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Class of 1917
Feb. 26, 1899 – Apr 22, 1980
PAYETTE – Services for Clark Alexander Hamilton, 81, of Payette, who died Tuesday in an Ontario, Ore. hospital, will be conducted at 10 a.m. Saturday at Thomason’s Northam-Jones Chapel, Weiser, by the Revs. Marion Smith and Richard Brotherton. Interment will follow in the Hillcrest Cemetery, Weiser.
He was born Feb. 26, 1899, in Malad to A.W. and Elizabeth Clark Hamilton. The family homesteaded in Long Valley before moving to Weiser in 1905. After graduating from high school at Weiser, he attended the University of Washington, taking two years out to tour with the Navy during World War 1. He graduated from the University in 1921, with a bachelor’s degree in business administration.
Following his graduation he returned to Weiser where he helped organize the Dependable Wholesale Grocery Co. He managed the warehouse in Weiser for several years, then moved to San Francisco to become advertising manager of United Grocers.
He was married to Alice Neeley in Weiser in 1928. Following their marriage, the couple lived in the San Francisco area for six years before returning to Weiser, where he began a long association with his father in the family business. After closing his store in Weiser, he owned and operated a general store in Donnelly, which burned in 1970. He then bought a store in Cascade, which he sold in 1975. At the time of his death he was operating a wholesale health food business in Payette.
He served as a state senator from Washington County for three terms, from 1950 through 1956. He was a 55-year member of Frank Spicklemire Post No. 60 of the American Legion. He was also elected to a 50-year membership in the Weiser AF&AM of Idaho, and the Eastern Star.
He is survived by his wife of Payette; a son, Alexander of Kansas City, Kan.; a daughter, Mrs. Charles L. (Nancy) Wheeler, of Tacoma, Wash.; eight grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.Memorials may be made to a favorite charity.
From The Idaho Statesman – Apr 25, 1980 – Page 22
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Weiser Man Sues Railroad For Damages
C. A. Hamilton Asks $20,000 for Injuries Suffered in Accident
(The Statesman Weiser Bureau) WEISER – Alleging he received serious and permanent injuries as the result of an accident while performing the duties of switchman in the Huntington railroad yards, Clark A. Hamilton, Weiser business man, through his attorney, George Donart, filed suit Wednesday in district court asking $20,000 damages from the Union Pacific Railroad company, the Oregon Short Line and the O.W.R. & N. company.
Hamilton alleges that while performing his duties as switchman in the Huntington yards on the night of Jan. 22, 1943, he was knocked from the side of a freight car by the steel banisters of a bridge, thrown to the track and fell through the ties of the bridge to the bottom of Burnt river, sustaining injuries to his back.
As a result of the fall to the bottom of the river it is alleged the plaintiff was severely bruised and injured about the head and back; that he was confined in the railroad company’s hospital in LaGrande for four weeks during which time he suffered intense pain, and that he has been in constant pain since his release from the hospital.
From The Idaho Statesman – Thu, May 18, 1944 – Page 8
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