Grundy County IL Archives Biographies.....Hamilton, Charles V 1845 - 
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Author: History Grundy County 1882

Charles V. Hamilton, hardware merchant, Gardner, was born in Fulton, Oswego 
Co., N. Y., December 18, 1845, son of John V. and Charlotte H. (White) 
Hamilton, he born September 9, 1818, at Ira, Cayuga Co., N. Y.; was a 
shipbuilder by trade, and came to Illinois in 1860, where he followed the 
trade of a carpenter until 1869, when he removed to Wisconsin, and, in 1880, 
to Dakota, where he lives in retirement from actual labor. The mother, also a 
native of Ira, N. Y., was born May 23, 1826, and died in Wisconsin December 
26, 1877; she was the mother of five children, three of whom are living - 
Charles (our subject), Helen H. and Edward E. Our subject availed himself of 
the educational privileges of the common schools of his native place, and, at 
the age of eighteen, commenced clerking in a store of general merchandise, 
which occupation he followed in different localities until 1876, when he came 
to Gardner, Ill., and opened a hardware store. June 17, 1874, he married Miss 
Ellen Hustin, who was born in Grundy County February 21, 1853, and is a 
daughter of Robert and Elizabeth Hustin, of Gardner. By this marriage there 
are three children, viz., Verner E., born April 9, 1875; Robert J., July 16, 
1877, and Charlotte M., March 2, 1879. Mr. Hamilton has been more than 
ordinarily successful in his business as a hardware merchant, and his trade is 
steadily increasing. He has been Village Trustee one term, and is now serving 
his third term as Township Treasurer; is an active member of A., F. & A. M. 
His wife is a member of the Baptist Church.

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Source: History of Grundy County, Illinois. (1882) Chicago: O.L. Baskin & Co. 
Historical Publishers.

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