Alexander Hamilton (1755/1757–1804)
Alexander Hamilton, lawyer, cabinet member, and Founding Father, was born on the West Indies island of Nevis. In 1772 he immigrated to New York in order to attend King's College (now Columbia University). He left college in 1776 to fight in the Revolutionary War, and in 1777 George Washington appointed him an aide-de-camp. During the war, he courted and married Elizabeth Schuyler; they would have eight children who reached adulthood. Granted a field command in 1781, Hamilton successfully stormed a redoubt at Yorktown.
Ron Chernow, Alexander Hamilton (New York: The Penguin Press, 2004).
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Alexander Hamilton at Find a Grave.