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SURNAMES: HENDERSON
Linville
E. Hamilton, son of Asa and Lydia Hamilton, was born in Wellington, Lorain
County, Ohio, March 14, 1844. His
father was a native of Vermont, born in 1799, and was one of the first settlers
in Wellington Township, in that county in 1823, and lived there till his death,
April 4, 1866. After his death his
widow moved to the oil regions of Pennsylvania, where she died, in 1881. Linville lived in Wellington till he was
twenty-one years old. He worked with
his father, who was a carpenter and joiner, until sixteen years of age, when he
was apprenticed to learn the carpenter’s trade. In 1862 he enlisted in Company C, 86th Ohio Infantry,
and was honorably discharged in the winter of 1863, whereupon he re-enlisted in
Company C, 176th Ohio Infantry, and served till the close of the
war. He served through the campaigns of
the Army of the Cumberland, and was discharged in 1865. After the death of his father he went to Pennsylvania with his mother and
remained there till 1878, when he went to Humboldt, Humboldt County, Iowa, and
went to work at his trade. He was
married there in June, 1881, to Jennie L. Henderson, a native of Canada, of Scotch
descent. In 1883 he came to California,
reaching Los Gatos September 4, where he has lived and worked at his trade ever
since. They have one son, William
Wallace, born August 18, 1882.
Pen Pictures From The
Garden of the World or Santa Clara County, California, Illustrated. - Edited by H. S. Foote.- Chicago: The Lewis
Publishing Company, 1888.
Pg. 303
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler
Proofread by Betty Vickroy
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