Economic development can be defined as a sustained community effort to improve both the local economy and the quality of life by building the area's capacity to adapt to economic change (Loveridge and Morse). This definition suggests a distinction between economic growth and economic development.conomic development can be defined as a sustained community effort to improve both the local economy and the quality of life by building the area's capacity to adapt to economic change (Loveridge and Morse). This definition suggests a distinction between economic growth and economic development.
Hamilton was born out of wedlock in Charlestown, to a married mother of British and French Huguenot ancestry and a Scottish father. His father, James A. Hamilton, was the fourth son of laird Alexander Hamilton of Grange, Ayrshire. Orphaned as a child by his mother's death and his father's abandonment, Hamilton was taken in by an older cousin and later by a prosperous merchant family.
5.ROBERT HAMILTON 1.WILLIAM HAMILTON.  Robert Hamilton, a son of William Hamilton, was born in 1720 in Scotland and died in Rockbridge County VA in 1786. His will was dated March 25, 1786. He married Margaret McKee in 1724. Margaret, a daughter of William and Marian (Brown) McKee, was born in 1724 and died in 1789.