Jane HAMMOND

Jane married William W. MOORE on 09 Sep 1852. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Excerpt from "History and Genealogies of the Hammond Families in America Vol. 2":

He was the founder of the great iron industry at Crown Point, N. Y., and was also interested in the greatest lumber business in Northern New York. He started in life with very poor health and only a few hundred dollars in money, but by industry and great foresight accumulated a large fortune. The iron from which the "Monitor" was built was taken from his mines, as was also the ore from which was made the first Bessemer steel ever manufactured in the United States.

He was a Whig, and afterwards a Republican in politics. His political convictions were very strong, and he was an active worker in his party, but he never held any office except postmaster, which office he held many years. At the breaking out of the civil war he advanced the money to purchase all the horses for Co. H, 5th N. Y. Cavalry, and took an active interest in organizing the company. After the close of the war he erected a beautiful monument at a cost of about $6,000 in the Park at Crown Point, bearing the inscription, "To the memory of the heroic volunteers of Crown Point, who gave their lives as a sacrifice for their country and humanity in suppression of the great rebellion of 1861-66, this monument is erected by their grateful fellow-citizen, C. F. Hammond."

At his death he left his homestead in Crown Point to the town for a chapel and library. He was never a member of any religeous denomination, but was a regular church attendant, and much interested in all kinds of practical Christian work. He was a strong temperance man and did much effective work against the evils of intemperance.

Charles married Jane RENNE on 13 Feb 1825 in Crown Point, New York. Jane was born on 17 Jan 1805 in Cairo, Greene County, New York; died on 28 Aug 1882 in Crown Point, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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