Emil B. Hatch (1877-1956)

HATCH

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Date: 9/3/2023 at 21:17:45

Emil Bigelow Hatch
(March 31, 1877 – November 29, 1956)

Emil Bigelow Hatch is one of the younger representatives of the bar in Calhoun County, but has already attained a creditable position in the ranks of the legal fraternities, and will no doubt win greater success as the years pass by. He was born in Afton, DeKalb County, Illinois, March 31, 1877, and is the son of Wallace W. and Betsey M. (Chaffee) Hatch, the former a native of New York and the latter of Connecticut. In early life Mr. Hatch Sr. engaged in merchandising and later followed the carpenter's trade. Having left the east he took up his abode in Illinois and was there having at the time the slavery question in the south involved the country in Civil war. He therefore with patriotic spirit responded to the call for troops, enlisting in Company I, Thirty-first Illinois Infantry, with which he served for three years, when he was honorably discharged. Of recent years he has resided in Colorado, where both he and his wife now make their home. At one time he walked the entire distance from Kansas to Arizona, seeking a home for his family. In the family are three children, two sons and a daughter, namely: Francelia M., aged twenty-nine years; Delzaberth, aged twenty-seven years; and Emil B. Accompanying his parents in their removal to Colorado, Emil B. was there reared. He pursued his education in the public schools and after completing the high school course, he took up the study of law, which he pursued for five years under the direction of Judge Minor and Judge Atwood, both of Colorado. Later he was a student for two years in the University of Colorado and was graduated in the class of 1898. The following year he was admitted to the bar and for a year afterward was in the office of Judges Minor and Atwood on a salary. He then went to Sterling, Logan County, Colorado, where he practiced for about a year as partner of a learned and able judge of Logan County, and in 1900 came to Farnhamville, Calhoun County, Iowa, where he is now located. He gives his entire attention to his profession and has already gained a good clientage, and has had actual practice in all the courts of the state.
On the 23d of June, 1901, Mr. Hatch was united in marriage to Miss Enola Mae Mendenhall Warner, who was born in Bangor, Marshall County, lowa, October 30, 1878, a daughter of William and Eliza (McDaniels) Mendenhall. Her father died in 1881, but her mother is residing near Lohrville, Iowa, ten miles west of Farnhamville. In his political affiliations Mr. Hatch has always been a staunch Republican, and in his religious views is a Methodist, but does not
hold membership with any church. Fraternally he is associated with the Modern Woodmen Camp, No. 7318, of Colorado. A young man, ambitious, determined and resolute, he has already gained an enviable position for one of his years as a representative of the legal profession, and his business is constantly increasing in volume and importance. His genial manner and courteous disposition have made him popular and he has gained a large circle of friends in the
community. [Source - Biographical Record of Calhoun County, Iowa, by S. J. Clarke, 1902, p.576]