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Alexander Hamilton (1755-1804), first Secretary of the Treasury, had two sons, both named Philip. Philip the younger (1802-1884) was assistant District Attorney in New York and was a member and Past Master of Albion Lodge 26. He was often confused with his older brother of the same name who died prior to the second Philip's birth. The elder Philip
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William Keeling,
John Keay • The Honourable Company: History of the English East India Company
“I’m a Jacobite,” she’d told him, “just as you are. When I’m grown I’ll be a soldier, like my father was, and kill the men who killed him.” Captain Jamieson had raised his eyebrows then and looked to Colonel Graeme, who had said, “Did I not tell ye she was John’s own lassie, through and through?” “Ye did, aye.”
Susanna Kearsley • The Firebird
William Methwold,
John Keay • The Honourable Company: History of the English East India Company
Agassiz’s son, Alexander, who was trained by his father and served as his principal museum assistant, became a leading zoologist, a pioneer in oceanography, and made a fortune in copper mining, much of which he ultimately devoted to the museum and other work begun by his father. Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, in less than a decade after her husband’s deat
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