. Pacific Gas and Electric magazine. s appreciated the service and considerationshown them, and rendered a rousing vote ofthanks to Pacific Service. I. B. Adams. 279 ^ Pacific Senuce Magazine. C^^f^^^^^^^^^^-y-^^^ In MEMORIAM —Charles Herbert Hammond Born October 24, 1850 It is only a few days since our friend wasamong us with cheery greetings, and nowhe is gone. Our friend has been taken fromus, but the benefits of his friendship willalways remain with us. Charles Herbert Hammond was born atWest Gouldsborough, Maine, October 24,1850; and his boyhood days were spentthere. At the age of twenty
. Pacific Gas and Electric magazine. s appreciated the service and considerationshown them, and rendered a rousing vote ofthanks to Pacific Service. I. B. Adams. 279 ^ Pacific Senuce Magazine. C^^f^^^^^^^^^^-y-^^^ In MEMORIAM —Charles Herbert Hammond Born October 24, 1850 It is only a few days since our friend wasamong us with cheery greetings, and nowhe is gone. Our friend has been taken fromus, but the benefits of his friendship willalways remain with us. Charles Herbert Hammond was born atWest Gouldsborough, Maine, October 24,1850; and his boyhood days were spentthere. At the age of twenty he shippedas a cabin boy and followed the sea forthree years. Finally landing in San Fran-cisco, he decided to make California hishome. He was variously employed until1877, when he became a lamplighter forthe San Francisco Gas Light Company. Inthose days the streets were lighted by flatflame burners in old-fashioned square lan-terns. Hammond liked this work, and lik-ing it he made a success of it, and so fa-miliarized himself with the location andproper care of the street lamps of the citythat upon the death of David P. Marshall,in 1894, Hammond succeeded him as Su-perintendent of La
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