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
JACKSON TOWNSHIP AND MORGANTOWN
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JAMES HAMILTON, stock-raiser and farmer, is a native of Wayne County, Ky.,
was born January 13, 1815, and is the fourth of the eleven children of John
and Elender (Collett) Hamilton, the former a native of North Carolina, the
latter of South Carolina, and of Scotch-Irish and English extraction, who
came to and settled in this township in 1825. John Hamilton was a pioneer,
and made the third entry of land. He, with the assistance of his family,
improved a good farm from these primitive wilds, and here closed his useful
life. James received a frontier education, and was reared to assist his
father, with whom he remained until this twenty-second year; then receiving
from his sire the sum of $50, with which to begin his own sustaining; and
with this he entered forty acres, which has grown to be 200 of choice and
valuable land, well improved--all the outcome of labor and frugality.
October 20, 1836, he wedded Miss Teresa Dorothy, of Kentucky birth, and this
marriage was cemented by five children--Elender, Lucinda, William R., Jesse
(deceased) and Louisa (deceased). Mr. Hamilton is a stanch Republican; a
liberal and benevolent gentleman, now rearing the three children of his
youngest daughter. He and wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
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