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HAMILTON, GEN. E. B., Attorney at Law; office 57 North 5th; residence, corner of 4th and Hampshire; born in Carthage, Hancock county, Ill., 1838; commenced reading law in 1860. He enlisted in Co. B, 118th Ill. Vol., August, 1862; was promoted to 1st Lieutenant, 1864; was with Sherman at the first attack on Vicksburg, by the Yazoo River, and also at the siege of that city. He was with Gen. McClernand, at Port Hudson, Arkansas Post, New Orleans, and Georgia; returned to Port Hudson; went to Baton Rouge, and was with Gen. Davidson when he made his diversion at Mobile and vicinity in favor of Sherman, when on his celebrated march to the sea; was mustered out at Springfield in 1865; came to Quincy in 1866, where he finished reading law, and was admitted to the bar in 1869. He was prominent in re-organizing the Quincy National Guards in 1873, and was Captain two years, immediately prior to the riots at East St. Louis, where he went in command of the 8th Regt. I. N. G, He was appointed on the staff of Governor with the rank of Brigadier General in 1878. He was Surveyor of Customs eight years, resigning in 1876. He was Republican nominee for State Senator in 1878; married Miss Mary E. Fisk in 1878. She was born in Boston. Members of the Congregational Church; Republican.