Howard County IN Archives Biographies.....Hamilton, N. C. 1873 - 
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Author: Jackson Morrow

N. C. HAMILTON, M. D.

   The medical profession in Howard county has an able and worthy representative
in the person of Dr. N. C. Hamilton, whose success since locating in Kokomo has
won him many warm friends and admirers in the city and county and made him
widely and favorably known among the representative medical men in this part of
the state.

   As his name indicates, Dr. Hamilton is descended from the sturdy Scotch-Irish
element, that has added so much to the moral fiber of the American commonwealth
and is a compliment worthily bestowed to claim for him the possession of many of
the sterling attributes and characteristics for which that people have long been
distinguished. On the mother's side his ancestors were Scotch and bore the
characteristic name of McGlaughlin. Both branches of the family were early
representatives in the country and have been known in Logan county, Ohio, where
the doctor's parents, James G. Hamilton and Isabella McGlaughlin, were married
and spent the greater part of their lives.

   Dr. Hamilton was born in the above county and state on August 13, 1873, and
spent his childhood and early youth in the town of Zanesville, where he also
received his first instruction in the public schools. Owing to circumstances
over which he had no control he was early obliged to rely upon his own resources
for a livelihood, accordingly at the early age of eleven years he left the
parental roof and during the ensuing two years turned his hands to any kind of
honorable labor he could find to do. While still a mere lad he determined to
take advantage of every opportunity to increase his earnings with the object in
view of obtaining a good education and ultimately fitting himself for some
useful vocation, his early experience having taught him that without such
preparation his life would be of little worth. To this end therefore he
husbanded his savings with the greatest care, and being blessed with a vigorous
physique and good health he was able to put in steady time as a farm hand until
accumulating sufficient means to defray his expenses for one term at the State
University, Ada, Ohio.

   On becoming a student of that institution young Hamilton applied himself
diligently and made such rapid progress that within a comparatively short time
he was sufficiently advanced to pass the required examination and obtain a
teacher's license. After teaching two years in the country schools he secured an
appointment as night watchman at the State Industrial school at Lancaster, later
being promoted to assistant superintendent, with which institution he continued
until his twenty-second year, meanwhile laying aside the greater part of his
salary and devoting his hours of leisure to the perusal of such books as would
enable him to lay a firm mental foundation for the subsequent courses of study
in medicine which he had determined to take.

   Having decided to make this profession his life work, the doctor in 1896
severed his connection with the Industrial school and in the fall of that year
entered Miami Medical College at Cincinnati, where he prosecuted his studies and
researches with diligence and assiduity until completing the prescribed course
and receiving the degree of Doctor of Medicine later. In the spring of 1900, the
year in which he graduated. Dr. Hamilton came to Kokomo and formed a partnership
with Dr. J. C. F. Thome, the firm thus constituted lasting about one year when
it was dissolved by mutual consent, since which time he has been alone in the
practice, building up a professional business, the meanwhile which in scope and
magnitude, is second to that of few physicians in the city or county. Dr.
Hamilton is in many respects remarkable in that he began life with no capital
save a clear brain, strong will and an inborn determination to succeed, and his
success in overcoming the many obstacles in his way and forging to the front
among the leading men of his profession in an old and well occupied field
bespeak the possession of ability with which few are endowed. He has always been
a critical student and with a laudable ambition to rise in his profession he
keeps abreast the times in all matters relating thereto, being well grounded in
its fundamental principles and ready to adopt any modern discovery or improved
method suggested or sanctioned by the leading schools and authorities. The
doctor is a gentleman of pleasing presence and genial personality and during his
residence of over eight years in Kokomo he has gathered about him a wide circle
of loyal friends in business and professional circles and in addition to which
it can truly be said that his popularity is bounded neither by class nor
condition. His already comprehensive practice is steadily growing, and being in
the prime of vigorous physical and mental powers he confidently looks forward to
many years of activity and usefulness in the noble and humane calling to which
his life is being so unselfishly devoted.

   Dr. Hamilton maintains a beautiful home in Kokomo and is the head of an
interesting family circle consisting of an intelligent and refined wife and
three bright children, who answer to the names of Marion L., Isabel P. and Alice
J. Mrs. Hamilton, formerly Clara Laugh 1 in, is a native of the same state and
county in which the doctor was born, and as indicated above is a lady of
gracious presence and varied culture, being not only a graduate of the schools
in the place of her birth, but also an alumni of the Cleveland Art school, one
of the noted institutions of the kind in this country. She possesses artistic
talent of a high order and is a leader and authority in this branch of culture
in the city of Kokomo, where she is widely known and socially very much esteemed.

   The doctor discharges the duties of citizenship as becomes an intelligent,
broad-minded American of the times, being interested in the growth and
development of his adopted city and a friend to all enterprises and measures for
its advancement along material lines to say nothing of his deep interest in all
that makes for the intellectual development and moral welfare of the populace.
He is a Republican, but has never entered the domain of party politics, voting
his principles, expressing his opinions, fearlessly when necessary but steering
clear of the amphitheater in which partisan feelings and rancour too often find
expression. Fraternally he belongs to the Masonic Brotherhood and religiously
holds membership with the Congregational church in which he now fills the office
of deacon, his wife being also an active and useful communicant of the same
congregation with which he is identified, and deeply interested in its various
lines of religious and benevolent and charitable work.


Additional Comments:
From:

HISTORY OF HOWARD COUNTY INDIANA
BY
JACKSON MORROW, B. A.
ILLUSTRATED
VOL. II
B. F. BOWEN & COMPANY
INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA

(circa 1909)


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