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Scope and Content of Collection
Title: Henry Nelson Hammond papers
Date (bulk): 1919-1922
Collection Number: 2014C23
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
1 manuscript box, 1 cubic foot box
(1.4 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Diaries, photographs, printed matter, and miscellany relating to American military operations in Hawaii, Siberia during the
Russian Revolution and in the Philippines.
Creator:
Hammond, Henry Nelson, 1900-1969
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives
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Materials were acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 2014.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Henry Nelson Hammond papers, [Box no.], Hoover Institution Library & Archives
Biographical Note
Corporal, United States Army; member, Company I, 27th Infantry Regiment, 1919-1922.
Henry Nelson Hammond (b. September 1, 1990 - d. April 11, 1969) was born in Traverse City, Michigan to Finely and Bertha Hammond.
Hammond began his military career in 1919 setting sail on the USAT Thomas (United States Army Transport) to San Francisco
from New York to Honolulu, Manila and Vladiovosk, Siberia which took over three years.
After the military, he moved back to Traverse City, Michigan and married Lillian Gain (d. March 16, 1953) and subsequently
married again to his last wife Ida. In 1926 he moved to Marshall, Michigan.
Hammond was a veteran of World War I with the Polar Bear Division serving in the US Army Expedition Forces in Siberia. In
addition, he became a member of the American Legion and the Veterans of Foreign Wars.
In his civilian life he owned a service station for several years and later sold it to begin a new business repairing and
selling water pumps. He also served as former City Commissioner of Marshall, Michigan.
Scope and Content of Collection
The collection contains the diaries, photographs and associated papers of Henry Hammond (1900-1969), a corporal in the U.S.
Army 27th Infantry Regiment, nicknamed the "Wolfhounds." The materials cover his enlistment and deployment in the Russian
Far East as part of the American Expeditionary Forces in Siberia. (A.E.F.)
The six handwritten journals offer a rare glimpse into the life of an American soldier stationed in Schofield Barracks, Hawaii
and Fort Shafter, Hawaii on to Siberia, the Philippines, and back to the U.S. from 1919 to 1922. Photographs that accompany
the diaries often have notes indicating the date, place and subject of the photograph.
The collection also includes a lockbox used by Hammond in Siberia, a memoranda book containing notes, rosters and addresses,
five photo albums, and a number of loose prints and associated papers, including Hammond's memorial book from his funeral
held on April 15, 1969.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
United States -- Armed Forces -- Philippines
Soviet Union -- History -- Allied intervention, 1918-1920
Siberia (Russia) -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921
United States. Army. Infantry Regiment, 27th
United States. Army. American Expeditionary Forces