OBIT: William L. HAMILTON, 1900, of interest in Blair County, PA

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WILLIAM L. HAMILTON.

  Saturday morning at 4 o'clock Associate Judge William L. Hamilton 
died at his home in Lock Haven, of heart failure, having been confined 
to his room for seven weeks.  He was 68 years of age and is survived by 
his wife and five children, three of these being residents of Altoona.  
They are: John T. Hamilton, principal of the John A. Wright school; 
Miss Jessie Hamilton, assistant librarian in  he Mechanics' library, 
and William, who is in the employ of the Pennsylvania Railroad company.  
He was a descendant of Revolutionary stock, his great-grandfather, 
Captain Alexander Hamilton, being killed by Indians in 1781, a short 
distance above Northumberland.  In politics Mr. Hamilton was a 
republican.  In 1861 he was elected prothonotary of Clinton county, and 
while he was renominated three years later, he was defeated, although 
he led his ticket.  In 1896 he was elected associate judge, an office 
which he held at the time of his death.  The funeral will take place at 
Lock Haven at 2 o'clock this afternoon.

Morning Tribune, Monday, January 22, 1900