Clad Hamilton

1867 - 1935  (68 years)

• Name	Clad Hamilton
  Born	17 May 1867	East Meredith, Delaware County, New York
  Gender	Male
  Died	19 Nov 1935	Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas
  Buried	Mount Hope Cemetery, Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas
  Person ID	I3760	Rossville
  Last Modified	11 Apr 2020

  
  

  Father	John Harper Hamilton,   b. 1842,   d. 1922  (Age 80 years)
  Mother	Margaret Mitchell Hamilton,   b. 1849,   d. 1921  (Age 72 years)
  Family ID	F3713	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Helen Wells Hamilton
  Married	17 Jan 1901
  Children	1. Sally Hamilton Redfield,   b. 1901,   d. 1993  (Age 92 years)   2. Laurence Hamilton
  Last Modified	14 Jun 2017 09:57:05
  Family ID	F3714	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Documents

  Obituary- Hamilton, Clad LAWYER IS DEAD Col. Clad Hamilton Had Been in Kansas Since 1877 Served in Spanish – American and the World Wars Illness of several months proved fatal at 1:30 0’clock this morning to Col. Clad Hamilton, 68, one of the leading attorneys of Topeka and senior member of the law firm of Hamilton, Campbell & Flack. Colonel Hamilton had been in Stormont hospital five weeks. Clad Hamilton was born at East Meredith, Delaware county, New York, May 17, 1867. He was the son of John H. and Margaret Mitchell Hamilton. His father was engaged in farming. Came to Kansas in 1877 Mr. Hamilton attended common schools in New York state. He came to Kansas in 1877 and finished his grade school education here. He grew up as a printer, setting type on weekly papers in Howard and Emporia, finally becoming a reporter on the Emporia Gazette. Mr. Hamilton, while working as a printer, became an expert cornet player and spent about a year and a half, traveling as a professional musician. He went to Colorado in the spring of 1891 and was employed as a reporter on the Pueblo Chieftain. While working in Howard, Mr. Hamilton had become interested in law and made a study of it. From Pueblo he went to Lawrence where he passed an examination and was admitted to the senior class in the University of Kansas law school. He was graduated in 1892 with the degree of bachelor of laws, was admitted to the bar and the same year came to Topeka, where he became identified with the law firm of Gleed and Gleed. Served in Spanish – American War In 1898, Mr. Hamilton left his law practice to enlist in the army. He served in the Spanish-American war and the Philippine insurrection with the famous Twentieth Kansas infantry, reaching the rank of captain. He returned to Topeka in November 1899, and opened his own law office, which he maintained continuously since. He was in partnership with the late Judge Whitcomb from 1903 until the latter’s elevation to the bench in 1911. Thereafter he was in partnership with his brother, the late Clay Hamilton, until the latter’s death in 1925, under the firm name of Hamilton & Hamilton. Later, his firm became Hamilton, Campbell & Flack. Colonel Hamilton served in the state senate in the sessions of 1909 and 1911, and was an instructor in the Washburn law school for some time. He served with the Kansas National Guard troops on the Mexican border in 1916-17 as staff officer with the rank of major. In the World war, he served overseas as colonel of the 137th infantry, Thirty-Fifth division. He had entered the service with the rank of major. Mr. Hamilton was married January 17, 1901, to Miss Helen Wells. They were the parents of two children, Mrs. A. W. Redfield and Laurence Hamilton, who live at Harbor Beach, Mich. He is also survived by a brother, J. C. Hamilton, of Lansing, Kan.; and two sisters, Mrs. Charles A. Morris, Moline, Kan., and Mrs. W. M. Brownell, East Meredith, N. Y. Funeral services will be held Thursday morning at 10 o’clock at the Wall-Diffenderfer mortuary. Burial will be in Mount Hope cemetery.