Biography of Herman M. Hamman, pages 943/944. History of DeKalb County, Indiana; B. F. Bowen & Company, Inc., Indianapolis, 1914. Herman M. Hamman To contemplate, however briefly, a successful career is always pleasant and profitable, in that it beings to view the greatest fundamental principles which form the true basis of character and exemplifies the practical intelligence and judgment, fertile resource and wise foresight which constitute such peculiar power and make the one in whom combined a master of himself, of his circumstances and his destiny. Herman M. Hamman was born on February 2, 1872, in Smithfield township, DeKalb county, Indiana, and is the son of Daniel F. and Harriett E. (Martin) Hamman, who are represented elsewhere in this work. The subject was reared on his father’s farm and lived there until his marriage in 1899, when he engaged in farming, where he now lives in section 3, Smithfield township. He has a well, improved and up-to-date farm and has achieved a splendid record as an agriculturist. In 1895 Mr. Hamman bought a threshing outfit and for eighteen years has followed this business during the season. In January, 1914, Mr. Hamman bought the Frank Hamman tile mill, which he will locate on his home farm. Progressive in his ideas, practical in his methods and observing the strictest rules of integrity in his dealings with his fellow men, Mr. Hamman has gained and retains to a marked degree the confidence and good will of all who know him. In 1899 Herman M. Hamman was married to Amanda Myers, who was born and reared in Franklin township, the daughter of Levi Meyers, and to them have been born three children: Magel Adell, born May 17, 1900, died November 6, 1900; Russell, born on February 2, 1902, and Howard, born on October 16, 1904. Mr. and Mrs. Hamman move in the best social circles of the community in which they reside, and because of their genial dispositions and upright lives they have earned and retain to a marked degree the esteem of all who know them. Submitted by: Arlene Goodwin Auburn, Indiana Agoodwin@ctlnet.com