Alexander Hamilton (March 18, 1851 - February 4, 1916) was a railroad lawyer and businessman, who served as a president of The Virginia Bar Association, and as a delegate to the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1901-1902.
Alexander Hamilton (March 18, 1851 - February 4, 1916) was a railroad lawyer and businessman, who served as a president of The Virginia Bar Association, and as a delegate to the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1901-1902.
Alexander Hamilton was born in Williamsboro, North Carolina on March 18, 1851. He graduated from the Virginia Military Institute in 1871, and was an assistant professor of Latin and tactics there for two years. [1]
He was married three times, to Mary Stuart Donnan, Kate M. Venable, and Helen Leslie McGill. [1]
He died at his home in Petersburg, Virginia on February 4, 1916, and was buried at Blandford Cemetery. [2]
The Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton Railway (CH&D) was a railroad based in the U.S. state of Ohio that existed between its incorporation on March 2, 1846, and its acquisition by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in December 1917. It was originally chartered to build from Cincinnati to Hamilton, Ohio, and then to Dayton, a distance of 59 mi (95 km); further construction and acquisition extended the railroad, and by 1902 it owned or controlled 640 mi (1,030 km) of railroad. Its stock and bond value plunged in late 1905 after "financial mismanagement of the properties" was revealed.
The Washington and Old Dominion Railroad was an intrastate short-line railroad located in Northern Virginia. The railroad was a successor to the bankrupt Washington and Old Dominion Railway and to several earlier railroads, the first of which began operating in 1859. The railroad closed in 1968.
The Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad, commonly called the Pan Handle Route, was a railroad that was part of the Pennsylvania Railroad system. Its common name came from its main line, which began at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, crossed the Northern Panhandle of West Virginia, and continued west to Bradford, Ohio, where it split into a northern line to Chicago and a southern one through Indianapolis, Indiana, to East St. Louis, Illinois.
Sir Charles Augustus Murray PC KCB was a British author and diplomat.
Colin Hamilton Livingstone was an American banker and a president of the Washington and Old Dominion Railway, the Virginia Shipbuilding Corporation in Alexandria, and the Washington and Virginia Real Estate Company. He was also the first national president of the Boy Scouts of America (BSA).
Theodoor Hendrik Nikolaas de Booy was a Dutch-born American archaeologist.
John Church Hamilton was a historian, biographer, and lawyer. He was a son of Alexander Hamilton, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States.
Fairfax Harrison was an American lawyer, businessman, and writer. The son of the secretary to Confederate President Jefferson Davis, Harrison studied law at Yale University and Columbia University before becoming a lawyer for the Southern Railway Company in 1896. By 1906 he was Southern's vice-president of finance, and in 1907 he helped secure funding to keep the company solvent. In 1913 he was elected president of Southern, where he instituted a number of reforms in the way the company operated.
The United States Senate elections of 1850 and 1851 were elections which had the Democratic Party lose seats, but retain a majority in the United States Senate.
The United States Senate elections of 1898 and 1899 were landslide elections which had the Republican Party gain six seats in the United States Senate.
Helen Morgan Hamilton was a socialite, Army officer, granddaughter of investment banker J.P. Morgan and a descendant of Alexander Hamilton.
Alexander W. Monroe was a prominent American lawyer, politician, and military officer in the U.S. states of Virginia and West Virginia. Monroe served as a member of the Virginia House of Delegates and West Virginia House of Delegates representing Hampshire County. He was the Speaker of the West Virginia House of Delegates during the 1875–1877 legislative session. Monroe also represented Hampshire County in the West Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1872.
This is a list of members of the New South Wales Legislative Council from 1843 to 1851. The 1843 Electoral Act prescribed 36 members, 24 to be elected, 6 appointed by virtue of their office and 6 nominated. The appointments and elections were for five year terms and thus occurred in 1843,</ref> and 1848. The parliament was dissolved on 30 June 1851 as a result of the 1851 Electoral Act which increased the number of members in the Council to 54.
This is a list of members of the New South Wales Legislative Council from 1851 to 1856. The 1851 Electoral Act increased the number of members in the Council to 54, 18 to be appointed and 36 elected. The initial appointments were made in October 1851.</ref>
Philip Hamilton was the youngest child of Alexander Hamilton, who was the first U.S. Secretary of the Treasury and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. He was named in memory of his oldest brother, also Philip Hamilton.
Shaivonte Aician Gilgeous-Alexander is a Canadian professional basketball player for the Oklahoma City Thunder of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
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Aquila Giles was an American lawyer, politician and soldier from Brooklyn who served in the New York State Assembly.
Simeon Brewster Chase was an American politician who served as the Speaker pro tempore of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives and was active in the Prohibition Party.
Alexander Hunter was an American soldier for the Confederate States Army, civil servant, and writer best known for the novels Johnny Reb and Billy Yank and The Women of the Debatable Land.