Sad orphan story!
1. Alexander Hamilton
The United States’ first secretary of the treasury was always tight-lipped about his upbringing, which he called “the subject of the most humiliating criticism,” but there’s little doubt that it was a struggle.
Orphan story in english
Born in 1755 (some sources say 1757) on the Caribbean island of Nevis, Hamilton was the illegitimate son of a Scottish father and a French Huguenot mother who was still married to another man. His father abandoned the family when Alexander was 10, and his mother died from fever just a few years later, leaving Hamilton and his brother orphans.
A cousin tapped to serve as the boys’ guardian later committed suicide, but by then the teenaged Hamilton had secured a job as a clerk at an import-export firm on St. Croix. His intellect impressed his managers, and in 1773 a group of local businessmen put up the money to send him to New York, where he studied at what would eventually become Columbia University.
Once on the mainland, Hamilton delved into colonial