"COUNTIES OF MORGAN, MONROE & BROWN, INDIANA. HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL."
CHARLES BLANCHARD, EDITOR. CHICAGO: F. A. BATTEY & CO. PUBLISHERS. 1884.
F. A. BATTEY. F. W. TEPPLE
WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP AND MARTINSVILLE, MORGAN COUNTY, INDIANA
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E. R. HAMILTON was born in Vermont, on September 15, 1843. He is the
youngest of nine children. His parents, James and Sarah (Plumley) Hamilton,
natives of Scotland and Vermont respectively, were married in Vermont, and
located in Brattleboro, removing thence to Randolph, Vt.; where they
remained for some time. In 1849, they went to Lowell, Mass., where the
father died in 1854. The mother at present resides in Martinsville,
eighty-two years of age. E. R. Hamilton was reared in Massachusetts and
Vermont until nineteen years of age. In 1861, he went to Iowa, remaining
for a short time, and then went to Tennessee, where he clerked for six
months. He then went to Memphis, and kept books for the Elmwood Cemetery
for one year. Returning to Vermont, he took a course at "Eastman Business
College." and graduated in the fall of 1863. He then returned to Memphis,
and took a clerkship under Gen. Ornee (Special Agent of the United States
Treasury Department), and he remained until 1865, going thence to Vermont
and then to Columbus, Ind., where he kept books for J. H. Philbrooks, a dry
goods merchant. Two years later they formed a partnership, and in 1872 Mr.
Hamilton purchased his partner's interest, and carried it on by himself for
three years. He then came to Martinsville, and went into the "walnut
lumber" business, in which he is now engaged. In June, 1864, he was married
to Cora L. Plumley, of Albany, Vt. They had one child which died when
young. His wife dying, he next married, in 1876, Mary A. McEwen. They have
two children, Mary A. and Samuel. Mr. Hamilton is a stanch Republican.
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