Caleb Wild Hammill was one of the founders of the stockbrokerage and banking investment firm of Shearson, Hammill & Co.

Shearson, Hammill & Co.

Shearson, Hammill & Co. was a Wall Street brokerage and investment banking firm founded in 1902 by Edward Shearson and Caleb Wild Hammill. The firm originally built its business as a stock broker as well as a broker of various commodities, particularly grain and cotton...

, founded in 1902 by Mr. Hammill & Edward Shearson

Edward Shearson

Edward Shearson was a banker, millionaire and founder of Shearson, Hammill & Co., which was among the largest brokerage and investment banking firms in the United States....

. It was in existence from 1902 to 1974 under that original name.

Hammill was born in Chicago, Illinois, and raised in Albion, Michigan

Albion, Michigan

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, the ancestral town of his grandmother and great-grandparents. His parents were Caleb Wild & Elizabeth (Pine) Hammill. Hammill married Maude Echols of Fort Smith, Arkansas

Fort Smith, Arkansas

Fort Smith is the second-largest city in Arkansas and one of the two county seats of Sebastian County. With a population of 86,209 in 2010, it is the principal city of the Fort Smith, Arkansas-Oklahoma Metropolitan Statistical Area, a region of 298,592 residents which encompasses the Arkansas...

 in 1903.

Hammill died in Paris

Paris

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, France

France

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 on July 19, 1921. Caleb is interred in Woodland Cemetery

Woodland cemetery

A woodland cemetery is a cemetery where the original landscape with existing trees has been given much influence on the landscape architecture of the cemetery, and where the graves are fitted in among the trees. A woodland cemetery is designed so that the landscape is given a more prominent...

 in the Bronx, NY, Crown Grove South Lot 4824, Section 22.