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F. HAMMOND, general agent for the Singer Sewing Machine; Bloomington; was born in London, England, July 27, 1840. He came to America in 1869; came West and located in Chicago, where he entered the employ of the Singer Manufacturing Co. as a machinist; he is a practical machinist. He was stationed for three years at Peoria, as general agent; from there he went to Bloomington and took charge of the Singer Co.’s office at 106 W. North street, which building, including the Phoenix Hotel and the corner north of the hotel, belongs to Mr. James Bolton, one of the members of the Singer Manufacturing Co. As an evidence of the extensive character of the Singer Sewing Machine enterprise it may not be inappropriate to mention that they employ 40,000 girls, women, boys and men in the manufacture and disposition of their machines; use 8,000 horses, and over 2,500,000 of their machines are in use. The company sold last year 366,000 machines, an excess of 73,000 over any preceding year, despite the hard times. Mr. Hammond has two sons connected with the general office in Chicago. F. W. Hammond is book-keeper, and N. C. Hammond is a machinist.