Henry C. Hamilton-1864

Funeral Of Mr. Hamilton.
The remains of Henry C. Hamilton reached Two Rivers last Tuesday morning, having been brought from Nashville under the charge of Mr. Joseph Kilb. The funeral took place on Wednesday afternoon, and was attended by a large concourse of his late friends and neighbors, who met to pay the sad rites of burial to one who was esteemed and loved by them. After an affecting prayer and appropriate discourse by Rev. Mr. Pierpont, the funeral procession marched to the cemetery, where the Order of Odd Fellows performed the final ceremonies.
Mr. Hamilton was about 36 years of age. He came to Two Rivers eighteen years ago, and was one of its first and most enterprising citizens. It was he who advocated and commenced the system of manufactures for which our sister village is now noted throughout the west, and materially assisted in bringing most of them to completion. He was a generous whole-hearted man, whose chief ambition seemed to be to do his neighbor good. The poor always found him liberal to their wants, and many of the old settlers of Two Rivers will remember his charitable services with deep gratitude.
Mr. Hamilton represented his town many years in the County Board, and served two years in the Wisconsin Assembly. It is unnecessary to say that he acted honorably and faithfully through life, and that his death has caused deep sympathy in the community for the loss which a loving wife and three children have met.
His death was caused by typhus fever, while temporarily stopping at Nashville, Tennessee. We find in the Nashville Press of the 7th inst., the following proceedings held in that city relative to his death:
At a meeting in this city, on the 4th instant, of the friends of Henry C. Hamilton, deceased, late quartermaster of the 21st Wisconsin regiment, Captain J. Edward Stacey was called to preside and Mr. Gilbert Hagan appointed secretary.
On motion, the following gentlemen were appointed a committee to draft resolutions expressive of the grief and condolence of the meeting upon learning of the death of Mr. Hamilton, to-wit: Captain J. Edward Stacey, chairman, and Messrs. Charles H. Warner, Joseph Kalb, J.W. Barnes, W.W. Pader and Ralph Church; who submitted the following preamble and resolutions, which were unanimously adopted:
Whereas, In the inscrutable wisdom of Providence, it hath pleased Him to remove from our midst and companionship, by the sudden visitation of death, our much esteemed friend, H.C. Hamilton late of Two Rivers, Wisconsin, but more recently connected with the Army of the Cumberland; therefore,
Resolved 1st. That in the death of our well known and faithfully tried friend, H. C. Hamilton, his numerous friends in the army, as well as in the community in which he resided, have sustained an irreparable loss, only consolable by the reflection that it is appointed unto man once to die, and that an all wise God hath the dictating of the time and circumstances.
Resolved 2d. The we sincerely condole with the bereaved family in the deepest of human afflictions, when both a husband and father are removed in the prime of life, and can only tender the widow and children our heartfelt sympathy in so overwhelming a calamity, and one which no human agency could avert but which in its sorrowfulness calls upon us all to bow in humble submission to him who made us, and who alone "tempers the wind to the shorn lamb," and comfort ourselves with the consoling hope that our loss is his eternal gain.
Resolved 3d. That the city papers be requested to publish the preamble and resolution adopted by this meeting, and that the committee transmit a copy of the same to the family of the deceased.
Capt. J. Edward Stacey, Pres.
Gilbert Hagan, Sec'y.
Manitowoc Pilot Friday, April 15, 1864 pg. 1