A Portrait and Biographical Record of Hendricks County (Chicago: A.W. Bowen & Co., 1895)--page 1098
Capt. James W. Hamrick is one of the ex-officers of the Civil War and a prominent citizen of Hendricks County. His father, William F. Hamrick, came to Hendricks County, in 1834, from Kentucky. Capt. James W. Hamrick was born May 13, 1838, in Hendricks County, but left home when young and worked at farm work, and went to Iowa when thirteen years of age and worked at the same vocation. Returning to Indiana, he enlisted, at Greencastle, July 6, 1861, in Company G, Twenty-first Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry, for three years, and promoted first lieutenant on the organization of the regiment and commissioned captain for meritorious services on the field. He served until November 22, 1864. Capt. Hamrick married, March 13, 1864, Emma O. Hadley, nee Wells, a widow, and daughter of Joshua Wells, of Harrodsburg, Ky. She died November 1, 1892, and Capt. Hamrick married, June 29, 1893, Margaret J. Miller, daughter of Joseph S. and Jane (Fletcher) Miller. Captain Hamrick is a member of the I.O.O.F., Danville lodge, and of Jesse Ogden post, G.A.R. In his politics he is a Republican, has held the office of justice of the peace thirteen years, and represented the county, in 1892, in the state legislature. Captain Hamrick has been engaged in the mercantile business at Danville, and in farming 220 acres two miles west of that city.