BIO:  Calvin HAMILTON, Gettysburg, Adams County, PA

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History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania
Chicago:  Warner, Beers & Co., 1886
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Part III, History of Adams County, Page 355

CALVIN HAMILTON, principal of the public schools, Gettysburg, was born near that 
place November 29, 1841, a son of William and Evaline (Bayly) Hamilton.  His 
paternal and maternal ancestors were among the early Scotch settlers of the 
State, the Hamiltons having resided in Adams County since 1765, and were among 
the first merchants in the county.  His great-grandfather enlisted in the 
Revolutionary war from Adams County, and served under Gen. Washington.  William 
Hamilton was at one time clerk of the courts of Adams County.  Our subject is 
one of eight children, six of whom are now living.  He grew to manhood in his 
native town, whose graded schools he attended, and for a time was a student at 
Pennsylvania College, which he left in --------------- graduation, and enlisted 
in Company K of the Pennsylvania Reserves; ---------------- the battle of 
Gettysburg, in 1863, while defending his native town.  ----- --covering from his 
wound he was mustered into and served in the Veteran Reserve Corps until the 
close of the war.  On retiring to civil life he attended for a time the State 
Normal School, then located at Newville; subsequently he went to Illinois, and 
was there engaged in teaching for six years, when he retured to Pennsylvania, 
and for three years taught school at New Oxford.  Since 1879 Prof. Hamilton has 
been a teacher in the schools of Gettysburg.  In 1883 he was married to Miss 
Anna K. Hanaway, daughter of Ephraim Hanaway, of English descent.  In politics 
the Professor is a Republican, and is now serving his fourth term as assistant 
burgess of Gettysburg.  Both are identified with the Presbyterian Church, in 
which he has been an elder and a teacher in the Sabbath-school.  He is a member 
of the G. A. R.