... Rev. John Milton Hamilton, father of Mrs. Dr. Matthews, was born in Ashland county, Ohio, May 16, 1842. He resided on the farm until eighteen years of age, in the meantime attending the district schools. He then entered the Hayesville Academy at Hayesville, and in 1865 entered Washington and Jefferson College, graduating therefrom with the class of 1866. In the fall of that year he entered the Western Theological College at Allegheny City, graduating therefrom in the spring of 1869. He settled in his first charge at Corsice, Jefferson county, Pennsylvania, Presbyterian denomination, and was ordained and installed in that place by the church, June, 1869, remaining three years. He then went to Plum Creek, Blairsville, Presbytery (district), where he remained for sixteen years. He then settled in New Florence, Westmoreland county, where he was pastor of the Presbyterian church until 1896, when he retired from the ministry, and is now leading a retired life. Rev. John Milton Hamilton married, September 30, 1869, Julia A. Loomis, of Allegheny City, daughter of Robert C. and Jane (McCurdy) Loomis, and four children were the issue of this marriage...
