Hamilton was the early home of William Dean Howells, whose recollections of it are to be found in his A Boy's Town; his father's anti-slavery sentiments made it necessary for him to sell his printing office, where the son had learned to set type in his teens, and to remove to Dayton.
Howells, published in 1910 a series of personal recollections in Harper's Magazine.
Howells, My Literary Friends and Acquaintance (New York, 1900) which contains a valuable account of Longfellow's later life.
Meantime Howells had written his Atlantic notice of Tom Sawyer, and now inclosed Clemens a proof of it.
Glenn had to give pedicures to his mother and massage her back as did John Howells, his younger brother.
