Payette County ID Archives Biographies.....Hamilton, Hugh H. 1869 - 1941
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Author: Hiram T. French

History of Idaho
By Hiram T. French, M.S.
The Lewis Publishing Co
Chicago & New York 1914

HUGH H. HAMILTON

Hugh H. Hamilton, postmaster of New Plymouth, Idaho, has been a resident of 
this state a comparatively short time, but long enough to satisfy himself that 
Idaho – with its wealth of undeveloped resources, its healthful climate and 
the class of citizens that is constantly settling within its borders – that 
all these combine to make it a desirable place of residence, with a great 
future.

Mr. Hamilton is a native of the “Keystone State.”  He was born in Crawford 
county, Pennsylvania, August 8, 1869, fourth in the family of seven children 
of James and Margaret (Williams) Hamilton, the former a native of Ireland and 
the latter of New Jersey.  James Hamilton was only a boy when, along in 
the ‘30s he left the “Emerald Isle” and sought a home in America.  The rest of 
his life was spent in Pennsylvania.  For a number of years he served as 
postmaster of Greenwood, that state.  Agricultural pursuits, however, occupied 
his time the greater part of his life.  He died at Greenwood, in 1887, at the 
age of seventy-one years.  His widow survived him a number of years, until 
1904, when her death occurred at the old home place at Greenwood, at the age 
of sixty-four.

Hugh H. Hamilton spent his early life on his father’s farm, and up to the time 
he was eighteen attended the common schools.  At the age of twenty-two years, 
he started out in life on his own responsibility.  He learned telegraphy and 
followed that profession for twenty years, all of this time with the Erie 
Railroad Company, the last nine years as train dispatcher.  In the spring of 
1911 he came to Idaho, and since April 1st of that year has made his home in 
New Plymouth.  In May of the following year he was appointed postmaster of the 
town and in July took charge of the office.  Also he has a shoe business, 
which he conducts in connection with the office.

At Warren, Ohio, October 9, 1896, Mr. Hamilton married Miss Margaret Watson, 
daughter of Richard Watson, a native of that state; and this union has been 
blessed in the birth of one child, Gerald W.

In Pennsylvania, Mr. Hamilton identified himself with the German Reform church 
at Meadville, and still retains membership in the organization at that place.  
He is a member of the Commercial Club at New Plymouth.

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