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HON. ALILXANDER HAMILTON. ' ON. Alexander Hamilton, president of the Board of Visitors of the Virginia Military Institute, was born in Granville Count} ' , North Carolina, March iSth, 1851. His grandfather, Patrick Hamilton, emigrated to this countrj ' from Scot- land about the year 18 10. A man of great means and ability, and a Scotsman, with those qualities of perseverance, courage and personal integrity which have ever characterized his race, he readily acquired a position of prominence and influence in the land of his adoption. Robert Alston Hamilton, the son, inherited his father ' s ability and personal qualities and rose to even greater prominence in his native .state. He, in early life, married Miss Sarah Caroline Alexander, of Mecklenburg County, ' irginia. The second son of this union, Alexander Hamilton, the subject of this sketch, unites therefo re the maternal and paternal names. Alexander Hamilton was three years of age when his father moved from Granville County to Raleigh to accept the presidency of the Raleigh and Gaston Railroad Company. After two or three years of successful administration Mr. Hamilton resigned and moved to Petersburg, Va. Here the family has since resided, and here the primary education of its .sons was conducted. In October, 1864, Petersburg being in a state of siege, Alexander was sent to the Belmont School in North Carolina, Mr. Ralph Graves, principal. Here he remained for several years prosecuting the academic courses which in later j ' ears formed the foundation on which his collegiate instruction was based. Returning to Peters- burg after the close of hostilities he spent one j ear at the Universitj- School, W. Gordon McCabe, head-master. In September, 1868, Mr. Hamilton enlisted at the ' V ' irginia Military Insti- tute, entering the third cla.ss. In July following, he was made second sergeant of D company and further promoted in the middle of his second class year to sergeant-major. In July, 1870, he was made adjutant of the corps, an ofSce
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