E. R. Hamilton

    E. R. Hamilton was born in Vermont, on September 15, 1843. He is the youngest of nine children. His parents, James and Sarah (Plumley) Hamilton, natives of Scotland and Vermont respectively, were married in Vermont, and located in Brattleboro, removing thence to Randolph, Vermont; where they remained for some time. In 1849, they went to Lowell, Massachusetts, where the father died in 1854. The mother at present resides in Martinsville, eighty-two years of age.

    E. R. Hamilton was reared in Massachusetts and Vermont until nineteen years of age. In 1861, he went to Iowa, remaining for a short time, and then went to Tennessee, where he clerked for six months. He then went to Memphis, and kept books for the Elmwood Cemetery for one year. Returning to Vermont, he took a course at Eastman Business College, and graduated in the fall of 1863. He then returned to Memphis, and took a clerkship under Gen. Ornee (Special Agent of the United States Treasury Department), and he remained until 1865, going thence to Vermont, and then to Columbus, Indiana, where he kept books for J. H. Philbrooks, a dry goods merchant. Two years later they formed a partnership, and in 1872, Mr. Hamilton purchased  his partner's interest, and carried it on by himself for three years. He then came to Martinsville, and went into the "walnut lumber" business, in which he is now engaged.

    In June, 1864, he was married to Cora L. Plumley, of Albany, Vermont. They had one child, which died when young. His wife dying, he next married, in 1876, Mary A. McEwen. They have two children, Mary A. and Samuel. Mr. Hamilton is a stanch Republican.

Source: Counties of Morgan, Monroe and Brown, Indiana. Historical and Biographical. Charles Blanchard, Editor. F. A. Battey & Co., Publishers, 1884.