Eugene D. Hamilton
Eugene D. Hamilton was the son of John Hamilton and Jenette Hamilton. He was born January 15, 1854, in Concord Township, Delaware County, Ohio. He received his early education in the public schools of that township. He prepared himself for a teacher and taught his first school when he was but seventeen years of age. He attended the Ohio Wesleyan University for a time, hut he finished his course and took his degree from the Northwestern University of Chicago, Illinois, about the year 1877. From the time he began to teach, he supported himself in that way and at intervals attended college, taught, and studied law, and he was admitted to the Bar in the year 1878. He immediately opened an office in the city of Delaware and began the practice of his chosen profession. He was married to Miss Alice E. Freshwater on the fifteenth day of January, 1880. He was elected solicitor of the city of Delaware, Ohio, in April, 1880. but he only lived about two months after he had taken his office, his death taking place June 14, 1880.
From 20th Century History of Delaware County, Ohio, and Representative Citizens, Edited and compiled by James R. Lytle, Delaware, Ohio, Biographical Publishing Co., Chicago, 1908