HAMILTON, HOWARD (1898-1980)

HAMILTON, HOWARD, United Church minister, Red Bank and Whitneyville, 1930-32; b. Westville, Pictou Co., N.S., 5 Jun 1898, s/o William Hamilton and Elizabeth Primrose Marshall; m. Agnes Maude Davis; d. Simcoe, Ont., 30 Nov 1980.

Howard Hamilton was educated at Dalhousie University (BA 1925) and Pine Hill Divinity Hall (BD) and was ordained in 1927. Before being called to Red Bank in 1930 he was minister of the United Church at Sherbrooke, N.S., and when he resigned and left the Miramichi in 1932 he returned to Nova Scotia. He was located at Bridgetown and Parrsboro respectively until 1941. He was then at Gibson, N.B., for a short time before enlisting for service as a chaplain in World War II. After the war he moved to Ontario and served in a number of rural communities until his retirement in 1967. Most of his later years were spent at Beamsville, near Grimsby. He was eighty-two at the time of his death in 1980. His wife, A. Maude Davis, predeceased him in 1978. They had three sons and two daughters.