"History of Cottonwood and Watonwan Counties of Minnesota, 1916"



Milton H. Hammond, cashier of the Security State Bank of St. James, & half-brother of the late Gov. Winfield Scott Hammond, of Minnesota, and one of the most prominent figures in the financial life of this section of the state, is a native of Massachusetts, born at Southborough, that state, May 31, 1887, son of John W, and Josephine (Hastings) Hammond, the former of whom was born at Bridgewater, New Hampshire, and the latter at Framingham, Massachusetts.

John W. Hammond received an academic education and became an engineer, settling at Southborough, which was his home for about fifty years and where he was for years the owner of a jute mill. He was twice married; by his first wife, Ellen Handing, having had one child, a son, Winfield Scott Hammond, late governor of Minnesota, further mention of whom is made elsewhere in this volume. By his second marriage he had two children, of whom the subject of this sketch is the elder, the latter having a younger sister, Alice W., who married Charles H. Sturtevant and now lives at Detroit, Michigan. The mother of these children died in 1890 and her husband survived until January 14, 1906.

Milton H. Harnmond was reared in his native town, receiving his schooling in the public schools of that place, supplementing that course by a further one in a business college at South Framingham. In 1906, following the death of his father, he came to Minnesota to join his half-brother, Winfield S. Hammond, at St. James, and shortly after his arrival there, was made a clerk in the Security State Bank of St. James. Three years later he was made assistant cashier of the bank and in 1912 was elected cashier of that institution, a position which he now occupies, long having been recognized as one of the ablest young bankers in this part of the state, Mr. Hammond is a Democrat and ever since coming to Minnesota has taken an active interest in local political affairs. In June, 1916, he served as a delegate from this district to the national Democratic convention at St. Louis.

In 1910 Milton H. Hammond was united in marriage to Hazel McSteen, daughter of J. E. McSteen, of St. James. Mr. and Mrs. Hammond are members of the Episcopal church and take art active interest in the various beneficences of the same, as well as in all local good works, and are accounted as among the leaders in the general social and cultural life of the community. Mr. Hammond is a Knight Templar Mason and a Knight of Pythias, as well as a member of the Royal Arcanum, the Equitable Fraternal Union and the Modern Brotherhood of America, in the affairs of which several organizations he takes a warm interest.



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