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Letter, 17 June 1877
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CA MUA MG 1022-2-1-113-0011
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17 June 1877 (Creation)
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- Hamilton, W. E. (William Edwin), 1834-1902
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- Bracebridge (Ont.)
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(1834-1902)
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William Edwin Hamilton was born on May 10, 1834, in Dublin, Ireland, the son of the Irish mathematician Sir William Rowan Hamilton (1805-1865).
He was a journalist, editor, and author. In 1857, he graduated from Trinity College Dublin and became a civil engineer, working for a while as a railway surveyor. In 1866, he edited and published his father’s manuscript of the "Elements of Quaternions". In 1872, he emigrated to Canada where he became a journalist and an editor, working in Bracebridge, Ontario at E. F. Stephenson's Free Grant Gazette, and as a Government Immigration Agent. In 1880, Hamilton finally settled in Chatham, where he became editor of the Chatham Planet. After having lost his editorship, he started his own Market Guide in 1885.
He died on March 17, 1902, in Kent, Ontario.
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Letter from W.E. Hamilton to John William Dawson, written from Bracebridge.