{"id":1090,"date":"2015-11-08T11:37:18","date_gmt":"2015-11-08T17:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/?p=1090"},"modified":"2017-06-10T07:53:35","modified_gmt":"2017-06-10T12:53:35","slug":"tilmon-a-hamilton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/tilmon-a-hamilton\/","title":{"rendered":"HAMILTON, Tilmon A."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Tilmon A. HAMILTON<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, farmer, stock dealer and lumber manufacturer, was born in this county November 29, 1840, the son of <strong>Joshua and Elzira (Dobbs) HAMILTON<\/strong>, the former born in 1798, in this county, and died in 1847; the latter born in 1800, in the same county. \u00a0The grandfather came from Ireland to Tennessee, and was a surgeon in the war of 1812. \u00a0The father was a farmer and stock dealer, and a magistrate for thirteen years. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Our subject, the second of five children, was fairly educated, and remained with his mother on the homestead until June, 1862, when he became a teamster for the Union Army, and afterward forage master for <strong>Gen. G.W. MORGAN\u2019<\/strong>s command. \u00a0October 30, 1866, he married <strong>Catharine R. SCOTT.<\/strong> \u00a0Their children are <strong>John D., William V. and Macellus M<\/strong>. \u00a0Since the war he has been farming, trading, and manufacturing lumber with success. \u00a0He is a Mason, a Democrat, and has been magistrate since 1876. \u00a0He and his wife are Methodists. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Goodspeed Publishing Co.\u00a0<i>History of Tennessee from the Earliest Time to the Present: Together with an Historical and a Biographical Sketch of from Twenty-Five to Thirty Counties of East Tennessee<\/i>. Chicago: Goodspeed, 1887.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tilmon A. HAMILTON, farmer, stock dealer and lumber manufacturer, was born in this county November 29, 1840, the son of Joshua and Elzira (Dobbs) HAMILTON, the former born in 1798, in this county, and died in 1847; the latter born in 1800, in the same county. \u00a0The grandfather came from Ireland to Tennessee, and was &#8230; <a title=\"HAMILTON, Tilmon A.\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/tilmon-a-hamilton\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about HAMILTON, Tilmon A.\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3666],"tags":[3741,3743,3740,3745,3739,3744,3742],"class_list":["post-1090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-claiborne","tag-dobbs-eliza","tag-hamilton-john-d","tag-hamilton-joshua","tag-hamilton-macellus-m","tag-hamilton-tilmon-a","tag-hamilton-william-v","tag-scott_-catharine-r"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1090"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1091,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1090\/revisions\/1091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}