Westmoreland County PA Archives Biographies.....Hamilton, J. Milton May 16, 1812

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REV. J. MILTON HAMILTON, the popular pastor of the Presbyterian church at New
Florence, is of Scotch-Irish lineage, was born in Ashland county, Ohio, May 16,
1812, and is a son of Hanson Hamilton who was a farmer by occupation and a
native of Washington county, Pa., and was born in February, 1788. In 1818 he
migrated to Ohio, where he purchased a large farm and quietly lived the life of
a farmer until his death, on December 8, 1871. His wife, Sarah, was a daughter
of James Davis of Washington county, Pa. She died in May, 1889, at the advanced
age of ninety-five years. William Hamilton (grandfather) was a Washington county
pioneer; he settled on a farm near West Middletown, was a soldier in the war of
the Revolution and came to Pennsylvania from the north of Ireland.

   On December 30, 1869, Rev. J. Milton Hamilton was married to Julia Loomis, a
daughter of Robert C., an iron merchant, and Jane (McCurdy) Loomis of Pittsburg,
Pa. Four children have been born to their union: Mary L., born October 1, 1871;
Robert L., July 28, 1873; Jennie, November 26, 1875, and Estella, November 21,
1877. He attended the public schools and afterwards the academy at Haysville. In
1865 he entered Washington and Jefferson colleges of Pennsylvania and was
graduated from there in the class of 1866. In the fall of the same year he
became a divinity student at the Western Theological seminary at Allegheny, Pa.,
and from which he was graduated in the Spring of 1869. His first pastoral charge
was at Corsica and Greenville, preaching every alternate Sabbath at either place
in Clarion county. At the end of two years he resigned on account of ill health
and for the two years following he did no work. He next entered the Blairsville
presbytery and took charge of the Plum creek Presbyterian church where he
successfully labored in the interests of that church for a period of fourteen
years. In 1888 he came to New Florence and now has charge of the church at that
place and the Armagh Presbyterian church in Indiana county. Rev. Hamilton is a
thorough gentleman, a man of superior intelligence, strong and forcible in the
pulpit and is very popular with the members of his church.


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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