Transcription contributed by Martie Callihan 8 December 2004

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WILLIAM H. HAMILTON, retired, Lebanon; was born in Greene Co., Penn., about one mile from Waynesburg, Oct 31,1795; his father, Robert Hamilton, was born in Banbridge, County Down, Ireland, May 16, 1760; came to America about 1774, and was a soldier in the Revolutionary war, being much of the time under command of Gen. Anthony Wayne; he served until the close of the war, when he married Susannah Kean; he worked as a blacksmith in Lancaster Co., Penn., and about 1791 removed to Greene Co., Penn., where he married Ann Hays, a native of Berkeley Co., Va; in 1797, he moved to Morgantown, Va; 1803, to Trumbull Co., Ohio, where he lived until 1815, when he moved to Warren County and settled one mile west of Millgrove, where he lived until his death, in 1841. By his first marriage he had six children; by his second one child, the subject of this sketch. William H. came to Warren County in 1815 with his father; he worked for a while as a blacksmith, but soon changed his trade to that of a carpenter and builder, which he followed for about forty five years, and did much work as a builder of bridges and mills; he was for about four years Superintendent of the bridges on the line of the Little Miami Railroad from Cincinnati to Columbus, and afterward on the Marietta and Cincinnati Railroad from Loveland to Marietta; on the latter road he superintended the construction of thirteen important bridges; he was an officer in the militia for seven years, being an Ensign, Captain, Adjutant and Lieutenant Colonel, and is generally known as Capt. Hamilton. For twelve years he