Ancestors of James Byrne HAMMOND

Second Generation

2. Albert Leroy HAMMOND [scrapbook] was born 1, 2, 3 30 Aug 1878 in Ashland Co., Ohio. He died 3 10 Nov 1964. Albert married Agnes Mary BYRNE about Dec 1899 4. [Parents]    When Albert and Agnes met, he was a bicycle mechanic.  She worked at the Boston Store, a department store, in Chicago.       Albert founded the Chicago Steel & Wire company and was involved in it until 1928.  He paid his workers really well.  When a competing company would come out with a new product, he would hire some of the workers from that company.  Albert was paying close to $1 per hour compared to other companies paying around 50 center per hour.       He didn't like union workers.  One of his electricians was a union worker who one day refused to go and work on a live wire.  Albert literally threw him out.  The next day, union people came by with a machine gun and shot out all the windows.  Albert then went down to the union office to "beat the hell" out of the union boss, but prior to that some Republican political candidate intervened.    During World War II, Albert had a job with Link Belt Company where they manufactured artillery tubes.  Albert increased the production rate by developing a way that one man could work four lathes at a time, instead of just one.    [Preceding based upon interviews with James Byrne Hammond in 2004 and 2005].    Residence and employment per the US Federal Census: -1900:  newly married to Agnes and residing with brother Edgar and wife on 53rd street in Chicago. -1910:  residing on 812 Chestnut Street in Topeka, Kansas.  Albert is employed as a machinist at this time. -1920:  residing in Chicago, Illinois, where he is employed as a superintendant at the Steel Wire Co.  The family is renting at 5342 Drexel Ave. -1930:  residing in Chicago, Illinois, where he is employed as a supertintendant at "box factory."  The family lives at 5436 Ingleside Ave which they own.

3. Agnes Mary BYRNE [scrapbook] 1 was born 1, 2, 3 29 Jan 1873 in La Salle, La Salle Co., Illinois. She died 3 21 Aug 1948. [Parents] Agnes was shunned by the family for not marrying a Catholic.

They had the following children:

	M	i	Harry Earl HAMMOND [scrapbook] was born 1, 2, 3 10 Aug 1902 in Clifton, Greenlee Co., Arizona. He died 4 31 May 1989 in Hyattsville, Prince Georges Co., Maryland.    Harry developed polio, but was cured remarkably well.  He became a salesman.  During the depression he made a living selling insurance with the Chicago Tribune.  After that he went to work for the Winchester Simmons hardware company.  When Harry was 40 years old, Winchester Simmons went bankrupt.  Harry answered a newspaper ad for a salesman, and worked in that position for 15 years.  He finally worked for a company furnishing paint for stores.    [James Byrne Hammond interviews, 2004 & 2005]
	M	ii	Robert Alisen HAMMOND [scrapbook] "Bob" 1 was born 2, 3, 4 27 Aug 1904 in Clifton, Greenlee Co., Arizona. He died 5, 6 2 Dec 1984 in La Verne, Los Angeles Co., California.    When Bob was being born, there was a flood.  The doctor was reluctant to go out to the house for the birth.  This situation was remedied when Albert Leroy Hammond Sr. took the doctor at gunpoint to the house!  [James Byrne Hammond interview, August 2004]. Robert "Bob" Alison had no children.  Married Isabella UNKNOWN    Bob and his first wife Isabella went to South America before World War II where Bob taught athletics at a military academy in Bogata, Columbia.  Bob was a good athlete.  Isabella had a job as an operating room nurse.  The Germans "got down there" and didn't like Americans.    Bob married a second time to Ruth and ended up in California.  Ruth developed Alzheimers and would disappear from time to time.  The police got to know here and would pick her up and take her home.    Bob never had children.    [James Byrne Hammond interviews, 2004 & 2005].
	M	iii	Alan Clarence HAMMOND [scrapbook] "Al" 1 was born 2, 3, 4 28 Nov 1905 in Clifton, Greenlee Co., Arizona. He died 5 Apr 1976 in Chicago, Cook Co., Illinois.    Al got a degree in accounting soon after getting out of high school.  He supposedly married seven times, four of which were to the same girl.  Al worked at  the Electromotive Corporation in LaGrange, Illinois, where he was very successful.    He then worked for Milt Greenburg designing interior iceboxes.  He ended up as the head painter at a large hosptical with a dozen men working for him.       During the depression Al was out of work.  He went to the racetrack and opened up his own booking business, but soon afterwards the "syndicate" walked in one day and told him he was "retired."       Al disliked the middle name Clarence, and referred to himself as Charles.  Al never had children.    [Preceding based on James Byrne Hammond interviews, 2004 & 2005]
	F	iv	Elizabeth Hayes HAMMOND [scrapbook] "Betty" 1 was born 2, 3, 4 12 Dec 1907 in Clifton, Greenlee Co., Arizona. She died 1 10 Oct 1999 in Wheeling, Cook Co., Illinois.
1	M	v	James Byrne HAMMOND was born 7 Jun 1912 and died 4 Feb 2007.
	M	vi	Franklin Cline HAMMOND II [scrapbook] "Frank" 1 was born 2, 3, 4 2 Jul 1914 in La Grange, Cook Co., Illinois. He died 5 19 Jan 1994 in Chapmansboro, Cheatham Co., Tennessee.
	M	vii	Albert Leroy HAMMOND Jr [scrapbook] "Bud" 1 was born 1, 2 22 Dec 1918 in Chicago, Cook Co., Illinois. He died 2, 3 5 Mar 1968 in Los Angeles Co., California.    Albert worked for the Sante Fe Railroad.  The man he worked for invented the "gas crew car" but died, so Albert finished it.  Albert moved to La Grange, Illinois (Chicago suburb), then to Maplewood Ave in Chicago.  [James Byrne Hammond interview, September 2005].

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