John E. Hamilton

Birth Date

1838-08-01

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Covington, Kentucky, attorney. Pennsylvania native. Married to [unknown] Winston Hamilton in 1861. Father of J. E. Hamilton and E. C. Hamilton. Educated at the grammar school of Columbia College in New York, New York. Graduate of Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, in 1856. Read law with Mengies & Pryor in Covington, Kentucky, in 1858. Graduate of Cincinnati Law School in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1860. Attorney in Covington, Kentucky, in 1860.

J. H. Battle, W. H. Perrin, and G. C. Kniffin, Kentucky: A History of the State 7th ed., (Louisville: Battey Publishing, 1887), 810-11.
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