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at the Aeronautical Societies Meet at Oakland Heights, Staten Island, New York, with George Beatty, H.B. Brown, Cecil Peoli and Ruth Law. There he made two very fine flights.

✓ On January 2[[strikethrough]] nd [[/strikethrough]], 1913, Hamilton had another smashup while flying at the Ostrich Farm, Jacksonville, Florida, but was not hurt, and after repairs 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 Borland's tailless biplane at Hempstead, Long Island, New York, and on January 7, 1914, he flew the Boland flying boat, equipped with an automatic stabilizer, on Newark Bay, Newark, New Jersey.

✓ On January 22, 1914, Hamilton died suddenly in bed at his apartment in New York City from an internal lung hemorrhage, at 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 very impressive career.

Charles K. Hamilton devoted his entire active life to showmanship during the early air age progressing from the ballooning days to flying, always before the public. As a circus performer he had been tops. At the peak of his exhibition days he was known as a sensational aerial rough rider and caper-cutting daredevil. His famous dips and dives where his plane plunged downward in a long straight or spiral course, both with and without power, were crowd thrillers wherever he went. A stickler for keeping an engagement, he always strove to give the public what they came to see. A small wiry man, aerial public entertaining was in his blood to the very last. Even though for the last year or more of his flying days, he was evidently going on his nerve, he would not give up to his serious disabilities. During his active accident-prone career he had broken his collar bone twice, he had tow rib fractures, dislocated  his left arm, broken his ankle and both legs and had suffered cuts, burns and bruises