| John C. Hamlin, hardware merchant, Smethport,
son of Orlo J. Hamlin, was born March 4, 1836, at Smethport, McKean Co.,
Penn., where he was educated and where, in 1865, he opened the first store
exclusively for hardware, a business he is still engaged in. In 1857
he married Charlotte M., daughter of Dr. W. Y. McCoy, one of he first practicing
physicians of Smethport, which union was blessed with three children:
William O., C. Aline (now Mrs. Dr. Lewis H. Robinson, of Brooklyn, NY)
and Mary E. (now Mrs. Charles Bosworth, also of Brooklyn, NY). William
O. married Miss Julia Lightbody, and is also a resident of Brooklyn.
Mr. Hamlin is a member of McKean Lodge, F. & A. M., No. 388; of Bradford
Chapter, R. A. M., and Trinity Commandery, K. T. He is a Democrat,
but not a politician, devoting his time and energies to business cares.
He and his family are members of St. Luke's Episcopal Church. The
foundation and prosperity of the church afford an example of the reward
of twenty years of untiring labor by Mr. and Mrs. Hamlin, who maintained
the Sunday school and church affairs in general, from 1857 to about 1880,
when St. Luke's had grown to be a strong parish, and since then it has
become one of the largest and most flourishing in the county. |
