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three, Adams sixty- five, Pinckney sixty-four and John Jay one. This threw the election in the liouse of representatives and before that body the Federalists, anxious to defeat Jefferson, favored Burr, and Hamilton, recovering his po- litical wisdom in time, used his influence in favor of Jefferson, his former enemy. But with Burr as vice-president, dissension ruled the administra- tion and Hamilton guarded his party as best he could against the political intrigue of Burr. When Burr was defeated by Morgan Lewis in the election of 1803 for governor of New York he charged his defeat to Hamilton and their long continued quarrel culminated in a duel at Wee- hawken, N.J., July 11, 1804, where Hamilton fell mortally wounded at the first fire. He was mar- ried Dec. 14, 1780, to Elizabeth, daughter of Gen. Philip Schuyler of Albany, N.Y., having first met Miss Schuyler while visiting General Gates on official business relative to transferring a por- tion of his troops. They lived on an estate known as " The Grange " overlooking the Hudson river in the neighborhood of Fort George, New York city. Here, af- v/';|r?i'ii ,. ter building a

■ liandsome resi-

dence, he plant- ed on the lawn thirteen gum trees in a single clump and named

them for the thirteen states. The trees were still standingin 1900 but the house, removed to make room for the march of improve- ment, occupied but a single lot in the midst of modern residences. Of their children, Philip, born Jan. 22, 1782, was graduated at Columbia in 1800 and was killed in a duel with Eckert, Nov. 24, 1801, on the same field at Weehawken, N. J., where his father fell before the pistol of Burr in 1804; Alexander, born May 16, 1786, was gradu- ated at Columbia in 1804. was admitted to the practice of law, was with Wellington's army in Portugal in 1811, captain, U.S. infantry, Au- gust, 1813, aide-de-camp to Gen. Morgan Lewis in 1814, U.S. district attorney for Florida, 1822, Florida land commissioner in 1823, real estate lawyer, 1824-75, and died Aug. 2, 1875; James Alexander, born April 14, 1788, was graduated at Columbia in 1805, was brigade-major and inspec- tor of the New York state militia, U.S. di.strict attorney for New Y^ork, 1829-33, LL.D., Hamil-

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ton college, 1861, author of "Reminiscences of Hamilton, or News and Events at Home and Abroad During Three Quarters of a Century " (1869), and died in Irvington, N.Y., Sept. 24, 1878; John Church, born Aug. 22, 1792, was graduated at Columbia in 1809, practised law in New Y'ork, was lieutenant in the U.S. army, 1814, aide-de-camp on the staff of Gen. W. H. Harri- son, March to June, 1814, edited his father's "Works," published " History of the Republic of the United States as traced in the Writings of Alexander Hamilton and His Contemporaries " (1850-58), and died in Long Branch, N.J., July 25, 1882; William Steven, born Aug. 4, 1797, cadet at the U.S. military academy, 1814, U.S. sur- veyor of public lands, colonel of Illinois volun- teers in the Black Hawk war, removed to Wisconsin, and thence to California and died in Sacramento, Cal., Aug. 7, 1850; and Philip, born Jime 1, 1802, was assistant district attorney of New York, judge advocate of the nava' retiring board in Brooklyn, and died in Poughkeepsie, N.Y^., July 9, 1884. Alexander Hamilton's un- timely death was accepted as a public calamity and the popular feeling against Burr as the insti'u- ment of his death, drove him into exile. Hamil- ton was buried in Trinity churchyard, New Y^ork city, where a monument marks the grave. A statue was erected in Brooklyn, N.Y., by the Hamilton club. He received the degree of A.M. from Columbia college in 1788 and from Harvard in 1792 and that of LL.D. from Dartmouth in 1790, from the College of New Jersey in 1791 and from Harvard, Brown and Rutgers in 1792. He was a regent of the University of the state of New York, 1784-87 and trustee of Columbia college, 1784- 1804. He was a member of the Massachusetts historical society and of the American i)hilo- sophical society and fellow of the American acad- emy of arts and sciences. His works, including the Federalist, his official reports and public writ- ings were published in 1810 in three volumes. Francis L. Hawks edited his " Official and Other Papers" (1842) ; his son John Church published in seven volumes liis political and official writings in 1851; and Henry Cabot Lodge edited a still larger collection of his " Complete Works "' (9 vols., 1885). See also biogi-aphies by William Coleman (1854); John Williams (1854 and 1865); John Church Hamilton (2 vols., 1834-40); Henry B. Renwick (1841) ; Samuel M. Smucker (1856) ; Christopher J. Reithmueller (1864); John T. Morse, Jr. (1876) ; George Shea (1877-79) ; Henry Cabot Lodge (1882), and " Bibliotheca Hamil- tonia " by Paul Leicester Ford (1886). He died in New York city, July 12, 1804.

HAMILTON, Allan McLane, physician, was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., Oct. 6. 1848; son of Philip and Rebecca (McLane) Hamilton and grand-