Hamilton family papers, 1841-1978.

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Hamilton family papers, 1841-1978.

Hamilton family collection contains business correspondence, 1841-1978, a family scrapbook, several miscellaneous items, and an unbound copy of the World War II picture magazine, Experience in Battle. Correspondence consists of legal, insurance, receipt, order, transportation, and grain trade documents. Loose scrapbook includes newspaper clippings of family births, deaths, and marriages, as well as military paraphernalia. Family patriarch James Clay Hamilton (1838-1925) was a regionally prominent businessman from Uniontown, Kentucky.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7284420

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Hamilton Family

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Family patriarch James Clay Hamilton, 1838-1925, was a regionally prominent wharf boat proprietor, grain dealer, and insurance salesman from Uniontown, Kentucky, whose associates included businessmen from Morganfield, Paducah, Evansville, Tell City, and Louisville. His correspondence consists of legal, insurance, receipt, order, transportation, and grain trade documents. The Hamilton family was connected to several notable persons via marriage and business. A loose scrapbook includes newspaper c...

Hamilton, J. C. (James Charles), 1836-1927

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