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Like most Andover boys, he went to Yale. A suit-pressing business which he organized paid all his expenses, infuriated old-established rivals, left him a large surplus after his graduation (1913). One of his employes in the pressing business, a bright Italo-Amcrican boy of eight or nine, so delighted Undergraduate Hamilton (then about 18) that he legally adopted him, later sent him through Andover and Yale. This adopted son now has a son of his own, making Bachelor Hamilton a legal grandfather...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Arts: Manhattan's Hamilton | 5/20/1929 | See Source »

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