Charles Hammarquist

This group, (which included Thure Kumlien, later to become a notable naturalist) was described by one historian as "not farmers, but highly educated men who learned in time to clear forests and till the soil for homes in this new land.

"[1] In September 1846 he married Josephina Maximiliana Eugenia Reuterskjold (born January 4, 1830, in Västergötland), another of that group.

When the Town of Sumner was organized, he was elected and served two terms as chairman of the city council (equivalent to a mayor), which again made him ex officio a member of the county board.

He only served a single one-year term and was succeeded by Horace B. Willard, another Republican.

[6] He died December 3, 1889, and is buried in the Hammarquist family plot in the Busseyville Cemetery.