Shaver, F. A., Arthur P. Rose, R. F. Steele, and A. E. Adams, compilers. "An Illustrated History of Central Oregon." ("Embracing Wasco, Sherman, Gilliam, Wheeler, Crook, Lake, & Klamath Counties") Spokane, WA: Western Historical Publishing Co., 1905. p. 508. PRESTON A. HAMILTON an energetic young business man in Sherman county, is proprietor of the steam laundry at Moro, Oregon, of which state he is a native, having been born at Prineville, Crook county, March 10, 1879. His father, George W. Hamilton, was a native of Kansas City, Missouri ; his father of Scotland, his mother of Wales. The father of our subject died at Fossil, Wheeler county, Oregon, in the fall of 1898. He came to the state in 1853 with his parents, crossing the plains with an ox train, via The Dalles. His father conducted a grist mill at Salem, the capital, for a number of years. He worked, also, for quite an extended period in the Salem woolen mills, being a weaver by trade. He was among the first weavers employed in Oregon City. He was married in Salem. Our subject's mother, Cynthia (Pugh) Hamilton, is a native of Kansas ; her parents of Scotland. At present she lives with the subject at Moro. She crossed the plains in 1860, going to Marysville, California. In 1872, the family removed to Salem, Oregon, and later went to Wheeler county, where her father engaged in the stock business. He died in Fossil in the spring of 1896. In 1878 our subject's parents moved to Prineville where they engaged in the stock business. It was at Prineville that he laid the foundation of an excellent business education and was, also, three years at the Northwestern University, at Salem. He then learned the machinist's trade at Portland, returning to Fossil in 1903. Here he assumed charge of the electric plant for several months, going thence to Condon, Gilliam county, where he installed an electric plant and conducted the same two months. Mr. Hamilton then came to Moro, opened a fine steam laundry in which he placed three thousand five hundred dollars worth of the latest improved machinery, including a ten-horse power steam engine. He has established agencies in Sherman, Wheeler and Crook counties, and is doing as good work as can be found anywhere on the northwestern coast. Our subject is single. Fraternally his affiliations are with Fossil Lodge, No. 110, I. O. O. F., and the W. W. Politically he is in line with the principles of the Republican party, although by no means an active politician. It should be here remarked that the father of our subject was a very successful cattle raiser, an influential citizen and one who was highly respected by all. Our subject is an only child. ******************* Submitted to the Oregon Bios. Project in July 2007 by Diana Smith. Submitter has no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned above.