Benton Co., AR - Biographies - David R. Hammer

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SOURCE:  Goodspeed Publishers, 1890.
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David R. Hammer, mayor of Siloam Springs, Ark., was born in Champaign County, Ill., March 10,
1840, and is a son of Daniel and Polly Ann (Childers) Hammer. The former was born in Tennessee in
1807, and was reared and educated in Ohio. He learned the cooper's trade after he was grown, and
moved to Illinois, where he was married about 1830. He removed to Iowa about 1849 and [p.842]
followed the occupations of farming and coopering. He died in Des Moines about 1869. His wife was
born in Ohio, and died in 1843, having borne five children: Nancy Jane (deceased). Elizabeth A.,
Polly Ann, David R. and Charity A., wife of William M. Moore. After his wife's death Mr. Hammer
married Mrs. Mary A. (Shepherd) Littler. She was born in 1807 in Ohio, and became the mother of
five children by her first husband, and one by Mr. Hammer: John J., a minister living in
Wisconsin, David, Laban (deceased), Henry, Anna (deceased) and Martha J. Hammer, the wife of R.
E. Barrickman. David R. Hammer was taken to Iowa when he was about seven years of age, and was
educated in the common schools of that State. He was married in Warren County, February 18, 1860,
to Phoebe A. Smith, a native of Belmont, Ohio, born November 27, 1840. Her grandparents were
Georgians, and located in Ohio during the early history of that State. Mrs. Hammer is the mother
of one child, Alkanzer H., who is a barber, living in Siloam Springs. In 1861 Mr. Hammer enlisted
in the Union army in Company B, Tenth Iowa Infantry, and after serving nine months was discharged
on account of disability. He lived in Iowa until 1887, when he moved to Western Texas, where he
was engaged in merchandising for two years; then went to Kansas, remaining the same length of
time. Since that time he was engaged in merchandising in Siloam Springs for one year, and is now
engaged in the real estate business. He has been elected mayor three different times. He is a
Republican and Mason.