Ernan C. Hathaway

HATHAWAY, MATHER, PRIOR, HASSON, MCCURLY

Posted By: LuAnn Goeke (email)
Date: 10/24/2009 at 21:43:23

Ernan Hathaway, who has resided on a farm in Iowa township, Crawford Co., Iowa, since 1880, is one of the prominent and popular men of his township. Briefly given, a sketch of his life is as follows:
Mr. Hathaway is a native of the "Hawkeye" State. He was born in Jackson Co., June 16, 1856, and comes from a family of pioneers and soldiers. His father, E.S. Hathaway, was born in Vermont, son of Levi Hathaway, also a native of that State. The latter was a soldier in the war of 1812, and was a son of a Revolutionary soldier. They trace their ancestry back to the English. Levi Hathaway married Betsey Mather, who was born in New York, and whose father, Dr. Mather, was a prominent surgeon in the Revolutionary war. In 1833 they moved to Summit Co., Ohio, locating in the town of Boston, where they lived until 1851. That year they came to Iowa and established their home in Jackson Co., where they passed the rest of their lives and died. They had a family of four sons and two daughters. One son, Seth H., a soldier in the late war, died in hospital at Baltimore, Maryland.
E.S. Hathaway was reared and educated in Summit Co., Ohio and was married in North Hampton, that State, to Eunice C. Prior, who was born and reared in Ohio, daughter of C.C.P. Prior. E.S. Hathaway lived in Jackson Co., Iowa from 1851 til 1880, when he moved to Ottawa Co., Kansas. He and his daughter are still residents of Ottawa Co. His family is composed of four sons and one daughter, namely; G.A. of Cedar Co., Nebraska; George P., a Methodist minister of Vincent, Iowa; Ernan of Crawford Co., Iowa; D.C. of Ottawa Co., Kansas; and Orrie. All received good educational advantages and three were successful teachers.
Ernan Hathaway grew up on his father's farm, and was for some time engaged in teaching in Jackson and Linn counties. In 1880 he settled on eighty acres of wild land in this Co. and subsequently bought eighty acres of improved land from his brother, G.A. He now has 160 acres of good land, each eighty having a story and a half cottage house on it. On one place is a grove and orchard of nine acres. His barn is 18 x 36 feet, and his granary, cribs, feed lots, stock scales, fences, etc. etc., are all conveniently arranged and kept in the best of order. He gives special attention to stock-raising, having some thoroughbred cattle and hogs, and also some fine horses.
Mr. Hathaway was married in November, 1879, in Jackson Co., Iowa, to Melissa Hasson, who, previous to her marriage, was engaged in teaching. She is a daughter of William and Ann (McCurly) Hasson, natives of Canada. Mr. and Mrs. Hathaway have had four children, two of whom, Ida M. and Beryl are living. Maggie Jane and Leafy died in infancy. Mr. Hathaway is a member of the I.O.O.F., No. 222 and in politics is a Republican. - 1893 Biographical History Crawford, Ida and Sac Counties, Chicago: Lewis Publishing Company, Pages 266-267