Hamer is a descendant of Russian immigrants and was born in New York City, USA on May 21, 1898. His great-grandfather Vladimir was a Russian Jew who became extremely wealthy by building ships during the reign of Tsar Nicholas I. By the time Hamer's grandfather, Jacob, was married and had children, a tsunami caused by a typhoon wiped away all the family wealth. In 1875, Jacob immigrated to the United States with his wife and son Julius. When Julius was 15 years old, he gave up his studies and worked as a foundry in a steel factory to support his family. He was young and strong and became a very important figure among the workers. He joined the Socialist Labor Party, organized a trade union, and became an active socialist. When Julius was 19 years old, he applied for a job as a pharmacist. A few years later, he used his saved wages to buy his boss's pharmacy, and later opened two more branches and a pharmaceutical factory. In this way, the young socialist became a young capitalist. However, Julius did not give up his beliefs and remained a loyal follower of the American socialist movement. During a socialist outing in 1897, Julius fell in love at first sight with a young widow, Rose, and soon married. A year later, they had their first child, whom Julius named Armon Hammer, allegedly after the Arm and Hammer, the flag emblem of the Socialist Labor Party of the United States. .
Only 4 months after Hamer was born, his father Julius was admitted to Columbia Medical College. In the next four years, Julius had to run a pharmacy and a pharmaceutical factory as well as study for his medical course. However, he was indeed a tough man and managed to balance his studies and career, and finally graduated in 1902. The achievement of this achievement had a great influence on Hamer's subsequent growth.
Julius believed that treating diseases and saving people was more noble than making money from business, so he resolutely sold the pharmacy and pharmaceutical factory, opened a clinic in the Bronx area of ??New York City, and became a doctor. During his lifetime of practicing medicine, he saved the lives of more than 5,000 babies.
Under the guidance of their father's words and deeds, the children grew up. Hammer is the least obedient of the three brothers, but also the most creative. He skipped school, but after his father's education, he changed. He rose to the top of his class without slipping away. After school, he also learned to play with radios, build airplane models, and won a gold medal in the high school graduation speech contest. In addition, he was fascinated by the biographies of famous American entrepreneurs such as Rockefeller and Carnegie who started from scratch, and began to look for ways to make money. At the age of 16, when he was in high school, he successfully made his first "big deal." One day, he saw an old two-seater convertible being auctioned on Broadway and decided to buy it. He borrowed money from his half-brother Harry, who sold goods in a drugstore, and confidently promised to repay him soon. It turned out that he had found a job from a newspaper advertisement, that is, using a car to deliver goods to a confectioner, and he could get a reward of US$20 a day. Sure enough, two weeks later, not only did he repay his brother in full and get the car, but he also had coins jingling in his pocket.
Three years later, in 1917, after completing two years of pre-medical courses, Hamer came to the prestigious Columbia Medical College with great ambition and submitted an application for admission. The staff member in charge of registration looked him up and down and said, "Are you Dr. Julius's son? I processed your father's application for admission in 1898, the year you were born, and I'm here to welcome you again today." That's it, ha. Mo is proud to be a student at Columbia Medical School, and the boat of destiny seems to be carrying him in the direction of inheriting his father's legacy.
However, one day, his father came to the campus to find Hammer and told his son bad news: the pharmaceutical company he invested his savings in was on the verge of bankruptcy. Moreover, due to his poor health, especially because he wanted to continue practicing medicine, he had no energy to take care of the management of the company. Therefore, he asked his son to become the general manager of the company, but he was not allowed to drop out of school. He emphasized: "Son, this is what I did in the past, and you can do this too."
In fact, his father's worries are completely unnecessary. Hammer has long been eager to try. He took on the challenge with great excitement. In order not to miss his studies, Hamer invited a classmate from a poor family but who excelled in studies to live with him and provided him with free food and accommodation. The condition was that the classmate would go to class every day, take a lot of notes, and bring them back to him in the evening for him to prepare for the exam. and writing papers. With this learning "stand-in", Hammer can concentrate on the management of the company. He reformed the company's business policies and sales methods, organized a strong team of salesmen, and changed the company's name to the resounding "United Chemical and Pharmaceutical Company." Hammer finally rescued the endangered company from the brink of bankruptcy. The number of employees grew from a dozen to 1,500. The products were sold nationwide, and the company began to join the ranks of large companies in the pharmaceutical industry.