Patrons financed Hamilton's education. Who pitched in to send young Alexander to America?

At 11 years old, Hamilton worked as a trading company clerk in St. Croix. A hurricane hit the island in 1772, and Hamilton put his writing skills to work, describing the natural disaster in a brilliantly-written letter. The letter was published, and it drove locals to put some money together to send Hamilton to study in America. And so, he was sent to New York later that same year, just as the war of independence was about to erupt.

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