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Dr Marion R Hammer Sr.

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Birth	:	26 Jan 1853 Jasper County, Iowa, USA
Death	:	11 Jul 1940 Newton, Jasper County, Iowa, USA
Burial	:	Saint Joseph Catholic Cemetery, Amherst, Lorain County, USA
Coordinate	:	41.3806000, -82.2388992
Plot	:	Sec11 Block 28 Lot 14
Description	:	Found in the history of the Newton Union Cemetery here: http://www.newtongov.org/Departments/PW/Public%20Works20 Homepage.vnu_website/files/Download/Cemetery%20History%20Printable%20Version.pdf A private mausoleum, or vault, was constructed by Dr. Marion R. Hammer. Because of the poor manner in which it was constructed, it was never used. Dr.Hammer also had a copper covered cyprus coffin built locally and it was placed in the community mausoleum. Dr. Hammer supervised the construction of the coffin, and several times he climbed into it to insure that it would properly fit. The coffin deteriorated in the mausoleum, and Dr. Hammer was buried in a massive glass casket when he died in 1940. Probably no person... Read More	Found in the history of the Newton Union Cemetery here: http://www.newtongov.org/Departments/PW/Public%20Works20 Homepage.vnu_website/files/Download/Cemetery%20History%20Printable%20Version.pdf A private mausoleum, or vault, was constructed by Dr. Marion R. Hammer. Because of the poor manner in which it was constructed, it was never used. Dr.Hammer also had a copper covered cyprus coffin built locally and it was placed in the community mausoleum. Dr. Hammer supervised the construction of the coffin, and several times he climbed into it to insure that it would properly fit. The coffin deteriorated in the mausoleum, and Dr. Hammer was buried in a massive glass casket when he died in 1940. Probably no person buried in Newton Union spent more time and effort planning for his own burial than Dr. Hammer. It is also important to add that he was not buried in the community mausoleum, as it had been torn down in 1931. The community mausoleum, containing 200 crypts, was constructed in 1910. It was "so firmly built that it would be almost impossible for the strongest cyclonic wind to harm it." In the fall of 1930 "one of the towers, erected on the corners of the building, toppled over and plunged through the roof, causing considerable wreck and ruin." This ended the controversy over the future of the rapidly deteriorating structure, and in 1931, the mausoleum was razed after the last of the forty bodies had been removed. It is still possible to see the outline of the foundation of the mausoleum between Blocks 14 and 15. From the 1894 book Portrait and Biographical Record of Jasper, Marshall and Grundy Counties, Iowa: MARION R. HAMMER, M. D., of Newton. The genealogy of the Hammer family, traced to the original emigrant in the United States, is as follows: In the early part of the eighteenth century, the progenitor of the family in America, who was a German by birth, emigrated to Bucks County, Pa. His son, Abraham, was born in that county in 1731, and in 1760 moved to North Carolina, where his children, four sons and three daughters, were born. The second of his sons, Isaac, was born in North Carolina, in 1764, and migrated to Tennessee, where were born by his first wife, Jesse, Elisha, Aaron and Jonathan; by his second wife, Lydia, Henry, Charity, Rachel, John, Nathan and Laban; by his third wife, Hannah, William, Joanna, Delila and Isaac A. Afterward he removed to Indiana and settled in Huntsville, where he died. Elisha, second son of Isaac, was born in North Carolina, May 1, 1789, and died in Iowa, May 21, 1847. His children, eleven in number, were all born in Jefferson County, Tenn., and were Mahlon, Seth, Henry, Jesse, Ira, Aaron, Elisha, Isaac, Susannah, Polly A. and Lydia. Jesse, the fourth son of Elisha, was born in Jefferson County, Tenn., October 4, 1820, and died at Richland, Iowa, September 2, 1873. He was four times married, and was the father of six daughters and eight sons. The two eldest, Aaron T. and John H., were by his first wife, and were born in Jefferson County, Tenn.; the other children were all born in Jasper County, Iowa. Those by his second wife were Elizabeth L., Marion R. (subject of this sketch), Samuel L., Jasper F., Martha E. and Mary E.; by his third wife were Alta E. and Etta N.; and by his fourth wife, James C., Frank V. and Jesse M. The Hammers, back to the first representative of the family in this country, have been identified with the Quaker faith, although the later generations have drifted away from that church. In1846 the father of our subject came to Jasper County and settled in Kellogg Township, where Marion R. was born January 26, 1853. At the age of eighteen years, he entered Hazel Dell Academy, at Newton, where he studied for ten terms. He then entered a Quaker school at Lynnville, and there spent two terms, during the former of which he was one of the assistant teachers in the institution. During the winter of 1873-74 he taught school at the Hammer Grove schoolhouse, in Kellogg Township, and in the following winter taught in the public schools of Rock Creek Township. In the winter of 1875-76, while teaching in Buena Vista Township, he also studied medicine, and in March, 1876, he commenced the practice of that profession at Adamsville, Iowa. The marriage of Doctor Hammer occurred October 22, 1876, and united him with Mary E. Dooley, of Adamsville, a native of that place. Soon after his marriage he entered the medical department of the Iowa State University, but did not graduate. In 1878 he went to Reasnor, Iowa, where he conducted an extensive practice until the spring of 1880. In the fall of that year he entered the College of Physicians and Surgeons of St. Joseph, Mo., but soon afterward there was a revolution in the college and he, with about fifty other students, left and entered the Northwestern College of that place. From that institution he was graduated February 17, 1881. Returning to Jasper County, the Doctor commenced the practice of his profession at Newton, where he now resides. For two years he served as Health Officer of Newton, and was a member of the Jasper county Medical Society from 1879 until 1884. He filled the Chair of Physiology in Kings Medical College, of Des Moines, from 1885 until 1889, resigning on the 6th of March of that year. He is the founder of the Hammer Genealogical Society, and was its first President and is now serving in that capacity. Socially he has been identified with the Knights of Pythias and the United Workmen, and is a demitted member of the Masonic fraternity. He has engaged in practice in various places in Jasper County, and came to Newton the last time in September, 1892. In January, 1893, he was appointed Physician to the Jasper County Jail. He has been prominent in the Order of Knights of Labor and was its Master Workman for one term, but declining a re-election, his wife was chosen in his place. They are the parents of two sons: Marion R., Jr., who was born in Jasper County, Iowa, August 27, 1878, and Jesse Marion, who was born in Plymouth County, Iowa, October 18, 1884.

