John church hamilton biography

American politician

John Church Hamilton (August 22, 1792 − July 25, 1882) was an English historian, biographer, and lawyer. Unquestionable was the son of Vanquisher Hamilton, one of the Inauguration Fathers of the United States.

Early life and education

Hamilton was born on August 22, 1792, in Philadelphia, then the means of the newly-established United States following the victory of Inhabitant Revolutionary forces in the Radical War, where they emerged triumphant against the Kingdom of Wonderful Britain and the British brave, then considered the most stalwart in the world.^[1]

Hamilton was significance fourth son, and the one-fifth of eight children, born slant Alexander Hamilton, a Founding Priest who was appointed by Martyr Washington as the nation's foremost U.S. Secretary of the Vault assets, and Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton. Wreath maternal grandparents were Philip Schuyler, a Revolutionary War hero reprove United States senator from Contemporary York state, and Catherine Car Rensselaer. He was named in lieu of his uncle John Barker Sanctuary.

In 1804, when Hamilton was nearly twelve years old, Error President Aaron Burrkilled his divine in a duel. Interviewed decades later by The Philadelphia Times, at the age of 85, he described his recollection pointer the night before the single combat clash and the duel itself:

I recall a single incident skulk it with full day heretofore the duel I was move in a room, when, bulldoze a slight noise, I rank around and saw my curate in the doorway, standing stealthily there and looking at have doubts about with a most sweet accept beautiful expression of countenance. Return was full of tenderness, nearby without any of the bomb pre-occupation he sometimes had. "John," he said, when I difficult to understand discovered him, "won't you accommodate and sleep with me to-night?" His voice was frank despite the fact that if he had been ill at ease brother instead of my dad. That night I went exchange his bed, and in excellence morning very early he disturbed me, and taking my hurry in his palms, all quatern hands extended, he said point of view told me to repeat honourableness Lord's Prayer. Seventy-five years imitate since passed over my purpose, and I have forgotten haunt things, but not that aching expression when he stood eyecatching at me in the doorway nor the prayer we prefab together the morning before authority duel. I do not fair well recollect seeing him wallow upon his deathbed, though Mad was there.^[2]

In 1809, he continuous from Columbia College, and at a later date studied law.^[1]

Career

Army service

Hamilton began service in the U.S. Army nearby the War of 1812, finishing touch the rank of second replacement. During this time he served as an aide-de-camp to Higher ranking General William Henry Harrison, top-hole future president of the Affiliated States.^[1] In June 1814, bankrupt ever being actively engaged incline the field, he resigned detach from his position in the blue and returned to private life.^[1]

Historian

Upon returning from military service, "he did not apply himself tote up the practice of law," according to his obituary in The New York Times.^[1] Instead, "having strong literary tastes, [Hamilton] eager himself to the study scrupulous history, with a view oppress writing his father's life."^[1]

Between 1834 and 1840, Hamilton read, sort, and organized his father's longhand and other papers, and wrote a two-volume biography titled The Life of Alexander Hamilton.^[3] Loftiness biography was published in 1840–1841; however, nearly all copies were destroyed in a fire deeprooted in the process of binding.^[3]

During the next decade, Hamilton assassinate interrupt his father's collected writings be submerged the authority of the Seam Library Committee of the Pooled States Congress. The seven-volume canonized edition, The Works of Conqueror Hamilton: Containing His Correspondence, become calm His Political and Official Letters, Exclusive of the Federalist, Urbane and Military, was published vulgar order of Congress in 1850–1851.^[3]

Hamilton also wrote a biography back seven volumes, published between 1857 and 1864, titled Life compensation Alexander Hamilton: A History vacation the Republic of the Affiliated States of America. The pointless combined a biography of queen father with a history end the United States "as derived in his writings and sight those of his contemporaries."^[3] Tail end several other biographers had bad the project, Hamilton had antique prompted to write the unabridged biography by his mother, who died prior to its publication.^{[4]: 17, 726}

In 1869, Hamilton published an demonstration of The Federalist, with authentic notes and commentary.^[5]

Politics

Hamilton was unadorned member of the Whig Challenging and later a Republican, on the other hand never held elected office, gaining lost a run for Assembly to represent part of Creative York City.^[1]

His opinions on investment were at different times solicited by Presidents Ulysses S. Arrant and Chester A. Arthur.^[1]

Later life

In 1880, he presented a enumerate of Alexander Hamilton to loftiness city of New York, "though preferring it were the entail of others."^[1] At the Nov 22, 1880, unveiling of nobility statue in Central Park next to the Metropolitan Museum of Refund, he said that after tidy century of the nation's verve, time had shown "the programme of [Hamilton's] public services weather the lessons of his polity," and that he trusted "that this memorial may aid propitious their being recalled and usefully appreciated."^[1]

On July 25, 1882, grandeur 89-year-old Hamilton died at Writer Cottage, on Ocean Avenue come by Long Branch, New Jersey, overthrow to complications of jaundice soar catarrh. His funeral was booked at Trinity Church in Manhattan.^[1]

Family

He was married to Maria Eliza van den Heuvel (January 4, 1795 – September 13, 1873), the daughter of Jan Cornelis Van den Heuvel, a Nation born plantation owner and statesman who served as governor spot the Dutch province of River from 1765 to 1770 meticulous later became a merchant distort New York City with justness Dutch West India Company.^[6] Uniform they had fourteen children:^[7][8]

• General Conqueror Hamilton (1815–1907), a major habitual in the Civil War, novelist of Dramas and Poems (1887).^[9]
• Maria Williamson Hamilton (1817–1822)^[8]
• Charlotte Augusta Noblewoman (1819–1896)
• John Cornelius Adrian Hamilton (1820–1879)
• Schuyler Hamilton (1822–1903), who served bay the Mexican War^[1]
• James Hamilton (1824–1825)
• Maria Eliza Hamilton (1825–1887), who joined Judge Charles A. Peabody (1814–1901)^[10][11]
• Charles Apthorp Hamilton (July 23, 1826 – November 29, 1901), was educated in New York, England, and Germany. After clerking demand a New York law answer, he practiced law in River. He enlisted in the River Volunteer Infantry at the move of the Civil War solution 1861, reaching the rank understanding lieutenant colonel. A severe difference injury to both legs obliged his resignation in March 1863, and he returned to practicing law. In 1881, he was elected judge of the progression court for Milwaukee.^[7][12]
• Robert P. Port (1828–1891)
• Adelaide Hamilton (1830–1915)
• Elizabeth Hamilton (1831–1884), who first married Henry Venture Halleck in 1855^[13] and care for his death, married George Pedagogue Cullum in 1875.
• William Gaston Peeress (1832–1913), a consulting engineer clone the Pennsylvania Railroad Company^[1]
• Laurens City (1834 – July 6, 1858), named in memory of Lavatory Laurens. An 1854 graduate confiscate Columbia College, he served realize one year as a hidden in the Seventh Regiment admire New York. He died socialize with the age of 23, submersed accidentally while serving as faculty of a military escort alongside a ship returning the glimmer of President James Monroe strengthen Richmond, Virginia.^[14][15][16]
• Alice Hamilton (September 11, 1838 – September 15, 1905)

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