Biographical Sketch of Millard F. HAMILL (1893); Chester County, PA Contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by John Morris . *********************************************************************** USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: Printing this file within by non-commercial individuals and libraries is encouraged, as long as all notices and submitter information is included. Any other use, including copying files to other sites requires permission from the submitters PRIOR to uploading to any other sites. We encourage links to the state and county table of contents. http://www.usgwarchives.net/ *********************************************************************** Source: "Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Chester County, Pennsylvania, comprising a historical sketch of the county," by Samuel T. Wiley and edited by Winfield Scott Garner, Gresham Publishing Company, Philadelphia, PA, 1893, pp. 740-1. "MILLARD F. HAMILL, cashier of the Parkesburg National bank, at Parkesburg, and a rising young business man of reputation and ability, is a son of Robert and Eliza (Baldwin) Hamill, and was born in Highland township, Chester county, Pennsylvania, September 26, 1850. The Hamills are of Scotch-Irish ancestry, this branch being planted in America by Robert Hamill, great-grandfather, a native of north Ireland, who left the Emerald Isle about 1750, to seek a home in the United States. Soon after landing in this country he settled in what is now Highland township, this county. He was a farmer by occupation, and died at his home in that township about 1803, at the advanced age of eighty-four years. He spent all his active life in agricultural pursuits and became quite prosperous, owning a considerable quantity of land in Highland township. He was for many years a prominent member of Fagg's Manor Presbyterian church, a republican in politics, and served a number of terms as justice of the peace. He had a fair knowledge of the law and a fine sense of justice, and his de- cisions were seldom, if ever, reversed. He was a man of sound judgment, whose advice was frequently sought by neighbors and friends. He married Eliza Baldwin, a native of Highland township, of German descent, and belonged to one of the old families of this county. She died in 1885, aged seventy-one years, greatly esteemed by all her neighbors. "Millard F. Hamill was reared principally on his father's farm, receiving his education at the academy in Cochranville and the old Parkesburg academy. Leaving school and the farm at the age of nineteen, he engaged in clerking and was thus employed in different mercantile establishments until 1872, when he accepted a position as clerk in the private banking house of Parke, Smith & Co., at Parkesburg. In 1883 he became cashier of this institution (it having in the meantime been made a National bank), and has occupied that responsible position ever since. He is a man of fine business qualifications, an accurate accountant, and stands among the foremost young business men of this section, having already won the entire confidence of his associates and met with a flat- tering degree of success in life. "In October, 1878, Mr. Hamill was united in marriage to Eva Walton, a daughter of Joseph Walton, of Cochranville, this county. To their union has been born a familly of two children, one son and a daughter: Mable E., and A. Carroll. "In his political affiliations Mr. Hamill is republican, but has never taken an active part in politics. He is a member of the Upper Octoraro Presbyterian church, and of Keystone Lodge, No. 569, Free and Accepted Masons, of Parkes- burg. In addition to his other duties, he is now serving as treasurer of the Parkesburg Water Company, and is also treasurer of the borough of Parkesburg."