Greene-Washington-Knox County IN Archives Biographies.....Hamilton, James B. 1820 - 
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Author: Goodspeed (1884)

   REV. JAMES B. HAMILTON, a well-known man in Greene County, was born October
16, 1820, in Washington County, Ind. His parents, Archibald and Susannah
(Bridges) Hamilton, were natives of North Carolina; were married in 1808, became
the parents of five children, three of whom are yet living, and in 1817 became
residents of the county where the subject of this sketch was born. James B. was
raised on a farm, and in 1840 was wedded to Miss Elizabeth W. Rice, a native of
Kentucky, who died in 1854, the mother of live children—Emmons R., Cyrus N.,
Elisha Asbury, Mollie and Susannah. All are living, and the oldest, since 1878,
has been in Washington Territory. Mr. Hamilton married Miss Euphrasia Stuckey in
1855, and by her is the father on two children—Ida M. and Elizabeth A. Early in
life, Mr. Hamilton experienced religion, and believing that many souls were yet
to be saved, he applied, and was admitted a member of the Indiana Methodist
Episcopal Conference. He has pursued his ministerial labors in various portions
of the State, and at present his location is at Edwardsport and Oaktown. While
at Linton, Greene County, during a portion of the late war, and being a man of
pronounced Union sentiments, he was unmercifully assailed by rebel sympathizers,
and threatened violence of numerous kinds. Notwithstanding these troubles, he
continued his labors as honestly and conscientiously as before. For a time he
was out in the service, as Chaplain of the Thirty-first Indiana Volunteers. In
politics, Mr. Hamilton is a Republican, and in Masonry has passed through the
different degrees, until at present he is a Sir Knight of the Commandery at
Louisville. He owns a good farm of 200 acres in Washington Township, this
county, and where known is universally respected.

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Washingnton Township Biographies

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HISTORY OF GREENE AND SULLIVAN COUNTIES,
STATE OF INDIANA,
FROM THE EARLIEST TIME TO THE PRESENT; TOGETHER WITH INTERESTING BIOGRAPHICAL
SKETCHES, REMINISCENCES, NOTES, ETC.

ILLUSTRATED.

CHICAGO: GOODSPEED BROS. & CO., PUBLISHERS.
1884.

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