Charles Mann Hamilton

(1874-1942)

HAMILTON HOME

BUILT 1925 BY CHARLES & BERTHA HAMILTON.  

CHARLES ELECTED TO NYS ASSEMBLY 1906 AND NYS SENATE 1908 & 1910.  

SERVED IN US CONGRESS 1913-1919.

WILLIAM G. POMEROY FOUNDATION 2021

Charles M. Hamilton and his wife, Bertha lived in this home in Ripley, NY.  Charles was born in Ripley on January 23, 1874.  He attended the Ripley High School, the Fredonia Normal School and later the Pennsylvania Miltary College at Chester, PA. Established in 1821, Widener University was known as the Pennsylvania Military Colllege until 1972. Charles Hamilton was a prominent Republican politician.  After his political service he returned to Ripley to farm and tend to his business interests including the production of oil and natural gas in Kansas.  He passed in Miami Beach, Florida on January 3, 1942 and was buried in Quincy Cemetery in Ripley, New York.  

Mrs. Bertha Lamberton Hamilton (1875-1944).

Bertha was born in Franklin, PA (Venango County)

 to 

Robert and Luella Jane (Chess) Lamberton

Charles and Bertha Hamilton

The Hamilton Mansion

The Hamilton Mansion has 32 rooms designed around the Hamilton's world travels with incredible unique architecture.  The mansion was built in 1925 at a cost of $750,000* in a design boasted to satisfy the "whims and fancies of wealthy persons, their architects or both."  It was the property of former Representative, Charles M. and Mrs. Bertha Lamberton Hamilton.  The Mansion was originally comprised of 16 acres.  It has a 1,500 square foot brick and block building originally built for a clinic in 1949.

*$750,000 in 1925 is roughly equivalent to $10,200,000 in 2025.

Alf Landon

(1887-1987)

Charles Mann Hamilton knew Alfred "Alf" Mossman Landon through their mutual interest in oil and natural gas production. Landon was an American oilman and politician who served as the 26th Governor of Kansas from 1933-1937. A member of the Republican Party, he was the party's nominee in the 1936 presidental election and was defeated in a landslide by incumbent President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Landon passed on October 12, 1987 becoming the only presidential candidate from either of the major parties to live to the age of 100 until President Jimmy Carter in 2024. Landon, to date, is the only Republican candidate to do so. 

During WWI Landon served in the U.S. Army chemical warfare service. 

Alf Landon came to the Hamilton Mansion when he was running for president of the United States in 1936.  Charles and Bertha hosted Alf Landon at their home.