Biography of John Hamman, pages 616 / 617.  History of De Kalb County, 
Indiana.  Inter-State Publishing Company, Chicago, 1885.

John Hamman was born in Stark County, Ohio, May 18, 1817, a son of David 
Hamman, a native of York County, Pa., who emigrated to Stark County, prior 
to the war of 1812.  In 1837 our subject left home and explored the northern 
part of Indiana, visiting De Kalb County in his travels.  In 1844 he again 
came to De Kalb County and remained two months, and while here bought a 
tract of wild land on section 19, Franklin Township.  In 1847 he moved his 
family to their frontier home, and began to make a farm out of a tract of 
timber land.  How well he has succeeded is proven by a visit to his pleasant 
home and viewing his 101 acres of cultivated, valuable land.  Mr. Hamman was 
married May 22, 1839, to Margaret Frick, daughter of Henry Frick.  Mrs. 
Hamman died in September, 1850, leaving five children---Simeon, Daniel, 
John, Franklin and Sarah.  The latter died at the age of thirty-three years.  
Nov. 25, 1852, Mr. Hamman married Anna Clark, a native of Stark County, Ohio, 
daughter of David Clark, and early settler of De Kalb County.  They have had 
eight children, five of whom are living---Susan, Clara E., Freeman, Commodore 
P. and Hamilton C.  One daughter, Francelia, died at the age of twenty-four 
years.  Mr. Hamman’s sons, Simeon and Daniel, were soldiers in the war of 
the Rebellion.  Mr. Hamman is a member of the Presbyterian and his wife of 
the Methodist Episcopal church.

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Arlene Goodwin
Auburn, Indiana
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