Hamilton, Schuyler C.

HAMILTON, ARTHUR

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Date: 2/14/2003 at 20:47:45

Source: "The 1901 Biographical Record of Clinton Co., Iowa, Illustrated" published: Chicago : S. J. Clarke Pub. Co., 1901.

SCHUYLER C. HAMILTON, M. D.

Dr. Schuyler C. Hamilton, who is now so efficiently serving as county coroner and medical director of the Lyons Gold Cure Sanitarium, of Lyons, Iowa, was born in North Manchester, Indiana, January 5, 1864, his parents being David and Abigail (Hamilton) Hamilton. By occupation the father was a contractor and builder. The Doctor received his literary education in the public and high schools of his native town, and also attended Spencer’s Business College at Cleveland, Ohio. He was then engaged in business with his father for about a year, and at the end of that time commenced the study of medicine with Dr. W. Y. Wells and Dr. J. S. Comingor, of Indianapolis. He also attended lectures at the Medical College of Indiana at Indianapolis, and after his graduation was engaged in general practice in his home town for a time.

Subsequently Dr. Hamilton became connected with the York Inn Sanitarium, at Marion, Indiana, as medical director, using his own formula, and in 1894 came to Lyons, Iowa, and obtained possession of a large brick structure which was formerly one of the finest hotels in the state. This he remodeled and fitted up with modern fixtures. Here he began business under the name of the Monroe Gold Cure Company, but in 1895 the name was changed to the Lyons Gold Cure Sanitarium. In 1900 he purchased the home of Professor Gibbs at the corner of Franklin and Sixth streets, Lyons, and has remodeled it both within and without, making it one of the best and handsomest sanitariums of the state; it is beautifully located on the west bank of the Mississippi; is a commodious structure containing over one hundred rooms, well furnished and is easy of access by railroad and steamboat. Dr. Hamilton has met with wonderful success from the start, having as high as one hundred and fifty patients at one time the first year, and he has cured more relapses from other cures than any other physician in the west. Patients have come to him from all over the country, as far east as Syracuse, New York, and as far west at Seattle, Washington. He not only cures the liquor habit but also the opium and morphine habits, which are generally far worse and cause the victim far more torture. The Doctor has received many flattering testimonials from those whom he has cured. He has met with a most gratifying success in his chosen calling and is numbered among the leading physicians of his adopted county.

Dr. Hamilton was married in 1888 to Miss Izona, daughter of James W. Arthur, a prominent attorney of North Manchester, Indiana, and to them were born two children: Cyril D., who died in infancy; and Arthur V., now ten years of age. Socially the Doctor is an honored member of the Knights of the Maccabees, the Mystic Workers of the World, and the Knights of the Red Cross. Politically he is a stanch supporter of the Democratic party, and in 1900 was elected a member of the city council from the sixth ward of the city of Clinton.