Biographical Sketch of

Thomas Hamilton

Transcribed by Barbara Voss for the Marquette Co WI Pages


Source: Portrait and Biographical Album of Green Lake, Marquette and Waushara Counties, Wisconsin, 
published 1890 by Acme Publishing Co., Chicago, Page 652


Thomas Hamilton is engaged in farming on section 21, in the town of Westfield, Marquette County, where he 
owns a fine farm of 160 acres. His name has been prominently connected with the agricultural records of 
the county for many years and it is with pleasure that we record his sketch in this volume. His possessions 
comprise not only the home farm, but he also owns 320 acres of valuable land in the town of Springfield.

Mr. Hamilton is the eldest son of James and Jane (Bennett) Hamilton and was born in County Down, Ireland, 
on the 29th of December 1833. 

His boyhood days were passed in much the usual manner of farmer lads and until nineteen years of age he 
remained in the land of his birth, but at that age he bade good-bye to friends and accompanied his parents 
to the New World. Great indeed have been the changes which have taken place in Marquette County, during the 
thirty seven years of his residence in the town of Westfield. It was then an almost unsettled wilderness, 
the land was still in its primitive condition and the echoes of the forest had been unawakened by the 
woodman�s ax. He aided in transforming the wild prairies into rich and fertile farms and in all possible 
ways has given his support to the advancement of those enterprises which he believed would benefit the public.

The most important event in the life of Mr. Hamilton occurred November 24, 1864, when he was united in 
marriage with Miss Grace Long, daughter of James and Grace Long. Her parents were natives of County Down, 
Ireland and the month of May 1851 witnessed their arrival in this country. They settled in New York but 
after ten years came to Marquette County, Wisconsin reaching their destination on the 15th of September 
1861 and are still residents of the town of Westfield.

Mrs. Hamilton was born in Ireland in 1847 and by her union has become the mother of three children; Samuel, 
born in 1867; William in 1869; and Edwin in 1875. Mr. Hamilton is one of the representative and valued 
citizens of the town of Westfield and has won the respect and confidence of all by his manly bearing, upright 
life and fidelity to all trust reposed in him. He devotes his entire attention to his farming interests, in 
which he has been quite successful and to the enjoyment of the pleasures of the home circle.






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