History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, ed. by William Henry Perrin, O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882. p. 594. [Scott County] [Georgetown City and Precinct] J. A. HAMILTON, M.D., Georgetown, was born Nov. 16, 1833, in West Union, Adams Co., Ohio. The Hamiltons came from Virginia and settled in Kentucky at an early day, his father being the only member of his branch of the family who settled in Ohio; his father married Miss Matilda G. Armstrong, and reared two children; his parents dying when he was ten years old, his early education was conducted under the care of his relatives at Midway, Kentucky; he subsequently entered the Ohio Weselyan University, where he completed his literary education, and in 1857 began the study of medicine in Woodford County, under Dr. John Sutton, graduating from the medical department of the University of Louisville, in 1861; entered on the practice of his profession at White Sulphur Springs, in Scott County, in 1870, located at Georgetown, in that county, where he has since resided, closely, actively, and successfully engaged in the medical practice, associated with Dr. John A. Lewis; he has written a number of valuable papers for the journals, and although devoting himself mainly to the duties of his profession, he has given a share of his attention to public interests, having been chairman of the School Board--several years a member of that board; President of the Georgetown Gas Company, and actively connected with other local organization, standing deservedly high among the most useful men of his community, as well as occupying a prominent position in the medical profession; he is Elder in the Presbyterian Church, is Superintendent of its Sunday school; is identified with every movement looking to the spiritual and temporal welfare of the town, and is a man of exemplary and upright life. Dr. Hamilton was married in 1862, to Miss Virginia W. Hamilton, daughter of Alexander and Sarah Hamilton, of Woodford County, Ky.; they having six children. Hamilton Armstrong Sutton Lewis = Woodford-KY Jefferson-KY Adams-OH VA http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/scott/hamilton.ja.txt