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Harriet Quimby's fatal crash the meet practically folded up and little flying was done. On July 26th and 27th Hamilton and Nels Nelson flew at Barlin, Connecticut, Fair Grounds, and as an added stunt fought a sham serial duel, making a number of flights. August 4th he flew at Hartford, Connecticut. On August 26th he and several other pilot members resigned from the Aero Club of America in protest of the manner of supervising air meets, and on August 31st his pilot license was reinstated. Reportedly still flying for Curtiss, Hamilton gave an exhibition at Johnstown, Pennsylvania on September 12th, the first flights ever made there, then on September 17th he and William S. Lucky were at York, Pennsylvania. On October 26th he flew at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, then at Staunton, Virginia. On November 5th he flew at the Aeronautical Societies Meet at Oakwood Heights, Staten Island, New York with George Beatty, N.B. Brown, Cecil Peoli and Ruth Law. there he made two very fine flights.
On January 2nd, 1913 Hamilton had another smashup while flying at the Ostrich Farm, Jacksonville, Florida, but was not hurt, and after repsirs were made he continued to fly there into February.  On February 19th he had an accident there that put him in the hospital again.  After being discharged he returned home where he remained until September when he was flying again at Hartford, Connecticut with a new biplane using his Christie engine.  In December he was flying Frank Boland's tailless biplane at Hempstead, Long Island, New York, and on January 7th, 1914 he flew the Boland flying boat, equipped with an automatic stabilizer, on Newark Bay, Newark, New Jersey.
On January 22nd, 1914 Hamilton died suddenly in bed at his apartment in New York City from an internal lung hemorrhage, at age 29.  He had been married twice and was survived by his wife and parents.  He was buried in Cedar Hill Cemetery, Hartford, Connecticut.  Thus was ended a short, tumultuous, but fabulous, early career in the history of American Flying Pioneers.
Charles K. Hamilton devoted his entire life to showmanship of the early air age and was one of those who merged from the ballooning days to flying, but always before the public. As a circus performer he was tops in his field.  At the 

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