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• [Good Robinson Ritchie Lee et al.FTW]
  
  From "THE MAXWELL FAMILY of ONTARIO and ALBERTA"
  by:
  'Douglas J. Graham, Washington, DC.
  http://home.earthlink.net/~douglasjgraham/DG_FM.htm
  <email address>'
  
  " Janet Maxwell, b. 1854, m. John Finley Hamilton, b. 27 July 1848, son of James Hamilton (1818-1891) and Marion McGowan (1821-1861)............they had 12 children....
  
  One of whom was Alexander Hamilton.......
  
  Alexander, b. 13 October 1876. He m. on 26 January 1910 to Sarah Lee, b. in Ontario in 1875. According to a Burdett history, Alex and Sarah were married in Calgary. He registered his homestead claim a few miles southwest of Burdett, Alberta on 21 October 1908. Alex was not on his homestead very long before he sold out and became a blacksmith in Burdett. He and Sarah also ran the post office in Burdett. Sarah had been a schoolteacher in Alberta and Ontario before her marriage. When Burdett became a village in 1913 Alex was elected to the first council. He served on Council for 24 of the next 27 years (Bill Maxwell also occasionally served on Council) and was mayor for 18 terms. According to the local history of Burdett (Burdett Prairie Trails published in 1981) it was said in those days that "Burdett is a one man town and Alex Hamilton is the man". He died in 1943 and Sarah died in 1953. Their three children were:
  1. John Finley Hamilton, b. 2 January 1911 but died three days later.
  2. Jean Lee, b. 3 December 1911. She m. Lester Carter Bennett of Orion on 24 September 1949 but had no children. In about 1982 they lived in Medicine Hat.
  3. Marion Alexandra, b. 4 January 1918, d. in 1932 (or June 1933). "