Albert Eugene Hamilton 1845-1910
Categories: First Generation Milton, Milton College Graduate, The Sabbath Recorder Obituary, Veteran Civil War
"The Sabbath Recorder", Vol 68, No 12, p 379, Mar. 21, 1910.
At his home in Kansas City, Kan., February 18, 1910, Albert Eugene Hamilton, in the 65th year of his age.
Mr. Hamilton was the son of Edward T. and Melissa Hamilton and was born in Lima, Wis., March 27, 1845. In his boyhood the family moved to Milton, where he united with the Seventh-day Baptist Church. At the age of eighteen he enlisted in Company C, Fortieth Wisconsin. After the Civil War he entered Milton College, from which he was graduated in 1870. In 1873 he was married, and in 1881 he was graduated from the school of law in the University of Iowa. In 1885 he settled in Kansas, where he practiced law successfully until, in the last few years, he was compelled on account of failing health to relinquish his practice. He leaves a widow and seven children, all of whom live in Kansas; also one sister, Mrs. Ida Wells of Milton, Wis. W. C. D.

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