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Schuyler Hamilton Jr.

Schuyler Hamilton Jr. (January 4, 1853 – February 13, 1907) was an American architect and the great-grandson of Alexander Hamilton.

Schuyler Hamilton Jr.
Born(1853-01-04)January 4, 1853
Washington, D.C., U.S.
DiedFebruary 13, 1907(1907-02-13) (aged 54)
Norwalk, Connecticut, U.S.
Resting placeGreen-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn
Alma materColumbia College
Spouses
Gertrude Van Cortlandt Wells
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(m. 1877; div. 1894)​
Jane Byrd Mercer
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(m. 1895; died 1899)​
E. G. Hubbard
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(m. 1902)​
Children5
Parent(s)Schuyler Hamilton
Cornelia Ray
RelativesSee Hamilton family

Early life

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He was the son of Schuyler Hamilton (1822–1903) and Cornelia Ray (1829–1867).[1][2] His father, a General during the Civil War,[3] remarried in 1886 to Louisa Francis Paine Allen (1832-1898) at the Park Hotel in Manhattan. He had two brothers, Robert Ray Hamilton (1851–1890), who served in the New York State Assembly, and Charles Althrop Hamilton (1858–1875), who died aged 17.[4]

His maternal grandparents were Robert Ray (1794–1879), a merchant, and Cornelia Prime (1800–1874). His paternal grandparents were John Church Hamilton (1792–1882)[5] and Maria Eliza van den Heuvel. His paternal great-grandparents included Alexander Hamilton (1755/7–1804), a Founding Father of the United States, Elizabeth Schuyler (1757–1854), and Baron John Cornelius van den Heuvel, the one-time governor of Dutch Guiana.[1] Through his aunt Elizabeth Hamilton (1831–1884), he was the nephew of Gen. Henry Wager Halleck and Gen. George Washington Cullum.[6]

Career

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Hamilton graduated from Columbia College, first from the art department in 1872, and then from the science department in 1876.[2]

Following his graduation, he trained and became an architect, earning a reputation for "skill and praiseworthy originality."[2]

Following Hamilton's divorce in 1894, he rented a cottage in Newport, Rhode Island the following summer and after it closed on August 1, 1895, he stated that he was going west to California to engage in mining.[7] In January 1898, he filed a petition for bankruptcy, showing nominal assets of $115,361 in a "reversionary interest" in the estate of his brother, Robert Ray Hamilton, who committed suicide in 1890.[8]

Hamilton was a member of the University Club of New York, the St. Anthony Club, the Sons of the American Revolution and the Columbia University Alumni Association.[8]

Personal life

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On April 11, 1877, Hamilton married Gertrude Van Cortlandt Wells (1849–1944), daughter of Alexander Wells (1819–1854), an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of California, in Ossining, New York. Before their divorce in 1894, they were the parents of:[9]

  • Violet Loring Hamilton (1882–1936),[10] who married Austin Sherwood Rothwell (1890–1941),[11] son of John Rothwell, in 1917.[12]
  • Schuyler Van Cortlandt Hamilton (b. 1884), who married Virginia Marshall, an actress,[13] in 1909.[2][14]
  • Gertrude Ray Hamilton (1887–1961), who married Paul Leavenworth McCulloch (1887–1962)
  • Helena Van Wyck Hamilton (1888–1888), who died young.[2]
  • Lillian Gardiner Hamilton (1890–1890), who died young.[2]

Shortly after their divorce, she married the Baron Raoul Nicholas de Graffenried thereby becoming the Baroness de Graffenried, and Hamilton married Jane Byrd Mercer (1867–1899), the daughter of Richard Sprigg Mercer (1823–1873) and the granddaughter of Governor John Francis Mercer of Maryland, in 1895.[7] During their marriage, they generally spent their summers in Europe, generally at Dinard, France, where Hamilton had a villa.[8] They remained married until her death, due to an overdose of morphine at her home in the Florence Apartment House, in 1899.[8]

In January 1902, he married for the third time to Mrs. E. G. Hebbard, the widow of Rev. Dr. George P. Hebbard of South Norwalk, Connecticut, an Episcopalian clergyman who fell from a train and was killed.[15]

Hamilton died from an acute attack of Bright's disease on February 13, 1907.[9] He was buried at Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York.

References

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  1. ^ a b "Gen. Schuyler Hamilton Dead; | Grandson of Alexander Hamilton, Who Distinguished Himself in the Mexican and Civil Wars". The New York Times. March 19, 1903. Retrieved 18 October 2016.
  2. ^ a b c d e f Reynolds, Cuyler (1914). Genealogical and Family History of Southern New York and the Hudson River Valley: A Record of the Achievements of Her People in the Making of a Commonwealth and the Building of a Nation. Lewis Historical Publishing Company. p. 1388. Retrieved 12 January 2018.
  3. ^ Pope, John (1998). The Military Memoirs of General John Pope. Univ of North Carolina Press. p. 256. ISBN 9780807824443. Retrieved 18 October 2016.
  4. ^ "Hamilton". The New York Herald. October 5, 1875.
  5. ^ "The Death List of a Day; John Church Hamilton". The New York Times. July 26, 1882. Retrieved 18 October 2016.
  6. ^ Simpson, Brooks D.; Sears, Stephen W.; Sheehan-Dean, Aaron (February 3, 2011). The Civil War: The First Year Told by Those Who Lived It: (Library of America #212). Library of America. ISBN 9781598531381. Retrieved 18 October 2016.
  7. ^ a b "Schuyler Hamilton Married; His New Wife Was Jane Mercer, Recently a Governess in Newport – Mr. Hamilton Going to Europe". The New York Times. 15 August 1895. Retrieved 12 January 2018.
  8. ^ a b c d "Mrs. S. Hamilton Jr. Dead; Took an Overdose of Morphine at Her Home in the Florence – Prostrated by the Storm". The New York Times. 4 May 1899. Retrieved 12 January 2018.
  9. ^ a b "Death List of a Day". The New York Times. Retrieved 17 October 2016.
  10. ^ "Died. Rothwell – Violet Hamilton". The New York Times. January 5, 1936. Retrieved 12 January 2018.
  11. ^ "Austin S. Rothwell; Former Squadron A Member Was a Captain in the A. E. F." The New York Times. 29 May 1941. Retrieved 12 January 2018.
  12. ^ "Bride of Lieut. Rothwell, Miss Violet Hamilton, Daughter of Baroness de Graffenried, Weds". The New York Times. 18 August 1917. Retrieved 12 January 2018.
  13. ^ "Mrs. Hamilton Put in Contempt; Ex-Actress Ordered to Appear Before Court for Failure to Pay $3,291 Debt to Brokers". The New York Times. 8 July 1914. Retrieved 12 January 2018.
  14. ^ "Hamilton Heir Files $750,000 Will Suit; Fight Over Estate of Adelaide Hamilton, the Statesman's Blind Granddaughter. Charge Undue Influence, Relative, Cut Off, Accuses William Pierson Hamilton and Others – Nephew Also Objects". The New York Times. June 3, 1915. Retrieved 12 January 2018.
  15. ^ "A Day's Weddings; Hamilton–Hebbard". The New York Times. January 5, 1902. Retrieved 13 January 2018.
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