Hatswell, Lewis A. (1858-1933)

HATSWELL

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Date: 9/22/2019 at 22:52:36

Lewis Albert Hatswell
June 8, 1858 - Feb 26, 1933

(From the 1891 Biographical History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, p.657)
L. A. HATSWELL is one of the prominent and successful stock dealers of Pottawattamie County, Iowa. He came here in the spring of 1881 and has since made Grover Township his home.
Mr. HATSWELL was born in Iowa County, Wisconsin, June 8, 1858, son of John and Mary (COLLARD) HATSWELL, both natives of England. His father settled in Wisconsin in 1849. L.A. spent his boyhood days in Iowa County and when in his teens came with his parents to the state of Iowa and located in Montgomery County, where he grew to manhood. He received his education in the public schools, and was reared to the stock business from his youth up.
In 1881 he came to his present location and purchased eighty acres of wild land, to which he afterward added 160 acres more, making 240 in one body, in section 26. This farm is now well improved, having a good frame house, two barns, cribs, yards, windmill, feed lots, and other modern conveniences. One of the barns is 26 X 30 feet and the other, which was built in 1890, is 36 X 48 feet, with sixteen-feet posts, and with a rock basement. Mr. HATSWELL also owns 103 acres of improved land in section 19. Last year he raised some 4,000 bushels of corn, feeding a large amount of it to his stock, having about 200 head of cattle and 300 hogs. He deals extensively in cattle, buying, feeding, shipping and selling, and has been very successful in his business undertakings. At different times, he has been in partnership with William LEWIS, in shipping stock. Mr. HATSWELL is a Republican. He is a gentleman of integrity and is frank and cordial in his manner. Although comparatively a young man, he is numbered financially, socially, and politically among the enterprising and successful businessmen of Grove Township.