Robert Hamilton was born near the manufacturing and seaport city of Belfast, in County Down, Ireland, and came, about 1798, to Cumberland county, this State, but soon afterward removed to Frankstown township, where he remained until 1818. In that year he purchased and removed to the farm in Logan township now occupied by the subject of this sketch, on which he resided until his death, which occurred in 1849, when he was in the seventy-eighth year of his age. He was one of the most extensive farmers of his day in Logan township, where he owned his home farm of one hundred and ninety acres and another farm, the larger part of which is now within the city limits of Altoona. He was a democrat and afterward a whig in politics, and a member of the Hollidaysburg Presbyterian church, and his house was the stopping place and home, for the time being, of all the ministers of his church who passed through Altoona. He was energetic and hospitable, and married Nancy Smith, a native of Franklin county, and a Presbyterian in religious faith, who passed away in 1858, at the advanced age of seventy-six years. They reared a family of eight children, five sons and three daughters, of whom four sons and two daughters are living: Mary, widow of
James Hutchison, of Altoona; James, a resident of Illinois; Jonathan; John, of Altoona, whose sketch appears elsewhere in this volume; William S., of Lawrence county, Pennsylvania; and Sarah A.
James Hutchison, of Altoona; James, a resident of Illinois; Jonathan; John, of Altoona, whose sketch appears elsewhere in this volume; William S., of Lawrence county, Pennsylvania; and Sarah A.
Robert Hamilton was born near the manufacturing and seaport city of Belfast, in County Down, Ireland, and came, about 1798, to Cumberland county, this State, but soon afterward removed to Frankstown township, where he remained until 1818. In that year he purchased and removed to the farm in Logan township now occupied by the subject of this sketch, on which he resided until his death, which occurred in 1849, when he was in the seventy-eighth year of his age. He was one of the most extensive farmers of his day in Logan township, where he owned his home farm of one hundred and ninety acres and another farm, the larger part of which is now within the city limits of Altoona. He was a democrat and afterward a whig in politics, and a member of the Hollidaysburg Presbyterian church, and his house was the stopping place and home, for the time being, of all the ministers of his church who passed through Altoona. He was energetic and hospitable, and married Nancy Smith, a native of Franklin county, and a Presbyterian in religious faith, who passed away in 1858, at the advanced age of seventy-six years. They reared a family of eight children, five sons and three daughters, of whom four sons and two daughters are living: Mary, widow of
James Hutchison, of Altoona; James, a resident of Illinois; Jonathan; John, of Altoona, whose sketch appears elsewhere in this volume; William S., of Lawrence county, Pennsylvania; and Sarah A.
James Hutchison, of Altoona; James, a resident of Illinois; Jonathan; John, of Altoona, whose sketch appears elsewhere in this volume; William S., of Lawrence county, Pennsylvania; and Sarah A.
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