[1] He was born on February 26, 1863, in White Hall, Illinois, to Edwin Benjamin Brown Hamilton (1821-1894) and Mary Ann Hildred Chandler.

He attended Shurtleff College and Columbia University and was admitted to the bar in New York in 1884.

[2] On June 30, 1893, in Newark, New Jersey, he married Ada Estelle Brown.

[3] In 1923 he was appointed as the secretary of the Rhode Island Democratic Committee.

[1] He died on August 18, 1942, in Barrington, Rhode Island.