Counties of Morgan, Monroe and Brown, Indiana. Historical and
Biographical. Charles Blanchard, Editor. Chicago: F. A. Battey & Co.,
Publishers, 1884, p. 251. Wayne County.

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 his
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 Mrs.
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.

Hamilton Collett Dorothy
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NC SC

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