Yale Bio/Obit
WILLIAM PIERSON HAMILTON, Ph.B. 1891. Born February
5, 1869, New York City, died May 8, 1950, Santa Barbara, Calif.
Father, William Gaston Hamilton, president Jersey City Locomotive
Works, son of John Church and Marie (Van den Heuvel) Hamilton
Mother, Helen Maria (Pierson) Hamilton, daughter of Henry Lewis
and Helen Maria (Pier son) Pier son. Yale relatives include a brother,
Laurens Hamilton,
'95. Descendant of Abraham Pierson, first president
of Yale
St Paul's School, Concord, N.H. Mechanical engineering course;
captain Freshman Crew, vice-president Class Baseball Team Junior
year, Delta Psi
Cashier and later treasurer and director Manhattan Trust Company,
New York City, 1893-97, associated with J. P. Morgan & Company 1897
until retirement 1922 (partner 1900-1922), partner Drexel & Company,
Philadelphia, Morgan Grenfel & Company, London, and Morgan Harjes
& Company, Paris, owned and operated a large stock farm in Bar Harbor,
Maine, breeding Guernsey cattle and prize-winning thoroughbred horses
and polo ponies, member St. Saviour's Church (Episcopal), Bar Harbor,
and All-Saints-by-the-Sea, Montecito, Calif.
Married (1) April 12, 1894, New York City, Juliet Pierpont, daughter
of J Pierpont and Frances (Tracy) Morgan. Children Helen Morgan
(Mrs Arthur Woods), Pierpont Morgan (Harvard 1916-17, 1918-19), Laurens
Morgan, Alexander (Harvard 1921-24), Elizabeth Schuyler (died 1919).
Mr and Mrs. Hamilton were divorced 1923. Married (2) January 2, 1924,
Montecito, Mrs Theodosia Sessions Carlin. Mrs. Hamilton died 1941.
Death due to hypertensive heart disease. Entombed in Santa Barbara
Mausoleum.
WILLIAM PIERSON HAMILTON, Ph.B. 1891. Born February
5, 1869, New York City, died May 8, 1950, Santa Barbara, Calif.
Father, William Gaston Hamilton, president Jersey City Locomotive
Works, son of John Church and Marie (Van den Heuvel) Hamilton
Mother, Helen Maria (Pierson) Hamilton, daughter of Henry Lewis
and Helen Maria (Pier son) Pier son. Yale relatives include a brother,
Laurens Hamilton,
'95. Descendant of Abraham Pierson, first president
of Yale
St Paul's School, Concord, N.H. Mechanical engineering course;
captain Freshman Crew, vice-president Class Baseball Team Junior
year, Delta Psi
Cashier and later treasurer and director Manhattan Trust Company,
New York City, 1893-97, associated with J. P. Morgan & Company 1897
until retirement 1922 (partner 1900-1922), partner Drexel & Company,
Philadelphia, Morgan Grenfel & Company, London, and Morgan Harjes
& Company, Paris, owned and operated a large stock farm in Bar Harbor,
Maine, breeding Guernsey cattle and prize-winning thoroughbred horses
and polo ponies, member St. Saviour's Church (Episcopal), Bar Harbor,
and All-Saints-by-the-Sea, Montecito, Calif.
Married (1) April 12, 1894, New York City, Juliet Pierpont, daughter
of J Pierpont and Frances (Tracy) Morgan. Children Helen Morgan
(Mrs Arthur Woods), Pierpont Morgan (Harvard 1916-17, 1918-19), Laurens
Morgan, Alexander (Harvard 1921-24), Elizabeth Schuyler (died 1919).
Mr and Mrs. Hamilton were divorced 1923. Married (2) January 2, 1924,
Montecito, Mrs Theodosia Sessions Carlin. Mrs. Hamilton died 1941.
Death due to hypertensive heart disease. Entombed in Santa Barbara
Mausoleum.
