... Chester, born December 18, 1838. See special biography. ...
... CHESTER HAMILTON, the fifth child of Cyrus and Mary Hamilton, was born December 18, 1838. He acquired a good common- school education at the public schools of his native township, and remained at home, where he gained a practical knowledge of farm management, at a period when improved methods and new devices began to mark the present system of agriculture.
At the age of twenty-eight years, he was united in marriage with Miss Mary E. Mitchell, daughter of Thomas V. Mitchell, of Rush County, Ind. Their children are:
- Thomas M.
- George C.
- Edith.
- Amanda.
He has a handsome brick residence, which was built in 1878, It is on the site of the old home where Cyrus Hamilton resided, and is finely furnished and tastefully arranged. Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton are progressive in their ideas of life, and believe that each generation should improve on the one which preceded it; consequently, their home and premises are well stocked with the literature and improvements of the day. In short, he is an intelligent and thrifty modern farmer, who keeps up with the times. He is a member of the Presbyterian Church, and an earnest advocate of the best and most improved systems of public schools, and of whatever wall strengthen and perpetuate the institutions of a free government. His father gave him eighty acres of the old home farm, to which he has added by purchase enough to make a half-section, or 320 acres, of fine farming lands. ...
