Portrait and biographical album of Pike and Calhoun counties, Illinois .. . ^«8H^^ OHN MARSHALL HAMIL-^y,_ TON, Governor 1883-5, wasborn May 28, 1847, in a logbouse upon a farm about twomiles from Richwood, UnionCounty, Ohio. His father wasSamuel Hamilton, the eldest sonof Rev. VVm. Hamilton, who, to-gether with his brother, the Hamilton, was among theearly pioneer Methodist preachers inOhio. The mother of the subject ofthis sketch was, before her marriage,Mrs. Nancy McMorris, who wasborn and raised in Fauquier or Lou-doun County, Va., and related to thetwo large families of Youngs
Portrait and biographical album of Pike and Calhoun counties, Illinois .. . ^«8H^^ OHN MARSHALL HAMIL-^y,_ TON, Governor 1883-5, wasborn May 28, 1847, in a logbouse upon a farm about twomiles from Richwood, UnionCounty, Ohio. His father wasSamuel Hamilton, the eldest sonof Rev. VVm. Hamilton, who, to-gether with his brother, the Hamilton, was among theearly pioneer Methodist preachers inOhio. The mother of the subject ofthis sketch was, before her marriage,Mrs. Nancy McMorris, who wasborn and raised in Fauquier or Lou-doun County, Va., and related to thetwo large families of Youngs and Marshalls, wellknown in that commonwealth; and from the latterfamily name was derived the middle name of In March, 1854, Mr. Hamiltons father sold outhis little pioneer forest home in Union County, O.,and, loading his few household effects and family(of six children) into two emigrant covered wagons,moved to Roberts Township, Marshall Co., 111., being21 days on the route. Swamps, unbridged streamsand innumerable hardships and privations met themon thei
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