Blair County PA Archives Biographies.....Hamor, Walter J. April 4, 1865 - ????
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Source: Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Blair Co, PA: Philadelphia, 1892.
Author: Samuel T. Wiley

WALTER J. HAMOR,
editor and proprietor of the Sunday Graphic News of Altoona, is a son of John
W. and Mary (Campbell) Hamor, and was born in Allegheny city, Allegheny
county, Pennsylvania, April 4, 1865. The Hamors are of German descent, and
Mr. Hamor's paternal grandfather, George Hamor, was a native of
Northumberland, and settled in Blair county, where he followed his trade of
shoemaker to some extent, his death occurring in 1880, at eighty-four years
of age. His son, John W. Hamor (father), was born in this county, and learned
the trade of nailer, which he followed at Pittsburg until 1868. In that year
he came to Duncansville, which he left in 1876 to remove to Northumberland
county, in which he resided up to 1882, when he returned to Duncansville,
where he died nine months later, at fifty-three years of age. He was a Free
Mason and Odd Fellow, a republican in politics, and a member of the
Evangelical Lutheran church. He married Mary Campbell, who was born in 1844,
and they reared a family of three children, one son and two daughters. Mrs.
Hamor, who is of Scotch-Irish descent, has been for years a member of the
Evangelical Lutheran church, and now resides in Altoona.
    Walter J. Hamor received his education in the high schools of
Northumberland, this State, and learned the "art preservative of arts" at
that place, where he worked until 1882, when he became a clerk at Altoona for
the Pennsylvania railroad Company, in whose employ he remained up to 1889. On
September 9th of that year he purchased the Sunday Graphic News from the
heirs of Homer Vaughan, and has continued as its proprietor and editor ever
since.
    On November 25, 1890, Mr. Hamor was united in marriage with Addie,
daughter of Mrs. Sarah Watson, of Tyrone. Their union has been blessed with
one child, a son, named Charles McOmber.
    The Sunday Graphic News is a twelve-page quarto, filled with all the
important news of the day, beside much choice and interesting miscellany. It
is the only Sunday paper in the county, and has a large and constantly
increasing circulation, which extends into adjoining counties. Mr. Hamor also
owns and operates a first-class job office. He is active and energetic, and
has made a decided success of his Sunday paper in the field of journalism.

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