. Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees. .On the maternal side he is connected with EdmundBurke, Jonathan Edwards and George Walton. Heattended private schools at Mobile and was fittedfor College at the Academy of James P. Hughesin Bellefonte, Pennsylvania. He graduated fromPrinceton in the Class of 1879, receiving the Fellow-ship in Mental Science, and on this Fellowship hestudied for a year at Leipzig University in his return to .America he
. Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees. .On the maternal side he is connected with EdmundBurke, Jonathan Edwards and George Walton. Heattended private schools at Mobile and was fittedfor College at the Academy of James P. Hughesin Bellefonte, Pennsylvania. He graduated fromPrinceton in the Class of 1879, receiving the Fellow-ship in Mental Science, and on this Fellowship hestudied for a year at Leipzig University in his return to .America he studied law with JohnB. Minor of the University of Virginia during thesummer of 1880, then took a regular law courseat the University of Alabama at Tuskaloosa, gradu-ating at the head of his class in 1882. He imme-diately began the practice of his profession, andis still engaged in active practice in Mobile. Hewas a member of the City Council 1888 to 1891, UNIVERSITIES AND THEIR SONS 143 City Attorney of Mobile from 1891 to 1894, is amember of the Mobile Commercial Club, a Directorand has been President of the Young Mens Chris-tian Association, and has held various offices in. p. J. HAMiLTljN other clubs and societies of his native city. Heis a Presbyterian, a sound-money Democrat, wasAssistant Codifier of Alabama Code in 1886 andthe Corlifier of City Code of Mobile in 1897. has contributed largely to papers andSouthern magazines, his writings having been chieflyon History and Institutions. Among his publishedbooks are : Rambles in Historic Lan<ls, and Colo-nial Mobile,—a book of note on Southwesternhistory. He is now working with Hannis Tayloron a book on International Law. Mr. Hamiltonwas married to Rachel Wheeler Burgett, June 30,1891. They have one child living: Anna CarlottaHamilton. (Van Zandt) Griggs. He is of English ancestry onthe paternal side and descended from an old Colo-nial family, the founder of which was the originalsettler of Griggstown, Somer
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