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- Job Hamilton Sr. Timeline
1848 – Born
•Job Hamilton was born December 5th, 1848, in a little farm house, then located on a farm at the East end of the city limit of Paterson, N.J., the approach to the river bridge of route #46 (1964) is on the land, on which the little farm house stood at that time, the road followed the course of the river and not the land as at present, it was first known as Weasel Road, then River Road, then Cedar Lawn Road, now as McLean Blvd. (1964)
•Job Hamilton's father was a tenant farmer during his early days, he worked with his father doing farm work on farms located in the Cedar Lawn section of Paterson, in Clifton and across the river in Bergen County at Dunker-Hook, (Dark-Corner). Many times he and his father plowed land in Clifton, N.J. on which the Clifton High School building now stands (1964).
1862 - Many times at the age of fourteen, with his father, they traveled to the old Fulton Market in New York City.
1863 - Many times, at the age of fifteen alone, he traveled to the old Central Market, Newark, N.J., He saw the first Horse-Car systems to start in that city. As a boy, he saw the first six Jewish families living in the town of Paterson, N.J., the first Italian he saw, came along the Cedar Lawn Road with a trained bear, still he lived to see several thousand of both nationalities, living in the city of Paterson, N.J. .
1865 - At the age of seventeen, he decided to take up the carpenter trade and became an apprentice with one of the largest general building contractors in the city of Paterson, at that time.
1868 - About three years later, his father decided to give up farming and purchased property in the old North Ward (First Ward) at #52-54 North First Street, where Job Hamilton built a store building for his father at the front line of the property, in which his father started the first grocery store in that section.
1871 - Job Hamilton was married to Johanna Kasse, December 5th, 1871, at Paterson, N.J., by the Rev. Adrian Kent Kasse, father of the bride, in the residence of the Rev. Adrian Kent Kasse, was then located at #168 Water Street, Paterson, N.J. (Building now removed 1964).
•Job Hamilton and Johanna Kasse Hamilton started housekeeping at #69 North First Street in Paterson, N.J..
•Later he purchased property located at #85 Jefferson Street, upon which he built his first three room house, he was then in business for himself, as a General Building Contractor, building a carpenter shop at the rear of the same property,(that little house remains 1967).
1880 - About the year of 1880, he purchased more property located at #81-83 Jefferson Street, Paterson, N.J., upon which he built a seven room house for his family, also larger carpenter shop and barn, at the rear of the property.
•Job Hamilton prospered and became one of the leading General Building Contractors in the city of Paterson, N.J., building many of the principal homes in all sections of Paterson, Passaic and rural sections of Passaic and Bergen Counties, factory buildings,
oThe Frank Mill (Silk, then at the corner of Bridge and River Streets)
oFirst Plush Mill (Then at Franklin Street)
oTowel Mill (Then at North Second Street)
oFirst Rubber Company Mill, Hawthorne, N.J.
oSecond First Rubber Company Mill at New Durham, N.J.
oCompressed Food Co., Passaic, N.J., where a package food was manufactured for the Army and Navy, during the Spanish-American War.
oAdditions and alterations to other factories.
Job Hamilton did much work for the Board of Freeholders, in Passaic County,
•The old Court House
•The old Poor House
•Additions and alterations to other county buildings.
For the Board of Education,
•Old School #5
•Old School #9
•School #14
•Old School 15
•School #14, Union Ave., near West Broadway, Paterson, N.J.
oWas built during the year of 1886, some of the timber used in building that school, was so large and long it had to be carted overland from Newark and Harrison, N.J., wharfs. The outward appearance of that school remains about the same today (1964).
•Old School #15, Market & Summer Streets, Paterson, N.J. was destroyed during the Paterson Big Fire.
•New School #11, now occupies that property as an annex to East Side High School (1964).
•At the time of the Centennial Celebration of Paterson, N.J. Job Hamilton was awarded contracts by the Centennial Committee and city officials to build four temporary arches for the celebration during the year of 1892.
oTwo were located on Market Street, one near the railroad station, one in front of The Market Street Methodist Church, between Church and Paterson Streets (Church building now removed, 1964).
oAnother arch was located on Main Street, between Ellison & Market Streets.
oThe fourth arch was located on Grand Street near the corner of Marshall Street.
oThose arches were a skeleton frame of wood, the end base columns were about six feet square, twenty five feet high at the center and arched the street from curb to curb, then covered with cloth, decorated with flags, emblems and a photo of Washington near the top of one column and one of Hamilton near the top of the opposite column.
The Centennial Committee, consist of fifty eight members. Four Clergymen and fifty four well known business men in Paterson, N.J., All the members of that committee have passed through the Valley of no Return.
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1848 - 1934 (85 years)
