Biographies Adair County, KY   William H. HAMILTON  born 02-Nov-1857

Submitted by: Sandi Gorin
 http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00002.html#0000404
Submission Date: 01-Feb-2005
Source: Kentucky: “A History of the State”, by, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin

William H. HAMILTON, the only merchant in the village of Breeding's and a
native of Metcalfe County, was born 02-Nov-1857. His father, William Hamilton,
also a native of Metcalfe and a life-long farmer, was born 01-Jun-1829.
In 1853 he married Miss Melissa F. KINNAIRD, a daughter of Harrison and
Isaphena (PATTERSON) KINNAIRD, the former a Kentuckian, the latter a Virginian.
Their marriage was blessed by the birth of one child - William H. (subject).
He owns and cultivates a well improved, fertile farm of 125 acres, on which he
has placed a log and frame residence and good general improvements. Mr. and
Mrs. HAMILTON are both members of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. Harrison
KINNAIRD was a Virginia farmer, and the son of David and Polly KINNAIRD.
William HAMILTON, grandfather of William H., a native of the Old Dominion and a
farmer, immigrated to Metcalfe County in early life, where he entered 150 acres
of the forest, erected a log cabin of the pioneer style of architecture, and
began the life of a Kentucky farmer. He married Miss BUTLER, of Virginia, which
marriage occurred in Kentucky, and to them were born six children, by name John,
Edward, Susan, wife of Samuel MARRS; William, Benjamin and Elizabeth, wife of
John PRICE - of whom only William and Susan are now living. The death of
William Hamilton occurred in his seventy-fourth year, and that of his wife in
the seventy-first year of her age. In life they were members of the Cumberland
Presbyterian Church. William H. HAMILTON in youth received a good English
education in the three-months schools of Metcalfe County and in the high school
of Edmonton, where he attended one session of ten months. His early life, until
seventeen years of age, was spent in agricultural pursuits, and at the age of
eighteen taught one school of three months. He then began selling goods for J.
H. KINNAIRD, of Red Lick, which he continued thirty months. In 1880 he embarked
in the general merchandising business in Breeding's, with a capital of $1,100.
He has since continued the business very successfully, and now does a very large
business, with a flourishing trade of $20,000 per annum sales. His stock, which
consists of groceries, dry goods, hardware, drugs, and a general line of
merchandise, is valued at $6,000, and besides the merchandising business he buys
tobacco, this year to the extend of 125,000 pounds. Mr. HAMILTON was united in
marriage in Jul-1880, to Miss Theo K. WOODWARD, a daughter of Julius and Mary
J (MARRS) WOODWARD, natives of Metcalfe County, and their marriage has been
blessed by one child, Gilford Etrick, born in Jun-1881. Mrs. HAMILTON is a
member of the Baptist Church, while Mr. HAMILTON, who is not a member of any
church, believes in the doctrines of Presbyterianism. He is politically a member
of the Democratic party. He owns a small farm of 125 acres near Breeding's, and
his estate is worth about $8,000.

Surnames: BUTLER, HAMILTON, KINNAIRD, MARRS, PATTERSON, PRICE, WOODWARD

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