BIOGRAPHY: Thomas F. HAMILTON, Cambria County, PA 

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From Wiley, Samuel T., ed. Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Cambria 
County, Pennsylvania. Philadelphia: Union Publishing Co., 1896, p. 168-9
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THOMAS F. HAMILTON, superintendent of the mills of the Gautier department of the 
Cambria Iron company, is a son of Alexander and Mary (Jaquette) Hamilton, and 
was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The ancestral history of Mr. Hamilton 
appears under the heading of Alexander Hamilton, his father.
     The career of Thomas Hamilton has, since the age of fifteen, been closely 
identified with the Cambria Iron company, that wonderful industrial and 
mechanical school to which so many of the successful business men of western 
Pennsylvania owe their training. In 1865, he entered the draughting rooms of 
that company, where he was employed two years when he was transferred to the 
mechanical department, and remained in it six years, and then after a service of 
ten years as a boss roller, was promoted to the position of assistant 
superintendent of the Gautier mills. In every position in which he has been 
placed, Mr. Hamilton has proved himself competent and trustworthy, and in 1890 
was promoted to his present position, a very responsible one, which includes the 
overseeing of a department that gives employment to from twelve hundred to 
fifteen hundred men.
     Although Mr. Hamilton never sought nor held office, yet he takes an active 
interest in the success of the Republican party and its measures, believing that 
it stands for the best interests of the country.
     October 31, 1876, he married Angeline Beacom, a daughter of Rev. H. C. 
Beacom, then located at Washington, Pennsylvania, and to their marriage have 
been born two children: Francis B. and Donald A.