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Henry Huntington Hamilton

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Henry Huntington Hamilton

Birth
Two Rivers, Manitowoc County, Wisconsin, USA
Death
Mar 1947 (aged 47–48)
San Francisco, San Francisco County, California, USA
Burial
Two Rivers, Manitowoc County, Wisconsin, USA Add to Map
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HENRY HUNTINGTON HAMILTON

Henry H. Hamilton, 47
, brother of Edward P. Hamilton of Two Rivers, and a west coast steamship line executive until his retirement a year ago because of ill health, died Sunday at a South San Francisco hospital following a
major operation.
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday at the Hamilton home in Two Rivers. There will be Masonic rites at the grave in Pioneers Rest cemetery. Brief funeral rites were held in San Francisco Sunday afternoon and the body will arrive here Wednesday night, and be taken to the Beduhn funeral home in Two Rivers. It will be moved to the Edward Hamilton home at 11 a.m. Thursday to lie in state until the hour of services.
Mr. Hamilton was born in Two Rivers in 1899, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hamilton. He attended Two Rivers schools and later Culver Military academy and University of Wisconsin. He worked on car ferries plying between Manitowoc, Ludington and Frankfort during his early manhood and for two years operated a canning company under his own name at Frankfort, Mich. Returning to his first love, sailing, Mr. Hamilton became a purser with the Matson Steamship company, operating out of San Francisco, and traveled the Orient for many years. Later
he became affiliated in the same capacity with the Hawaiian-American Steamship line, with which firm he remained until his retirement. He lived for a time
in Honolulu, representing the steamship line, and up to his retirement had been in the firm's San Francisco office.
Mr. Hamitlon married Miss Barbara MacDonald, in 1937 who survives with a brother, Edward P. Hamilton of Two Rivers. An older brother, Walter, died here last year.
Manitowoc Herald Times, Monday, March 17, 1947 P.2
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Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hamilton, of Two Rivers, are the proud parents of a fourteen-pound boy, born yesterday. Mr. Hamilton was in town to-day passing around cigars to his numerous friends.
Manitowoc Daily Herald, Friday, July 28, 1899 P.2
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HENRY HUNTINGTON HAMILTON

Henry H. Hamilton, 47
, brother of Edward P. Hamilton of Two Rivers, and a west coast steamship line executive until his retirement a year ago because of ill health, died Sunday at a South San Francisco hospital following a
major operation.
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday at the Hamilton home in Two Rivers. There will be Masonic rites at the grave in Pioneers Rest cemetery. Brief funeral rites were held in San Francisco Sunday afternoon and the body will arrive here Wednesday night, and be taken to the Beduhn funeral home in Two Rivers. It will be moved to the Edward Hamilton home at 11 a.m. Thursday to lie in state until the hour of services.
Mr. Hamilton was born in Two Rivers in 1899, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hamilton. He attended Two Rivers schools and later Culver Military academy and University of Wisconsin. He worked on car ferries plying between Manitowoc, Ludington and Frankfort during his early manhood and for two years operated a canning company under his own name at Frankfort, Mich. Returning to his first love, sailing, Mr. Hamilton became a purser with the Matson Steamship company, operating out of San Francisco, and traveled the Orient for many years. Later
he became affiliated in the same capacity with the Hawaiian-American Steamship line, with which firm he remained until his retirement. He lived for a time
in Honolulu, representing the steamship line, and up to his retirement had been in the firm's San Francisco office.
Mr. Hamitlon married Miss Barbara MacDonald, in 1937 who survives with a brother, Edward P. Hamilton of Two Rivers. An older brother, Walter, died here last year.
Manitowoc Herald Times, Monday, March 17, 1947 P.2
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Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hamilton, of Two Rivers, are the proud parents of a fourteen-pound boy, born yesterday. Mr. Hamilton was in town to-day passing around cigars to his numerous friends.
Manitowoc Daily Herald, Friday, July 28, 1899 P.2
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