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William Churchill Hammond (November 25, 1860 – April 15, 1949) was an American organist, choirmaster, and music educator. He is noted for being one of the founding members of the American Guild of Organists, and for a lengthy tenure on the faculty of Mount Holyoke College.
Hammond was born in Rockville, Connecticut. In 1885, at the age of 25 he became organist and music director of Holyoke's Second Congregational Church, a post that he served for nearly 60 years. He married Fannie Reed, daughter of Second Congregational's pastor. Among his pupils was John Shea, who would later write Notre Dame's Victory March, first playing it for his former teacher on the congregational church's organ in 1908.
He first joined the faculty of Smith College. In 1899 he joined faculty of Mount Holyoke College (as one of the first two male faculty) and remained there for over 40 years. In 1924 he received a Doctor of Music degree from Holyoke, in 1935 he established a music major, and in 1936 he resigned the position of chair of the music department.
Throughout his career Hammond himself would give more than 1,200 local recitals as well as organize and tour Mount Holyoke's Carol Choir to venues across the country, including the White House.
Hammond was also a collector of folklore songs, arranging and publishing Christmas carols through the New Haven Carol Society for more than 35 years, as well as most notably being the first musician to formally put the American folk-tune White's Air into print.
In December 1942, Holyoke's daily newspaper Transcript-Telegram awarded Hammond with its third William G. Dwight Distinguished Service to Holyoke award.




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Allyn, George H. (1912). Thirtieth Anniversary Sketch, Holyoke Daily Transcript, 1882–1912. The Transcript Publishing Co. p. 55. OCLC 24571746.
Cutter, William Richard; Crane, Ellery Bicknell; Gardner, Eugene C.; Read, Charles French; Ballard, Harland Hoge; Rantoul, Robert Samuel; Lockwood, John H.; Dyer, E. Alden (1916). "Hammond, William Churchill". Encyclopedia of Massachusetts, Biographical–Genealogical. Vol. VI. Boston: The American Historical Society, Inc. pp. 87–92.
Johnson, Clifton, ed. (1936). "William Churchill Hammond, Mus. D.". Hampden County, 1636-1936 - Individual and Family Records. Vol. III. New York, The American historical Society. p. 68.
"William Churchill Hammond". 2015: The Pioneer Valley, Western Massachusetts; The Organ Historical Society's 60th Annual Convention (PDF). Richmond, Va.: The Organ Historical Society. 2015. p. V-88. Archived from the original (PDF) on January 29, 2021.
"William Churchill Hammond". The Story of Western Massachusetts. Vol. III. Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc. 1949. pp. 5–6 – via HathiTrust.
"William Churchill Hammon, Mus. D; Organist, Choirmaster, Educator". Men of New England. New York: American Historical Company. 1941. pp. 207–209 – via Internet Archive.




External links


Media related to William Churchill Hammond at Wikimedia Commons

Hammond papers, Mount Holyoke College Archives and Special Collections

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