Schuyler Hamilton Jr.

Schuyler Hamilton Jr. (January 4, 1853 – February 13, 1907) was an American architect and the great-grandson of Alexander Hamilton.

Early life He was the son of Schuyler Hamilton (1822–1903) and Cornelia Ray (1829–1867). His father, a General during the Civil War, remarried in 1886 to Louisa Francis Paine Allen (1832-1898) at the Park Hotel in Manhattan. He had two brothers, Robert Ray Hamilton (1851–1890), who served in the New York State Assembly, and Charles Althrop Hamilton (1858–1875), who died aged 17.

His maternal grandparents were Robert Ray (1794–1879), a merchant, and Cornelia Prime (1800–1874). His paternal grandparents were John Church Hamilton (1792–1882) and Maria Eliza van den Heuvel. His paternal great-grandparents included Alexander Hamilton (1755/7–1804), a Founding Father of the United States, Elizabeth Schuyler (1757–1854), and Baron John Cornelius van den Heuvel, the one-time governor of Dutch Guiana.

Career Hamilton graduated from Columbia College, first from the art department in 1872, and then from the science department in 1876. who married Austin Sherwood Rothwell (1890–1941), son of John Rothwell, in 1917. Schuyler Van Cortlandt Hamilton (b. 1884), who married Virginia Marshall, an actress, in 1909. Gertrude Ray Hamilton (1887–1961), who married Paul Leavenworth McCulloch (1887–1962) Helena Van Wyck Hamilton (1888–1888), who died young. During their marriage, they generally spent their summers in Europe, generally at Dinard, France, where Hamilton had a villa.

In January 1902, he married for the third time to Mrs. E. G. Hebbard, the widow of Rev. Dr. George P. Hebbard of South Norwalk, Connecticut, an Episcopalian clergyman who fell from a train and was killed.

Hamilton died from an acute attack of Bright's disease on February 13, 1907. He was buried at Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York.