Westmoreland County PA Archives Biographies.....Hamill, Herman January 19, 1857

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HERMAN HAMILL. Among the many different kinds of business there are none of more
importance than the lumber trade, and one who is engaged in this branch of
commercial enterprise is Herman Hamill of Laurelville.

    He is a son of William and Helena (Seibert) Hamill and was born in the State
of Hesse (German, Hessen) Germany, January 19, 1857. His grandfathers Hamill and
Seibert were natives and residents of Germany. They were strict Lutherans in
religions belief. William Hamill, father, was born about 1825 and is a very fine
scholar. He has been a teacher in and principal of the schools of Belter
Shausen, Germany, for the last forty-eight years. He is a lutheran and owns a
small farm. He has been married twice. For his first wife he married Helena
Seibert, who died in 1866. They had seven children: Lizzie, wife of William
Reisbeck, of Philadelphia; Prof. Carl, principal of a high school in Germany;
William, a captain in the German army; Herman, Martin, a teacher, and two who
died in infancy.

    For his second wife he married a Miss Price, by whom he has had two children
Katie and George who died when young.

    Herman Hamill received a very good education in the schools of Reiter
Shausen where his teacher was his father. In 1872 he and his sister came to
Greensburg where he worked at butchering till 1878 when he engaged in that
business for himself. In 1887 he removed to Laurelville and in partnership with
Mr. Koontz purchased two hundred and sixty-five acres of heavily-timbered land.
Mr. Hamill is actively engaged in cutting this timber and sawing it into lumber
which he is constantly shipping to many different points. While in the
butchering business at Greensburg he bought and shipped cattle to the eastern
markets and during one summer put up a great many hay elevators throughout the
county.

    On March 22, 1870, he married Sophia Bonner, daughter of Rernard Bonner of
near Greensburg. They are the parents of four children:   Helen and Mabel M.
(twins), born June 24, 1880; Lizzie, born November 1, 1881, and William Carl,
born April 7, 1886.

    Politically Mr. Hamill is a democrat, he is a member of the First Lutheran
church of Mt. Pleasant and is one of the energetic and successful business men
of his community.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from
Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania
Compiled and Published by John M. Gresham & Co.
Samuel T. Wiley, Chief Assistant
1890


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