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 HKRRINOSIfAW'8 I-IMRARY OF AMKRK'AN BIOGRAPHY. He was subseiiUently appointed asinternal revenuf. In 18t}7 U9 lio representative from Uhio lo the fortieth congress, lie wa.s kille«l Dec. 21, 1SG7, in .Marysvillf, Ohio. Hamilton, Daniel W., lawyer, congressman, was born Dec. 20, 1801, in Ogle county, 111. At the ag»' of eigliti'en yi'ars he l>egan teaching .school. In 1884 Ik* graduaU-d from the law dVpartmiiit of thi- state university at Iowa Lily, Iowa. Since 1885 he has practiced law in Sigourncy, Iowa; and in 1894-98 was postmaster of that city. In HM»7-09 he was a representative from Iowa to the si.xtieth congn-—^ a-> a dt-nnuTat. Hamilton, David Gilbert, railroad presisenate.

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was Ijorn .Ian. lo, 1842, in I'liieago, In 1808 he graduated from the law de partment of the university of Chicago, lie has l)een president of various railroads; and since D>!»y ha.s l)een president of the Cliieago dent, III.

railway ct^mpany. Hamilton, Edward, soMier, lawyer, journalist, wa-s born in Clupepper county, N'a. He served in the Mexican war; and in rec ognition of his ser'ice was appointed secretary of the territory of Arizona in 1850. He die«l ill Arizona. Hamilton, Edward John, e-man and since 1895 professor <if phibnophy in the stale university of Washington. He is the author of The Human Mind; Mental Science; The Modal isl, the I.jiws of Rational Thought; and a New .Analysis in Funda mental Modes, a short treatise in ethics. Hamilton, Edward La Rue, lawyer, congressman, was horn Dec. 9, 1857. in Niles, .Mich. He receivce<l a thorough education in

Ky., was born Feb. 22, 1883, Franklin counlv, Kv. He is u successful lawyer of Frankfort, Ky.j and has been u representative fiom Franklin county in the Kentucky state legislature. He is now a memlier and secretary of the Kentucky .state lax commission. Hamilton, Frank Hastings, educator, surge«in, autlior, was born Sept. lU, I8i;j, in Wilmington, N't. He was for many year* of Frankfort, in

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the piiliiie and private schools of Ills native citv; and for three years he studied law

graduating in 1S84. lie began to practice the same year; ami has attained sneeess his profession at ill Niles. Mich. In IH971915 be was a representative from Miehi gan to the fifty lift li, fifty sixth.

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enth, tifty-eighth. lifty-nintli. sixti4 tb. sixtvlirst, sixty-seconil ami sixty third eongiesses as a republican.

Hamilton, Elizabeth, litterateur, was born Aug. 9, 1757. in .Alhany. N.V. She rendered assistance to her husband in his labors, counseleil him in his affairs, and kept his papers in order for him. She preserved the large collection of manuscripts; which was acquired by the I'liited States government She died Nov. 9, 1854, in Washin 1849. ington, D.(^.

Hamilton, Elwood, lawyer and statesman

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author of .Strabismus; Fractures and Dislocations; Military Surgery; I'rinciples and I'raetiee ol Surgery; an<l .Surgical .Memories of the War of the Uebellittn. He died Aug. 11, 1880, in New York City. Hamilton, Franklin Elmer Ellsworth, clergyman, theologian, was born on Aug. 9,

1860, in Pleasant Valley, Ohio. In 1883 he graduated from the Boston latin school;

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graduated n 1887 with the degree of A.B. from Harvard i

university; and during 1889 91 iHjinpleled a course in philosophy unithe at versity of Herlin, having previously in 1888 89 been professor of Greek and latin at the Grant

He subsequently graduated with degrees of S.T.B. and Ph.D. from Boston In 1895 1900 he was pastor of Orient Heights church of Boston, Mass.; in 1902 was pastor of the metho<list episcopal (•liurch at Ncwtonville, Mass.; and since I!M»2 has been pastor of the First melhodist liiiieh of Boston, Mass. In 1892 95 he was pnvsident of the Old South historical society of Hoston. In 1904 he was elected a menilx?r if the iNtant of control of Epworth league; .iikI in 11H)5 was elected a trustee of the Boston iinivei.sity theological school alumni ( I. In I9ii:t04 he made a tour of the World; studied ehristian missions and native ii-li^'ioiis and has written widely on that siibjeet in many journals. In 1907 he was ideete«| chancellor of the American university of Wasliington, D.C. Hamilton, Frederick William, educator, ••lergj'raan, author, was born March 30, ISOO.' in Portland, .Maine. Since 1889 he lias been pastor in the universalist church; and since 1905 has been president of Tufts college. He is the author of The Church and Secular Life. Hamilton, H. B., lawyer, jurist. In 1896 he was associate justice of the supreme court of New Mexico for the fifth district. university. tiie

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Hamilton, Hamilton, painter, artist, was born April 1, 1847, in England. In 1889 he became a member of the National academy of design. He is distinguished in l imlseape and genre, both in oil and wafi r i-oiois, ;ind