Hamilton, W. J.

HAMILTON

Posted By: Joyce Hickman (email)
Date: 9/18/2008 at 13:27:29

W. J. Hamilton

(From the 1883 History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, by J. H. Keatley, p.160, Macedonia Twp.)
W. J. Hamilton, farmer, P. O. Macedonia, was born in Indiana in 1842. His father, David N. Hamilton, was born in Kentucky in December, 1818, and is a retired farmer living in Greensburg, Ind. Subject's mother, Martha A. (Taylor) Hamilton, was born about 1820, and died in 1864. She was the mother of eleven children, three of whom are dead. Mr. Hamilton came from his native State to Mills County, Iowa, in 1869, settling near Hastings, where he owned and farmed eighty acres for five years; he then sold out and bought another farm near Macedonia, in the township of that name. After living on this farm about four years, he sold it to his brother, J. W. Hamilton, and then bought his present farm of 400 acres. This farm is three and a half miles from Macedonia and has a very sightly location; it is worth $35 an acre. March 12, 1863, Mr. Hamilton was married to Miss Hattie Phillips, who died in 1866. He was married a second time, in 1869, to Mrs. Hattie (Brown) Tindal, born in Indiana in 1843, daughter of John C. and Mary (Hattan) Brown; he, born in Pennsylvania in 1799, died in Indiana in 1864; she, born in New Jersey about 1802, was the mother of five children, and died in 1876. Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton have had three children - Myrta C., born January 11, 1871; Pearl, born February 4, 1876, died January 3, 1879; William J., born November 13, 1879. Mr. Hamilton and wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He is an A., F. & A. M., and a Republican.