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T. M. Hamlet was born on Blue-Grass soil April 26, 1830, but the most of his life has been spent in the State of Arkansas, where he now owns land to the amount of 1,000 acres, of which 200 acres are under cultivation. His father was of English descent, a Kentuckian by birth, and was a participant in the Revolutionary War, being under Washington at Yorktown, but passed from life in Ashley County, Ark., in the year 1853. The subject of this sketch has followed the calling of a farmer from his earliest youth, and consequently is thoroughly conversant with every detail of this work, but on first starting out in life for himself he was a raftsman on the Saline River. On December 30, 1859, his marriage to Miss Marguerite Harris took place, she being a daughter of William Harris, of Ashley County, and their union lasted until September 20, 1880, when she sickened and died. Mr. Hamlet took for his second wife Mrs. Julia Pippin, but by her has no children. They have been members of the Missionary Baptist Church for the past ten years, and in his political views Mr. Hamlet is a Democrat, but is liberal in his views. He has always been noted for the interest he has manifested in worthy enterprises and for his liberal contributions to the same, being especially generous in his donations to churches and schools.