Miles M. Hammond, a grocer of this city, was born in South Carolina in 1820, and came to Tennessee with his parents in 1829. He is the son of William and Elizabeth R. (Morgan) (Powell) Hammond. His father farmed in early life, and afterward engaged in the manufacture of wagons. He departed this life in 1874, his wife dying in 1843. The father married for his second wife a Miss Hern. His third wife is yet living. Our subject was reared to early manhood on the farm, and educated in the country schools. At the age of eighteen he began learning the blacksmith trade at Parker's Cross roads, remaining there about two years; then came to this city, and in partnership with Abner Teague ran a shop, afterward taking John H. Day as a partner. After engaging in the blacksmith business about twelve years, our subject was superseded by his brother. He next engaged in the tinware and hardware business, which he conducted for about one year; then engaged in the family grocery business, shortly afterward adding dry goods, which business he ran successfully until the breaking out of the war, when, owing to the financial depression, he suspended business until the close of the war, then opened again and was doing a thriving business up to 1875, when his stock was consumed by fire, sustaining a heavy loss. In the fall of the same year he engaged as silent partner in the well-known grocery house of W. & D. Hopper, remaining for two and one-half years; then engaged in the same business alone, and was again burned out in 1882; but in the fall of the same year he began business again and continued up to the present time. In 1853 he married Miss Margaret Simington. She was born in Tennessee in 1832, and is the mother of eight children, five of whom are living: Maude C., married to James Medlin, and after his death married to D. R. Staley; Iva R., married to Wm. Dodds; Walter, James and Leigh. His wife is a member of the old school Presbyterian Church, and in politics he is Democratic.

Goodspeeds History of Tennessee