Ray County, Missouri Biographies - Henry B. Hamilton (b. 1822)

Source: History of Ray County, Missouri 1881; p.631

DR. H. B. HAMILTON

Henry B. Hamilton was born in Lincoln county, Kentucky, July 18, 1822. His parents, Thomas and
Rachel Hamilton, were also natives of Kentucky, and immigrated from that state to Ray county,
Missouri, when Henry was about ten years old. After completing the course of study taught in the
schools of his adopted county, our subject returned to Kentucky and entered the medical department
of Transylvania University, and graduated from that institution of learning in 1847. He returned
to Ray county and commenced the practice of his chosen profession, and has continued it ever since
with abundant success. Dr. Hamilton was married May 8, 1849, to Miss Elizabeth R. Craig, by 
Rev. John Walker of the Christian Union Church, in Ray county, Missouri. Mrs. Hamilton is the
daughter of John and Susannah Craig. She was born December 25, 1833. Her father was a native of
the state of Pennsylvania, her mother of North Carolina. Dr. and Mrs. Hamilton became the parents
of two children: Charles L., born October 22, 1858; Claude C., born April 17, 1866. Dr. Hamilton
was engaged in merchandising in company with J. R. Green, at Hainesvill, in Clinton county, Missouri,
from 1853 to 1857. He then occupied and improved a tract of land which he had entered in Caldwell
county, Missouri. This farm he exchanged for a stock of goods and engaged in merchandising again for
about a year, at Kingston, Caldwell county, and then came to Richmond and engaged in the same 
business for the space of one year. He then returned to his farm where he has ever since lived,
occupied in attending to the duties of his large practice. His son Charles L., graduated from the
St. Louis Medical College in the spring of 1880, and is now associated with his father in the
practice of medicine. Both father and son belong to the allopathic school of medicine.



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