American soldier, born in Providence, RI, on the 4th of May 1803. He was a graduate of the United States Military Academy. After several years of garrison and special duty he was sent to Florida in 1836; became quartermaster-general of Florida in 1837; chief quartermaster on the staff of General Wool, with rank of major, in 1846; served through the Mexican War; was chief quartermaster of the Department of the West (1852–56); and of the Department of Texas till 1861. When the war broke out he was taken prisoner by the Confederates, but exchanged in a few months, and during the rest of the War served as deputy quartermaster-general and chief quartermaster of New York. In 1864 he was brevetted brigadier-general; was appointed assistant quartermaster-general in 1866, and retired in the same year. He died at Stamford, CT, on the 21st of February 1873.—His brother Alexander Hamilton, an American clergyman, was born in Providence on the 2nd of May 1807. He was educated at Brown University and Yale Medical School. After practicing in Pomfret (1828–32) he took up the study of theology at the Protestant Episcopal Seminary in New York; was pastor at Portland, ME (1835–36); Providence (1836–42); Boston (1842–58); Philadelphia (1858–61); New York (1861–70); and Boston (1870–77). He was one of the leaders of the Low Church party, and published Lectures on Evidences of Christianity (1855), besides a couple of volumes of sermons. He died in Philadelphia, PA, on the 26th of April 1881.—Another brother, Francis, soldier and clergyman, was born in Providence on the 29th of August 1809. He was educated at West Point, and after doing duty at Fort Snelling, MN, he was stationed at Boston, where, during his leisure hours, he studied law at Harvard. Then he served against the Indians in Alabama and Florida; resigned in 1836 to study for the ministry; after taking the course at General Theological Seminary, New York; was ordained a priest (1839); was rector in Providence and Newport (1840–44); Brooklyn (1844–56); assistant at Trinity Church, New York (1855–59); and professor of ecclesiastical law and polity at General Theological Seminary (1869). He published Arthur Tremaine; or, Annals of Cadet Life (1830); Lectures on the Evidences of Christianity (1865); and a Manual Commentary on the General Canon Law of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States (1870). He died in Brooklyn on the 29th of September 1872.
