Alexander Hamilton (priest)
Alexander Hamilton was an Episcopal priest and great grandson of Alexander Hamilton, the first Secretary of the Treasury of the United States. He was the rector of Emmanuel Episcopal Church in Weston, Connecticut by 1893 St. Pauls Episcopal Church in Woodbury, Connecticut by 1915 and Christ Church in Westport, Connecticut until he retired in 1920. Hamilton was the chaplain for the Society of the Cincinnati and the Connecticut Society of the Sons of the Revolution. He was also a member of the Advisory Council for the Daughters of the Cincinnati.
He was born at Setauket, New York on Long Island on September 9, 1847 to Alexander Hamilton . He and his family moved to the Ramapo Valley in 1858, then to New York City in 1861. He served during the American Civil War under the command of his father, who was then a colonel in the New York Militia. He attended St. Stephens College and then attended the General Theological Seminary in Manhattan. He received his ordination in 1870 at the Church of the Transfiguration as a deacon.
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