Yale Bio/Obit
WILLIAM PIERSON HAMILTON, Ph.B. 1891. Born February
5, 1869, New York City, died May 8, 1950, Santa Barbara, Calif.
Father, William Gaston Hamilton, president Jersey City Locomotive
Works, son of John Church and Marie (Van den Heuvel) Hamilton
Mother, Helen Maria (Pierson) Hamilton, daughter of Henry Lewis
and Helen Maria (Pier son) Pier son. Yale relatives include a brother,
Laurens Hamilton,
'95. Descendant of Abraham Pierson, first president
of Yale
St Paul's School, Concord, N.H. Mechanical engineering course;
captain Freshman Crew, vice-president Class Baseball Team Junior
year, Delta Psi
Cashier and later treasurer and director Manhattan Trust Company,
New York City, 1893-97, associated with J. P. Morgan & Company 1897
until retirement 1922 (partner 1900-1922), partner Drexel & Company,
Philadelphia, Morgan Grenfel & Company, London, and Morgan Harjes
& Company, Paris, owned and operated a large stock farm in Bar Harbor,
Maine, breeding Guernsey cattle and prize-winning thoroughbred horses
and polo ponies, member St. Saviour's Church (Episcopal), Bar Harbor,
and All-Saints-by-the-Sea, Montecito, Calif.
Married (1) April 12, 1894, New York City, Juliet Pierpont, daughter
of J Pierpont and Frances (Tracy) Morgan. Children Helen Morgan
(Mrs Arthur Woods), Pierpont Morgan (Harvard 1916-17, 1918-19), Laurens
Morgan, Alexander (Harvard 1921-24), Elizabeth Schuyler (died 1919).
Mr and Mrs. Hamilton were divorced 1923. Married (2) January 2, 1924,
Montecito, Mrs Theodosia Sessions Carlin. Mrs. Hamilton died 1941.
Death due to hypertensive heart disease. Entombed in Santa Barbara
Mausoleum.
WILLIAM PIERSON HAMILTON, Ph.B. 1891. Born February
5, 1869, New York City, died May 8, 1950, Santa Barbara, Calif.
Father, William Gaston Hamilton, president Jersey City Locomotive
Works, son of John Church and Marie (Van den Heuvel) Hamilton
Mother, Helen Maria (Pierson) Hamilton, daughter of Henry Lewis
and Helen Maria (Pier son) Pier son. Yale relatives include a brother,
Laurens Hamilton,
'95. Descendant of Abraham Pierson, first president
of Yale
St Paul's School, Concord, N.H. Mechanical engineering course;
captain Freshman Crew, vice-president Class Baseball Team Junior
year, Delta Psi
Cashier and later treasurer and director Manhattan Trust Company,
New York City, 1893-97, associated with J. P. Morgan & Company 1897
until retirement 1922 (partner 1900-1922), partner Drexel & Company,
Philadelphia, Morgan Grenfel & Company, London, and Morgan Harjes
& Company, Paris, owned and operated a large stock farm in Bar Harbor,
Maine, breeding Guernsey cattle and prize-winning thoroughbred horses
and polo ponies, member St. Saviour's Church (Episcopal), Bar Harbor,
and All-Saints-by-the-Sea, Montecito, Calif.
Married (1) April 12, 1894, New York City, Juliet Pierpont, daughter
of J Pierpont and Frances (Tracy) Morgan. Children Helen Morgan
(Mrs Arthur Woods), Pierpont Morgan (Harvard 1916-17, 1918-19), Laurens
Morgan, Alexander (Harvard 1921-24), Elizabeth Schuyler (died 1919).
Mr and Mrs. Hamilton were divorced 1923. Married (2) January 2, 1924,
Montecito, Mrs Theodosia Sessions Carlin. Mrs. Hamilton died 1941.
Death due to hypertensive heart disease. Entombed in Santa Barbara
Mausoleum.
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