Caleb Wild Hammill (1863-1921) was one of the founders of the stockbrokerage and banking investment firm of
Shearson, Hammill & Co., founded in 1902 by Mr. Hammill &
Edward Shearson
Edward Shearson (August 3, 1864 - October 30, 1950) was a banker, millionaire and founder of Shearson, Hammill & Co., which was among the largest brokerage and investment banking firms in the United States.Harrison, Mitchell C. ed.Prominent and pr ...
. It was in existence from 1902 to 1974 under that original name.
Hammill was born in
Chicago, Illinois
(''City in a Garden''); I Will
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, and raised in
Albion, Michigan
Albion is a city in Calhoun County in the south central region of the Lower Peninsula of the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 8,616 at the 2010 census and is part of the Battle Creek Metropolitan Statistical Area.
The earliest English-s ...
, the ancestral town of his grandmother and great-grandparents. His parents were Caleb Wild & Elizabeth (Pine) Hammill. Hammill married Maude Echols of
Fort Smith, Arkansas
Fort Smith is the third-largest city in Arkansas and one of the two county seats of Sebastian County. As of the 2020 Census, the population was 89,142. It is the principal city of the Fort Smith, Arkansas–Oklahoma Metropolitan Statistical Are ...
in 1903.
Hammill died in
Paris
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,
France
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on July 19, 1921. He is interred in
Woodland Cemetery Woodland Cemetery may refer to:
* Woodland cemetery, a type of cemetery
or it may refer to specific places:
in Sweden
* Skogskyrkogården (The Woodland Cemetery) in Stockholm, Sweden
in the United States (by state)
* Woodland Cemetery (Quincy, I ...
in the
Bronx, NY
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.
References
Caleb W. Hammill Dead" New York Times, July 20, 1921, pg. 15.
" New York Times, August 18, 1921.
Caleb Wild Hammill" Find a Grave.
Wild Stockbroker had Albion Ties" Morning Star (Albion, Michigan), February 22, 2009.
1863 births
1921 deaths
Businesspeople from Illinois
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