New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-01-28
JAMES B. HAMMOND DEAD
Was Head Of Typewriter Manu-
featuring Company.

81 Augustine. Eta. Jan. 27.-James i.
Hammond. head Of large typewriter
manufacturing firm. died suddenly here
to-day. He was on a yachting cruise for
the benefit Of his health
James Bartlett Hammond was born at
Boston April %. 1872 He was educated
a, the public schools OF Boston and the
University OF Vermont. from which ne
WAS graduated I'm 1861. In the civil war
Mr. Hammond was q correspondent for
The Tribune Vt one time, going from
Winchester 10 Iiarpor's Ferry. aitei
Sheridau's retreat, h" was captured by
hand OF Mosby's guerillas and sentenced
10 be shot for writing abolition Hes Tor
Horace Greeley" lie. however. escaped
during a sudden attack by Union forces.
After the war Mr. Hammond STUDIED
fo,. rho ministry at Union Theological
SEMINARY here. He continued his studies
I'm Germany, but was compelled 10 return
To- America ia broken health and dis
turbcd by difficult theological ana phiIo-
sophical questions. Mr.. Hammond had
become an expert stenographer. ana WhlI'
engaged N the translation and annexation
of thc Book Of Psalms found That the
,yorI, Of long hand was irksome. tie
studied ont plan FOR machine 'nf'
u.o.,ld relieve the labor OF the pen ana
Substitute mechanical for manual effort.
I-or manv years after beginning wor"
., his writing machine he suffered pov-
orr but nc persisted and produced. .n
,S-s a. machine that was later developed
into tho present day Hammond type
writer. tho first Of which was exhibited
in 1881
Mr. Hammond made a great deal oi
Nancy I'm the Hammond Typewriter com
many. OF which he was president. te
had his own ideas concerning the way
things should be done. and I'm consequence
figured I'm the newspapers To no smal eN-
ton, I'm the last six years In 1891. when
no vas sixtv-eight years old his brother.
Thomas T.. Hammond. who was in the
cash register business. declared that tn"
inventor was insane and caused him to
no arrested and taken To- Bellevue Hos
pi,al for examination.
Experts declared that Hammond was
insane after be had remained three days
in Bellevue. and asserted that his par
ticulor form OF insanity was permanent
That vas N April 1907. The following
poccmber Hammond returned to his
t,uevriter factory. in East G9th street,
after remaining nine months In sana-
torium.
lie had been awaiting The trial Of his
Gaze. aud Sheriffs jury had immedi-
atelv declared him sane.
In 1905 Mr. Hammond thought that he
was soon TO die, end no gave to certain
employees 500 shares OF the stock of the
Hammond Typewriter Company. When
,b. doct.rs told him he was not in dan
oar Of immediate death and he felt bet
,.r no brought suit to restrain his en-
nIoves from Gisposing of the stock
which had been distributed in his alb
sepcc IN Europe. Justice Giegerich de-
cided in Hammond's favor in 1909.
NJ Hammond had n big motorbodt
hut1t I'm 1911. and in it he started on a
c,,,iso which lie declared would last for
,v-antv-seven years. The Lounger II
called from New York in July and headed
,ou,b lie was going around the world
bv way Of Florida.
several Interruptions 10 the voyage oc-
Cured on the passage 60 Florida. and AZ
Jacksonville fire was discovered aboard
IN. Yacht and Mr. Hammond had "A mar
rov. escape The accident halted The in
,entor's tour OF the world