Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 2nd ed., 1885,
Butler Co.

MORRIS G. HAMMER, Butler County, was born July 3, 1827, in Montgomery 
County, Tenn.  His father, Elisha Hammer, was a citizen of Massachusetts, 
who emigrated from that State to Tennessee when a young man.  His 
marriage with Nellie Jordan occurred about 1819.  They were the parents 
of four children.  Morris G. Hammer was left an orphan at the age of 
eight years, and during the next nine years of his life he resided with 
a Mr. Richmond.  He had poor educational advantages in early life and 
attended school very little; but his reading has been to a purpose, and 
he transacts his business in a practical way, and with success.  At the 
age of seventeen he began life for himself; worked one year in the lead 
mines of Missouri, then for the next five years worked on a farm by the 
month.  On the 2d of January, 1850, he was united in marriage with 
Elizabeth Caudill, of Robertson County, Tenn.  They are the parents of 
nine children, six of whom are living: Caroline, wife of Charles Webster; 
Phoebe J., Lucinda, wife of Henry Jains; John W., Martha C., wife of 
Francis Drake, and Louisa E.  After marriage Mr. Hammer leased land and 
farmed for two or three years.  In 1853 he bought fifty acres in 
Robertson County, Tenn.; this he sold in 1855 and removed to Butler 
County, Ky., where he bought 124 acres, to which he has, by subsequent 
purchases, added 156 acres.  His farm of 280 acres is well improved, and 
in an excellent state of cultivation; a fine young orchard of 100 trees 
produces abundance of good fruit.  Mr. Hammer makes a specialty of 
raising grain and tobacco.  He was an active member of the order of P. 
of H., and is a member of the order of G. T.  He is a Republican, but is 
more interested in his farming interests than in politics.  He is 
liberal-minded and a patron of schools and educational enterprises.  He, 
his wife and four children are members of the Baptist Church.

Hammer Jordan Richmond Caudill Webster Jains Drake
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Montgomery-TN MA MO Robertson-TN

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