J. Hooker Hamersley

James Hooker Hamersley (January 26, 1844 – September 15, 1901) His siblings included Helen Reade Hamersley, who married Charles Dickinson Stickney, a New York City lawyer and banker; Virginia Hamersley, who married Cortlandt de Peyster Field (son of Benjamin Hazard Field); (John Henry Livingston (1848–1927) was a grandson of Edward Philip Livingston, a Lt.) Gov. of New York, and a first cousin of Thomas S. Clarkson, namesake of Clarkson University, Goodhue Livingston, noted architect, and Mary Livingston Ludlow, the mother of Anna Hall Roosevelt and grandmother of First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. and Helen Sarah (née Reade) Hooker.

Hamersley graduated from Columbia University in 1865, and from the Columbia Law School in 1867.

Personal life Hamersley was one of Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt's boyfriends. Later on April 30, 1888, he married Margaret Willing Chisolm (1863–1904), daughter of William Edings Chisolm and his wife, née Mary Ann Rogers, a niece of William Augustus Muhlenberg. They had three children:

Margaret Rogers Hamersley (1889–1891), who died in infancy. who was ultimately the sole beneficiary of a trust established by James' cousin, Louis Carré Hamersley.