PHILIP T. HAMILTON. The citizens of the news county of Jefferson chose as their first county attorney, by a vote of 1,571 to 500 for the Repub1ican nominee, Philip T. Hamilton, an experienced lawyer who has been located in the Chickasaw country since 1902. Born in Fulton county, Arkansas, April 7, 1872, he spent his years before majority on the home farm getting a few months' schooling in the country each year. In order that he might get advanced schooling he picked cotton and did other manual labor in his neighborhood, and with these savings spent about two years in the high school at Viola, Arkansas. He taught country school in Arkansas until 1898, and on moving to Dallas county, Texas, continued that work until 1901, his last school being at Lawson. In the meantime he was studying law. He prepared for the bar by reading in the office of Dye and Gillespie at Dallas, at the same time assisting in the clerical work of the office. He was admitted to the bar at Dallas, before Judge Eckard, in 1901, and his admission by the supreme court of Texas in 1902 entitled him to practice in all the courts of Indian Territory. His first case was in Dallas county, wherein he defended a man charged with shooting hogs. By securing his client's acquittal of this charge, he likewise prevented an impending suit for damages, and for that reason felt quite proud of his first legal success. Moving to Indian Territory in 1902 and locating at Tishomingo, he became city attorney and gave some valuable service to the incorporation in defending the city in some damage suits, by his activity in prosecuting the collection of taxes, and by his timely counsel in the course of some condemnation proceedings for light and power extension. On leaving Tishomingo in the fall of 1906 he bought a farm at Cornish, in what is now Jefferson county, and remained in that community until his election to the county office, when he moved to the county seat at Ryan.
    Mr. Hamilton was married in Fulton county, Arkansas, October 11, 1891, to Eva Stark. She is a native of Kentucky, born in 1880, and moved to Arkansas with her mother (whose maiden name was Emma) and step-father, Dr. W. E. Pollett. She obtained her education in the Viola high school and in Mountain Home College, and for a time was a teacher in the schools of Arkansas. Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton's children are, Vernon, Gladys and Thelton. Speaking of Mr. Hamilton's family history, his grandfather was. Thomas Hamilton, a miller by trade, and a soldier of the Confederacy, who died in Arkansas. His children were: David, in Oklahoma; John, of Little Rock, Arkansas; William, of Cushman, Arkansas; Joseph, of Colorado; Melissa, wife of John McCandless, of Fulton county; and Scott. Scott Hamilton, the last named, was the father of the present county attorney of Jefferson county. He was born in 1837, moved to Arkansas just after the Civil war, and has always followed -the occupation of farming. He married Mary A. Green, who came to Arkansas from Illinois, and who died in Jefferson county, Oklahoma, in 1906. Her children were: Philip T.; Newton, of Roswell, New Mexico; George, of Cornish, Oklahoma; Henry, of Coalgate, Oklahoma; Letha, wife of Thomas Oakley, of Cornish, Lizzie, wife of Elmer Bettes, of Coalgate; Susie, wife of James Herring, of Tishomingo; Malisa, wife of H. M. Claxton, of Coalgate; Emma, wife of T. L. Price of Coalgate.