Bucks County PA Archives Biographies.....Hamilton, R. W.
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Source: History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania; edited by 
J.H. Battle; A. Warner & Co.; 1887
Doylestown A-L


R. W. HAMILTON retired, P. O. Doylestown, was born in County 
Donegal, Ireland, April 20, 1815, and is a son of John and 
Elizabeth (Hamilton) Hamilton, natives of Ireland.   His 
father and four brothers served in the English army and 
navy.  His father served in the army nearly all his life, 
commencing when quite young.  Our subject remained at home 
until 1837.  In the fall of that year he took passage on the 
sailing vessel "Old Pocahontas," under Capt. James West.  He 
landed in Philadelphia November 20, 1837, having been 
sixty-three days on the voyage.  After arriving here he 
sought employment in a dry goods commission house as 
salesman.  He was in the mercantile business in Philadelphia 
until 1857, when being out of health he retired from 
business.  In the same year he came to Bucks county, located 
in New Britain, and bought a farm and was a successful 
farmer.  He remained there until 1867, when he removed to 
Doylestown township and bought a property of ten acres near 
Cross Keys, and resided there until 1872, when he bought the 
property where he now resides.  He has improved the place 
until it is now one of the most pleasant in the borough.  He 
was married in 1855 to Elizabeth Ennis, by whom he had one 
child, Richard Willard, who died when young.  Mr. and Mrs. 
Hamilton are members of the Presbyterian church.