- H. G. HAMILTON; P.O. Milton; born in Brookfield, Madison
Co., N.Y., Feb. 18, 1810; son
- of Freeborn and Tacy HAMILTON; H. G. HAMILTON came to Wisconsin
in 1842; and located in Harmony Township; moved to town of Lima;
thence to Milton, in the spring of 1856; was a carpenter and
joiner; had assisted in the building of many of the principal
buildings in Milton - college, schoolhouses, churches and dwellings.
Was elected Assessor of Lima is 1845; served there three years;
elected Justice of the Peace at Lima, and, in 1862, was appointed
U. S. Deputy Provost Marshal, and served till the war closed.
Married Miss Catherine M. BURDICK Sept. 25, 1834, a native of
New York; they have had five children - Mary L., born Jan. 27,
1836; Emery M., Jan. 22, 1838; Arthur D., born May 11, 1842,
(was killed at the battle of Antietam Sept. 17, 1862; he was
the first young man who offered his services as a soldier in
Milton; enlisted in April, 1861, in Co. H, 2d W.V.I., under Capt.
Randolph; was buried at the National Cemetery, Antietam); Madelia
S., born Aug. 30, 1846; Madeline L., Feb. 1, 1849. Mr. HAMILTON
and family are members of the Seventh Day Baptist Church.
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- Taken from "The History of Rock County, Wis."
(c)1879, p. 824.
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- Courtesy of Carol
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