Hamilton , a town and village of Madison co., New York, on the Chenango river, 90 m. W. of Albany and 30 m. S. W. of Ltica; pop. of the town in 1870, 3,687; of the village, 1,529. The village is on the Utica branch of the New York and Oswego Midland railroad, and contains a carriage factory, a tannery, a cigar manufactory, a furnace, a cheese factory, a national bank, a hotel, a female seminary, a union school, two weekly newspapers, a biweekly (published by the college students), and five churches. Here are situated, under the control of a common board of trustees, Hamilton theological seminary (Baptist), Madison university, and Colgate academy. These schools were developed out of the "Hamilton Literary and Theological Institution," founded in 1820. Madison university was chartered in 1840. Its faculty in 1873-'4 consisted of 10 professors. A scientific as well as a classical course may be pursued. The number of volumes in the libraries was 10,860. The faculty of the theological seminary consisted of four professors, who were also members of the university faculty; and Colgate academy has a principal, with three other instructors. The theological seminary had 43 students, the university 106, and the academy 60. The academy has a commodious edifice.

The university buildings are Alumni hall, East college, and West college; besides which the grounds contain a president's house, a gymnasium, a boarding hall, and professors' houses. The town also contains the villages of East Hamilton, Hubbardsville, Poolville, and part of Earlville, through which the main line of the New York and Oswego Midland railroad passes.

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Hamilton , a city and the capital of Butler co., Ohio, on both sides of the Miami river and on the Miami canal, at the intersection of the Cincinnati, Hamilton, and Dayton, the Cincinnati, Richmond, and Chicago, and the Cincinnati, Hamilton, and Indianapolis railroads, 20 m. N. of Cincinnati, and 90 m. W. S. W. of Columbus; pop. in 1850, 3,210; in 1860, 7,223; in 1870, 11,081, of whom 3,062 were foreigners. It is surrounded by a rich and populous district, and is extensively engaged in manufacturing. The principal establishments are machine shops, iron founderies, paper mills, woollen mills, flour mills, distilleries, breweries, manufactories of carriages and wagons, boots and shoes, railroad supplies, ploughs, saws, rope, pumps, brooms, candles, boilers, etc. Abundant water power is supplied by a hydraulic canal, which gives a fall of 28 feet. There are eight hotels, and two national banks with $200,000 capital; valuation of property in 1873, $5,836,065. The city is divided into four wards, and is governed by a mayor and council. It has five public schools, including a high school, having in 1872 28 teachers and 1,200 pupils; a free library of 2,000 volumes, four weekly newspapers (one German), and 12 churches.

The quarter on the W. bank of the river, formerly the village of Rossville, was incorporated with Hamilton when the municipal charter was granted in 1853.

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Hamilton , a city and the county seat of White Pine co., Nevada, situated in the S. W. part of the county, 230 m. E. of Carson City and 215 m. S. W. of Salt Lake City; lat. 39° 15' N., Ion. 115° 27' W.; pop. in 1870, 3,913, of whom 160 were Chinese. It is built at the N. base of Treasure hill, 8,000 ft. above the level of the sea, and 120 m. S. of the Central Pacific railroad, in the midst of the White Pine mining district, which comprises three parallel mountains, viz. : White Pine, 11,000 ft. high, and Babylon and Treasure hills, each 9,000 ft. high. Treasure hill contains rich chloride silver ores, while the other two yield complex ores, embracing carbonates, oxides, and sulphites. All the valuable minerals abound here except tin and platinum, and the ores assay as high as $1,500 a ton in silver. The climate of Hamilton is rigorous, but very healthful. Insects and reptiles are unknown. Stages run daily to Palisade on the railroad and to the mining districts S. of the city, and there is a tri-weekly line to the east. It contains a court house, an Episcopal and a Roman Catholic church, a public school with two departments, a weekly newspaper, a bank, two hotels, and a brewery.

In the neighborhood are nine quartz mills with 155 stamps, extensive smelting works, and an incomplete refinery. The streets are graded, and water is supplied by works erected at a cost of $300,000. - Hamilton owes its origin to the discovery of silver in Treasure hill in 1868, followed by a great influx of population and extensive operations. But business was soon paralyzed by litigation concerning titles, coupled with the refusal of speculators to work their claims, and by the failure of the smelting works through ignorance of the proper treatment. The city consequently dwindled, until, after being nearly destroyed by fire in June, 1873, it contained only 600 inhabitants; but it is now (1874) recovering.