Hamilton (Family : Ft. Wayne, Ind.)

Allen Hamilton (1798-1864) came to America from Northern Ireland when he was eighteen years old (probably in 1818) and settled in the area that became Fort Wayne, Indiana. He traded with Native Americans, opened a dry goods store, and eventually became a banker. In 1828 he married Emerine Jane Holman (1810-1889), the daughter of Jesse Lynch Holman and Elizabeth (Masterson) Holman. They had 10 children: Eliza Hamilton (1832-1835), Andrew Holman Hamilton (1834-1895), Bessie Allen Hamilton (1836-1839), Thomas Hamilton (1838-1840), Erin Hamilton (1841-1842), Montgomery Hamilton (1843-1909), Mary Hamilton Williams (1845-1922), Emerine Jane Hamilton (1848-1856), Ellen Holman Hamilton Wagenhals (1853-1922), and Margaret Vance Hamilton (1854-1931). Andrew Holman Hamilton married Phoebe Ann Taber Hamilton (1841-1932); they had five children, Katherine Hamilton (1863-1932), Jessie Marie Hamilton (1865-1960), Agnes Hamilton (1868-1961), Allen Hamilton (1874-1961), and Taber Hamilton (1876-1942). Montgomery Hamilton married Gertrude Corrine Pond Hamilton (1840-1917); they had five children, Edith Hamilton (1867-1963), Alice Hamilton (1869-1970), Margaret Hamilton (1871-1969), Norah Hamilton (1873-1945), and Arthur Quintus Hamilton (1886-1967). Mary Hamilton Williams married Henry Martyn Williams (1843-1917); they had two children, Allen Hamilton Williams (1868-1960) and Creighton Hamilton Williams. Ellen Holman Hamilton Wagenhals married Samuel Wagenhals (1843-1920); they had six children, Margaret Hamilton Wagenhals (1881-1974), Katherine Hamilton Wagenhals (1883-1966), Herbert H. Wagenhals (1885-1966), Mildred Hamilton Wagenhals (1888-1973), Winfred R. Wagenhals (1891-1893), and Hildegarde Hamilton Wagenhals Bowen (1894-1979).