History of Weston, (Lewis County) West Virginia United States of America

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John William Hamilton, clergyman, was born in Weston, Va., March 18, 1845; son of the Rev. William C. Patrick and Henrietta M. (Dean) Hamilton: and grandson of Patrick and Jane (Graham) Hamilton, and of Daniel and Elizabeth (Breckenridge) Dean. He was graduated from Mount Union college, Ohio, in 1865; was licensed to preach in June, 1865; was admitted to the Pittsburg Methodist Episcopal conference in April, 1866; was transferred to the New England conference in April, 1868, and was stationed at Malden, Mass. He was graduated S.T.B. from Boston university in 1871. He was married Dec. 24, 1873, to Julia Elizabeth Battelle, who died Jan. 31, 1883, and secondly to Emma Lydia Bat telle of Buffalo, N.Y. He founded and was for nine years pastor of the People's church, Boston, Mass.; was a member of the general conference of the Methodist Episcopal church in 1884, 1888, 1892 and 1896; fraternal delegate to the churches in Ireland and England, 1898; corresponding secretary of the Freedmen's aid and southern education society from 1896; and superintendent of educational work for the Methodist Episcopal church in the sixteen southern states. He published: Memorial of Jesse Lee (1875); Lives of the Methodist Bishop (1883); People's Church Pulpit (1884); and American Fraternal Greetings (1893); and was editor of the Christian Educator from 1892.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

History of Weston, (Lewis County) West Virginia

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