Kentucky:  A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 3rd ed., 
1886. Metcalfe County.

DR. E. F. HAMILTON was born Novembr 28, 1862, where he now resides.  He 
is the youngest of four sons and five daughters (eight of whom lived to 
be grown), born to Edward and Malinda (Cox) Hamilton. Edward Hamilton 
was born May 23, 1819, where subject now resides, on East Fork of Little 
Barren, where he owned 250 acres of fine land.  His wife owned two slaves 
at marriage.  He died March 9, 1883.  He was a son of William Hamilton, 
who married Mary Butler. They were natives of Marion County, Ky., and 
Virginia, respectively, and of English and Irish descent. William was a 
son of John Hamilton, who emigrated from Virginia to Marion County, Ky., 
from which county he volunteered as an officer in the war for 
independence; afterward drew a large pension.  He immigrated to Metcalfe 
County, and settled on the East Fork of Little Barren River about 1790 
or 1795; owned three slaves.  The land entered, which he settled, is 
still in the hands of the Hamilton family, and at his death Edward 
Hamilton requested that it remain in the possession of the family.  Mrs. 
Malinda Hamilton was born and reared on East Fork of Little Barren 
River, a daughter of James and Elizabeth (Barron) Cox. Her father was an 
orphan, and came from Pulaski County, Ky., to Metcalfe County about 
1800.  After raising a crop he returned to Pulaski and married his wife, 
and later he owned a good farm and a number of slaves.  Elizabeth Barron 
was a daughter of John Barron; who was an officer in the Revolution, and 
of Irish descent.  He married Susan Magby.  Dr. Hamilton was reared on a 
farm, and was educated at Edmonton.  He commenced the study of medicine 
when eighteen, with Dr. Benjamin Taylor, of Bridgeport.  In [the] winter 
of 1881-82 attended lectures at Louisville.  He located at Sulphur Well 
in 1884, where he purchased a home and commenced the practice of his 
profession. He returned to the old homestead in January, 1885, where he 
will continue the practice.  Dr. Hamilton married, April 30, 1884, Lula 
G. Frayser, of Metcalfe County, a daughter of Lewis and Mary Jane 
(Dulin) Frayser.  The Doctor and wife are members of the Cumberland 
Presbyterian Church and Methodist Episcopal Church, respectively.  In 
politics is Democratic - cast his first presendential vote for 
Cleveland.

Barron Butler Cleveland Cox Dulin Frayser Hamilton Magby Taylor
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Louisville-Jefferson Marion Pulaski

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