never heard to murmur or complain at his distress and even when financial troubles beset him he was the same pleasant gentleman that he was in the days of his affluence.

Mr. Hammond came to Griffin in 1886 from Savannah, having been connected with Hammond, Hull, and Company, the largest cotton factors in Savannah. He dealt largely in guano and lost money but continued ...Read full story