EARLY HAMILTONIANS WERE MEN OF NOTE

                    
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EARLY HAMILTONIANS WERE MEN OF NOTE

Among early residents of Hamilton who attained some degree of fame were the following:

Judge C. K. Bell, attorney general after the turn of the century [1900]. When a boy in Hamilton he helped dig the old mill race at Gentry’s Mill. He first went to Congress from Hamilton, after serving as district judge here. He ran for governor about 1906, and opened his campaign in Hamilton, riding around the square in the parade at the May picnic with Miss Eleanor Spurlin.

Judge James A. Eidson became a distinguished jurist on the court Of civil appeals at Austin.

Colonel G. R. Freeman was one of the commissioners sent by the governor of Texas in the ‘90's to settle the Greer County controversy with Oklahoma which Texas lost. Old Colonel Saxon said that the Colonel tried to claim all of Oklahoma and lost.

Miss [sic. Mrs.] Helen Stoddard [Helen M. (Gerrells) Stoddard] was one of the founders of W. C. T. U. [Women’s Christian Temperance Union] and C. I. A. [College of Industrial Arts] College [Texas Woman’s University] of Denton, lived in this county. Her old rock home still stands near Indian Gap.

Simpson Lloyd, old "Squire" Lloyd, was one of the most noted Indian fighters of this section, and served as justice of the peace some 25 years. He lived down Pecan Creek from Hamilton.

S. M. N. Marrs, late state superintendent, once was head of the Hamilton schools, and was holding that position at the time the independent school district was created.

"Texas Bob" Snell’s pioneer rodeo show had its origin at Hamilton, or at lest he was a native.

Tony McGuire, whose father ran Tony’s Saloon, went to school here. HE became a movie actor and a principal in Abie’s Irish Rose.

Silliman Evans, formerly assistant postmaster general went to school here. He was the son of a Methodist minister.

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PIONEER EDITION

HAMILTON COUNTY NEWS, Vol. VIII, No. 7

THE CARLTON CITIZEN, Vol. 30, No. 23

Friday, June 24, 1938

W. F. Billingslea, Publisher, Hamilton County, TX

 

 
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