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Founder generation · Trader, banker, first sheriff of Allen County
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Allen Hamilton was an Irish emigrant who arrived in Indiana in 1820, at Lawrenceburg, and married Emerine J. Holman, daughter of Judge Jesse Lynch Holman. He moved to Fort Wayne in 1823 as deputy clerk of the United States Land Office, and when Allen County organized he became its first sheriff (1824–26), then postmaster (1825–31), then county auditor, clerk, and recorder (1831–38). His trading firm, Hamilton & Taber, with Cyrus Taber, won the confidence of Richardville himself, and Hamilton sat on the United States treaty commissions with the Miami in 1834 and 1838 and on the Commission to Extinguish Indian Titles in 1840; from 1841 to 1845 he was the United States Indian agent to the Miami. In banking he was president of the Fort Wayne branch of the State Bank of Indiana from 1835, and in 1853 he formed the Allen & Hamilton Company with Hugh McCulloch and Jesse L. Williams. In 1861 he donated the ground at Lewis and Calhoun streets — Hamilton Field — where, a decade after his death, the Fort Wayne Kekiongas played the first game of the National Association on 4 May 1871. His family's three-block homestead compound on the south edge of downtown was sold after his death for the site of Fort Wayne High School (built 1903). He was the father of United States Representative Andrew H. Hamilton and the grandfather of Edith and Alice Hamilton. He died in 1864.
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Sources: Wikipedia, "Allen Hamilton (politician)"; Fort Wayne Museum of Art blog, Hamilton family history; Pioneers Resting in Historic Lindenwood (ACPL, 1989).