Rutland

HAMILTON, James M.

Encyclopedia Vermont Biography: A Series of Authentic Biographical Sketches 
of the Representative Men of Vermont and Sons of Vermont in Other States. 
Dodge. Burlington: Ullery Publishing Company, 1912, p 211

James M. HAMILTON, Rutland [Rutland County, Vermont], physician and surgeon, 
was born 19 June 1868 in Richford [Franklin County, Vermont], son of Dr. 
Jamin H. and Ellen M. (GOFF) HAMILTON. Educated at Richford and St. Albans 
High Schools [Franklin County]; academic and medical departments of 
University of Vermont; and College of Physicians and Surgeons, Baltimore, 
Maryland. Member of attending staff of Rutland Hospital, and district 
surgeon for Rutland Railroad. Captain and assistant surgeon, and later major 
and surgeon of First Infantry Vermont Volunteers in the war with Spain; 
assistant surgeon First Infantry Vermont National Guard before the 
Spanish-American War. Republican. Member of Protestant Episcopal Church. 
Member of Rutland Medical and Surgical Reporting Club; ex-president Rutland 
County Medical and Surgical Society; member Vermont State Medical Society; 
American Medical Association; New York and New England Association of Railway 
Surgeons, and fellow of American Academy of Medicine. In 1893 [James M. 
HAMILTON] married [Miss?] Effie Ruth MILLS of Richford; they have one 
daughter, Ramons Hamilton.

Submitted by Cathy Kubly