This book has no cover, and no index, and no author. I bought it on Ebay; it just has the insides, but it is full of Indiana biographies. I am not researching this family, just thought I would share. I do not know anymore about these families or these surnames. NOTE: I don’t know if there is any additional mention of this family in the book, it has no index. I do not want to sell this book. I am typing the biographies from it.

Typed by Lora Radiches:



Surnames in this biography are: Hammond, Smith, Mathers,

Guido B. HAMMOND, M. D. The career of Dr. Guido B. Hammond is strongly entrenched in the medical history of Crawford County. The thriving little City of English, which witnessed the beginning of his professional career in 1903, offered a promising field for the young man of twenty-seven, and the citizens who have watched his progress have never had cause to regret the faith they placed in his energy, sincerity and genuine worth. He has grown into his environment’s opportunities, has fashioned his resources to its needs, and has reflected dignity, sincerity and great ability upon a profession for which he is singularly and even admirably equipped. Guido B. Hammond was born at English, Crawford County, Indiana, July 23, 1875, and is a son of Dr. H. C. and Mary A. (Smith) Hammond. His father was born January 1, 1846, on a farm in Orange County, Indiana, where he received his early education in the rural schools and was reared on a farm. He also taught school for a few years, while pursuing his education at Indiana State University. His ambitions lay along the line of a professional career, and eventually he enrolled as a student at the Indianapolis Medical College, from which he was graduated with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. For a number of years he was engaged in practice at English and became widely and favorably known in his profession, and likewise took an active and prominent part in public life and politics, representing his district in the State Legislature in 1881 and 1882. At the height of a brilliant career his death took place at English June 21, 1889, when he was only forty-three years of age. Doctor Hammond was a man of the highest character and a member of the Crawford County Medical Society, the Indiana State Medical Society and the American Medical Association. He married Mary A. Smith, who was born May 12, 1854, and died October 21, 1926, and they became the parents of three children: Guido B., of this review; Dr. Felix F., who is a successful doctor of dental surgery practicing at English; and Raleigh, who died in 1906. Guido B. Hammond attended the public schools of English, including the high school, and was but fourteen years of age at the time of his father’s death. However, his determination was the same as that which had imbued his father, and he managed to secure a professional education, first attending the Indiana University and then taking a course at the Kentucky School of Medicine (now the University of Louisville), from which he was graduated with the degree of Doctor of Medicine as a member of the class, of 1903. He immediately entered upon the practice of his profession at English, where he has since built up a large and lucrative practice in general medicine and surgery. He is perfectly at home in all departments of his calling and is a close student, a skilled diagnostician, an able practitioner and a reliable and steady-handed operator. He occupies a high position in his calling and is a valued member of the Crawford County Medical Society, the Indiana State Medical Society and the American Medical Association. He has always had supreme faith in real estate values at English, where he is the owner of several valuable business properties. Doctor Hammond is a Democrat and for a long period has been interested in party affairs, having been chairman of the county committee for years. His religious connection is with the Christian Church, and as fraternalism he is a Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner and Knight Templar and a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. As a friend of the public schools he has accomplished much in the capacity of the school board’s president, having at one time been a superintendent of schools himself in English, in 1898-1900. During the World war he displayed his loyalty and patriotism as president of the Medical Advisory Board of Crawford County. Doctor Hammond married, August 30, 1905, Miss Lulu Mathers, of Crawford County, Indiana, who died in April, 1909, without issue.