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Where is Dr Marion R Hammer Sr.'s memorial?
Dr Marion R Hammer Sr.'s memorial is located at: Saint Joseph Catholic Cemetery, Amherst, Lorain County, USA.
When did Dr Marion R Hammer Sr. death?
Dr Marion R Hammer Sr. death on 11 Jul 1940 in Newton, Jasper County, Iowa, USA
Where are the coordinates of the Dr Marion R Hammer Sr.'s memorial?
Latitude: 41.3806000
Longitude: -82.2388992

Family Members:

Parent

(unknow - unknow)

Spouse

Mary Emma Dooley Hammer

(1856 - 1938)

Siblings

Aaron Thomas “Thomp” Hammer

(1843 - 1893)

John Henry Hammer

(1845 - 1928)

Jasper Fremont Hammer

(1856 - 1924)

Martha Ellen Hammer Guthrie

(1858 - 1946)

(1865 - unknow)

(1867 - 1871)

(1871 - 1874)

(1874 - 1954)

Children

Marion R Hammer

(1878 - 1961)

Jesse Marion Hammer

(1884 - 1954)

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Nearby Cemetories:

1. Saint Joseph Catholic Cemetery
Amherst, Lorain County, USA
Coordinate: 41.3806000, -82.2388992

2. Kendeigh Corner Cemetery
Amherst, Lorain County, USA
Coordinate: 41.3778000, -82.2514038

3. Crownhill Cemetery
Amherst, Lorain County, USA
Coordinate: 41.3941994, -82.2311020

4. Cleveland Street Cemetery
Amherst, Lorain County, USA
Coordinate: 41.4006004, -82.2197037

5. Evergreen Cemetery
South Amherst, Lorain County, USA
Coordinate: 41.3549995, -82.2455978

6. Pioneer Cemetery
South Amherst, Lorain County, USA
Coordinate: 41.3544006, -82.2407990

7. Elyria Jewish Cemetery
Elyria, Lorain County, USA
Coordinate: 41.3679428, -82.1899948

8. Middle Ridge Cemetery
Amherst, Lorain County, USA
Coordinate: 41.3972015, -82.1877975

9. Sanders Hill Cemetery
Henrietta, Lorain County, USA
Coordinate: 41.3456001, -82.2853012

10. Brownhelm Cemetery
Brownhelm, Lorain County, USA
Coordinate: 41.3863983, -82.3050003

11. Ridge Hill Memorial Park
Amherst, Lorain County, USA
Coordinate: 41.4143982, -82.1830978

12. Claus Cemetery
Brownhelm, Lorain County, USA
Coordinate: 41.4297500, -82.2699000

13. Browns Lake Road Cemetery
Vermilion-on-the-Lake, Lorain County, USA
Coordinate: 41.4268800, -82.2871000

14. Calvary Cemetery
Lorain, Lorain County, USA
Coordinate: 41.4227982, -82.1725006

15. Rugby Cemetery
Brownhelm, Lorain County, USA
Coordinate: 41.3755989, -82.3277969

16. Elmwood Cemetery
Lorain, Lorain County, USA
Coordinate: 41.4268990, -82.1744003

17. North Murray Ridge Cemetery
Elyria, Lorain County, USA
Coordinate: 41.3731003, -82.1500015

18. Saint Mary Cemetery
Elyria, Lorain County, USA
Coordinate: 41.3918991, -82.1367035

19. Salem Jewish Cemetery
Sheffield, Lorain County, USA
Coordinate: 41.4188770, -82.1479320

20. Henrietta Methodist Cemetery
Henrietta, Lorain County, USA
Coordinate: 41.3369446, -82.3280563

21. Andress Cemetery
Henrietta, Lorain County, USA
Coordinate: 41.3367000, -82.3317200

22. New Russia Township Cemetery
Oberlin, Lorain County, USA
Coordinate: 41.3025894, -82.1968536

23. Lorain County Infirmary Cemetery
Elyria, Lorain County, USA
Coordinate: 41.3470170, -82.1360670

24. South Murray Ridge Cemetery
Elyria, Lorain County, USA
Coordinate: 41.3375015, -82.1303024