page_title: John Church Hamilton
section_title: Family
hierarchical_section_title: John Church Hamilton / Family
caption_attribution_description: English: General Schuyler Hamilton
context_page_description: John Church Hamilton was a historian, biographer, and lawyer. He was a son of Alexander Hamilton, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States.
context_section_description: He was married to Maria Eliza van den Heuvel (January 4, 1795 – September 13, 1873), the daughter of Jan Cornelis Van den Heuvel, a Dutch born plantation owner and politician who served as governor of the Dutch province of Demerara from 1765 to 1770 and later became a merchant in New York City with the Dutch West India Company. Together they had fourteen children:
  General Alexander Hamilton (1815–1907), a major general in the Civil War, author of Dramas and Poems (1887).
  Maria Williamson Hamilton (1817-1822), who died young
  Charlotte Augusta Hamilton (1819–1896)
  John Cornelius Adrian Hamilton (1820–1879)
  Schuyler Hamilton (1822–1903), who served in the Mexican War
  James Hamilton (1824-1825), who died young
  Maria Eliza Hamilton (1825–1887), who married Judge Charles A. Peabody (1814–1901)
  Charles Apthorp Hamilton (July 23, 1826 – November 29, 1901), was educated in New York, England, and Germany. After clerking for a New York law firm, he practiced law in Wisconsin. He enlisted in the Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry at the start of the Civil War in 1861, reaching the rank of lieutenant colonel. A severe battle injury to both legs compelled his resignation in March 1863, and he returned to practicing law. In 1881, he was elected judge of the circuit court for Milwaukee.
  Robert P. Hamilton (1828–1891)
  Adelaide Hamilton (1830–1915)
  Elizabeth Hamilton (1831–1884), who first married Henry Wager Halleck in 1855 and after his death, married George Washington Cullum in 1875.
  William Gaston Hamilton (1832–1913), a consulting engineer of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company
  Laurens Hamilton (1834 – July 6, 1858), an 1854 graduate of Columbia College, who died at the age of 23. He had served for one year as a private in the Seventh Regiment of New York, and drowned accidentally while serving as part of a military escort aboard a ship returning the remains of President James Monroe to Richmond, Virginia.
  Alice Hamilton (September 11, 1838 – September 15, 1905)
caption: His son, Schuyler Hamilton
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