Husband James Hamilton 1
Born: 4 Apr 1804 1
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Died: Aft 1898
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Father: Joseph Hamilton ( - ) 1
Mother: Rachel Carr ( -1865) 1
Marriage: Jan 1841 1
Wife Hannah Waddle 1
Born: 26 Apr 1817 - Rock Forge, Centre Co, PA 1
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Died: Aft 1898
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Father: Thomas Waddle (Abt 1777-1825) 1 2
Mother: Hannah Benner (Abt 1787-1854) 1
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1 M Abram V. Hamilton 1
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Spouse: Catherine Marton ( - ) 1
2 F Sarah Hamilton 1
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Spouse: E. D. Satterfield ( - ) 1
3 F Laura E. Hamilton 3
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Spouse: Capt. Samuel H. Williams (1839- ) 4
Marr: 1880 5
4 F Merrilla Hamilton 6
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Spouse: William Dawson ( - ) 6
5 F Mary Hamilton 6
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Spouse: John Noll ( - ) 6
General Notes: Husband - James Hamilton
When he was a mere lad his step-father, Mr. Morris, met with an accident by which he was crippled, so from necessity he early began to labor and assist in the support of the family, receiving his schooling at intervals in the subscription schools of his neighborhood as best he could. At the time of his birth his parents were living about a mile west of Pine Grove, Pennsylvania, on what was later the Ross farm. Subsequently they removed down to Dunlop's, and at the age of six or eight years the lad, James, entered the employ of Boggs & Boyer, then operating Logan Forge and Furnace, as successors of John Dunlop. He began by sifting iron with a hand riddle, which occupation he followed four years at 30 cents a day, commencing his work before sunrise and continuing until sundown. From the age of thirteen until he was nineteen he worked at Stop's Gap, driving team, or working at whatever he could do, and during this time he had the advantage of three months' schooling, at night only. In 1815 the iron works were leased by the Valentine Brothers, who subsequently, in connection with William A. Thomas, purchased them and enlarged them, and with these gentlemen young Hamilton remained employed at the works, rising step by step until he became their manager at the Furnace. While with both these men he was regular in his business habits-not losing a day's time in upward of sixteen years. He received $300 a year, and boarded with George and Abram Valentine. From his savings early in the eighteen-forties, he purchased two hundred acres of land of George Meese, the father of John Meese, a merchant of Bellefonte; some twenty or more acres were cleared and under fence, and on it was the stone house built by George Meese in 1824. Here Mr. Hamilton retired and led a farmer's life for upward of forty years, when he moved to Bellefonte. He was one of the active men of Pleasant Gap neighborhood in religious matters, and in 1850, when the Methodist Church Society was formed, he and M. P. Weaver were appointed a building committee for erecting a house of worship. Subsequently, in 1875, a new church edifice was built costing some $3,000, which later became the property of the two gentlemen above named.