Samuel Hamilton and Margaret Ann "Maggie" Bradshaw

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Husband Samuel Hamilton ¹

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           Born: 9 Feb 1839 - Ohio Twp, Beaver Co, PA 2
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           Died: Aft 1914
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         Father: James Hamilton (1789-1843) 2
         Mother: Margaret Sloan (1797-      ) 2

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       Marriage: 17 Oct 1869 3

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   Other Spouse: Margaret Cowden (1842-      ) 2 4 - 19 Sep 1876 3

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Wife Margaret Ann "Maggie" Bradshaw ⁵

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           Born: 15 Mar 1844 - Beaver Co, PA 3
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           Died: 19 Sep 1872 3
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         Father: Robert Bradshaw (      -      ) 6
         Mother: Tamar Agnes Phillis (1802-      ) 6

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Children

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1 F May Hamilton ³

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           Born: 20 Aug 1871 3
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         Spouse: Rem A. Johnston (      -      ) 3

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General Notes: Husband - Samuel Hamilton

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He was educated in the public schools of his native township and led the usual life of a well-to-do farmer's son, assisting in the cultivation of the home farm during his leisure time. He was about twenty-two years of age at the time of the outbreak of the Civil War, and was one of the earliest in his district to offer his services in behalf of his country. June 29, 1861, he enlisted in the Curtin Rifles, at Camp Wright, Beaver County, Pennsylvania. He was mustered into the United States service as a member of Company F, Tenth Pennsylvania Reserve Volunteer Corps, and was honorably discharged, April 27, 1863, on account of wounds received at the battle of Fredericksburg, December 13, 1862. His record during the war is a most creditable one. He was a participant in the seven days' struggle before Richmond, under McClellan; was in the thickest of the fight at Fredericksburg, at which time he was shot through the body and lost his right arm. Here, also, he was taken prisoner of war, was confined in Libby Prison for a period of six weeks, when he was paroled and sent to the hospital at Annapolis, Maryland, and there he received his discharge as above stated.
Upon returning to his home, after he had recovered his strength, he became a student at Duff's Business College, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and was graduated as a bookkeeper. He then went to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, where for nine years he was engaged in the land department. He then returned to his former home in Beaver County. His political support was given to the Republican party, in whose cause he was an active worker. He served as school director for a period of three years; was county treasurer for three years; and for almost eighteen years served as secretary of the Home Protective Saving and Loan Association at New Brighton, Pennsylvania. He was a member of the First Presbyterian Church of Beaver, and was an elder in this institution for upward of thirty years. He was a member of Post No. 73, Grand Army of the Republic, and served as commander of that body for many years.

1 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1914), Pg 178, 851.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1914), Pg 178.

3 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1914), Pg 179.

4 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 146.

5 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1914), Pg 179, 851.

6 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1914), Pg 851.