Illustrated History And Biographical Record Of Lenawee County Mich PDF Download

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1880 edition. Excerpt: ...to Miss Lusanah Richardson, of Cummington, Mass. After his marriage he made Cummington his home until 1818, and raised a family of eight children, of which Dr. I. S. Hamilton, now the only survivor, was the youngest. In 1818 he moved with his family to Perinton, Monroe county, N. Y., and purchased a farm. He lived there until his death, in 1828. He was a soldier in the Revolutionary war. The mother, Lusanah Hamilton, died in Medina, this county, in 1843. When Increase S. Hamilton was fourteen years old he was thrown entirely upon his own resources, and learned the carpenter, s trade, which he followed for several years. At the age of sixteen he commenced a course of study, with a definite idea of first getting an education, and subsequently choosing a profession. He worked at his trade during the summer months, and went to school and tanght school until he was twenty-two, and in September, 1830, he went to Painesville, Ohio, and commenced the study of medicine with Dr. James Willard, and regarded him as his private preceptor for three years, although he spent considerable of the time during the years 1832-3, in Pennsylvania, teaching school. In the fall of 1833 he entered Fairfield Medical College, at Fairfield, Herkimer county, N. Y., and graduated in March, 1835. Previous to going to College the Doctor studied Latin and Greek for nearly three years under a tutor, and was a proficient scholar. May 28, 1835, Dr. Hamilton landed in Detroit. On the following morning he started for Adrian, and after a two days, walk he arrived at the residence of his brother-in-law, Wanton Graham, who lived five miles south of Adrian. During the following month he prospected through Lenawee, Washtenaw, Jackson, Calhoun and Hillsdale counties, with the idea of..