Greene County PA Archives Biographies.....Hamilton, Joseph 1808 - 1871
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Source: Biographical History of Greene County, Nelson, Rishforth, and Co, Chicago, 1888
Author: Samuel P. Bates

      Joseph Hamilton, deceased, was a farmer and stock 
grower and a successful businessman. He was a self-made man, 
and by reason of his industry, economy and business ability, 
succeeded in accumulating a goodly share of this world's 
possessions. He died in 1871, leaving his wife and children 
over 400 acres of valuable farming land near Carmichaels, 
Penna. Mr Hamilton was born in the state of Pennsylvania in 
1808, was a son of Joseph Hamilton, and was of Scotch Irish 
origin. His father was a manufacturer of boots and shoes. Mr 
Hamilton received a common school education; he came to 
Greene County in 1850 and settled in Cumberland Township. 
His wife, whom he married in Fayette County, Penna, was Miss 
Catherine Coursin. Of their eight children, seven are now 
living: William Hamilton; Elizabeth Hamilton, wife of 
Richard Moffett; Mary Hamilton; Sarah Hamilton; Catherine 
Hamilton; Noah Hamilton and Nancy J Hamilton. Mr Hamilton 
was known throughout his life as a staunch Democrat and a 
strict adherent of the Presbyterian Church.

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