Katherine Hamilton

Katherine Hamilton (September 4, 1863 – February 5, 1932) was a women's suffrage activist and a cousin and intimate friend of Alice Hamilton.

Biography

Katherine Hamilton was born on September 4, 1863, the daughter of Andrew Holman Hamilton (1834-1895) and Phoebe Taber (1841-1932). She had two sisters, Jessie Hamilton (1864-1960) and Agnes Hamilton (1868-1961), both artists like her, and two brothers, Allen Hamilton (1874-1961) and Taber Hamilton (1876-1942). Her cousins were Edith Hamilton, Alice Hamilton, Margaret Hamilton and Norah Hamilton.[1]

Even if she was considered one of the most brilliant of the Hamiltons, she was refused the possibility to attend Bryn Mawr College. She studied on her own, and taught her brothers. Like her sister Jessie, she spent all her life taking care of their aging mother, who died after her.[1]

She was the life treasurer of the Women's Reading Club of Fort Wayne, Indiana, member of the Library Committee, and, in 1912, the first president of the Women's Equal Suffrage League.[1] Under chairman Katherine Hamilton, the suffrage society began a series of classes on local government. She was also active in local music and art societies.[2]

She was very close to her cousin Alice, and after her death on February 5, 1932, said that Katherine was "so close and intimate part of life. I can't think of it without her. I have loved her very, very much - more every year."[1] She is buried at Lindenwood Cemetery, Fort Wayne.

Katherine Hamilton at Find a Grave

References
  1. Sicherman, Barbara (2003). Alice Hamilton: A Life in Letters. University of Illinois Press. p. 21. ISBN 9780252071522. Retrieved 5 January 2018.
  2. "Winning the Vote in Fort Wayne, Indiana The Long, Cautious Journey in a German American City". Indiana Magazine of History. Retrieved 5 January 2018.
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