Hatfield, George E.

HATFIELD

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Date: 6/29/2021 at 11:47:58

History of Warren County, Iowa from Its Earliest Settlement to 1908, by Rev. W. C. Martin, Clarke Publishing Co., Chicago, Illinois, 1908, p.620

GEORGE E. HATFIELD
Dr. G. E. Hatfield, who since 1892 has been engaged in the practice of medicine and surgery in Lacona, has gained a large and lucrative patronage during these years. He is a native of Oregon, Holt County, Missouri, born April 21, 1868, a son of Rev. J. L. and Helen M. (Carpenter) Hatfield. The father is a native of the Buckeye state, where he was reared, acquiring his education in the Ohio State University, while later he was ordained to the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He was first identified with the Missouri conference, being located at Oregon, that state and later was pastor of the churches at Trenton and at Chillicothe, Missouri. Later he was elected to a chair in the Ohio State University and for fourteen years was a noted educator in that institution of learning but resigned and removed to Indianola, where he now makes his home. His sketch appears elsewhere in this volume. Mrs. Hatfield is the daughter of Dr. E. G. Carpenter, a noted physician and surgeon of the Buckeye state.
Dr. G. E. Hatfield accompanied his parents on their various removals and was mostly reared and educated in Indianola, he entered Simpson College, where he spent four years. Deciding upon the profession of medicine as a life work he then began to study under Dr. L. Baker, a prominent physician and surgeon of that place and later took a course of lectures in the State University. He then spent three years in Rush Medical College, at Chicago, Illinois, being graduated from that institution in the class of 1892. During the periods of vacation he practiced with his preceptor, Dr. Baker, and after completing his course located for practice in Lacona., where he has been located ever since. He is meeting with excellent success, his services being sought not only in the city but also in the surrounding districts.
Dr. Hatfield was married in 1896 to Miss Olive Snuggs, a native of Iowa, who was born and reared in Warren County, where she was engaged in teach­ing prior to her marriage.
The Doctor and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church and are workers in the church and Sunday school. In his fraternal rela­tions he is identified with the blue lodge at Lacona, in which he attained the degree of Master Mason, and has served as master of the lodge at Lacona three times during the last fifteen years, while both he and his wife are mem­bers of the Eastern Star, in which the latter has served through all the chairs. In the strict path of his profession the Doctor is identified with the State Medical and the Des Moines Valley Medical Societies. His political allegiance is given to the Republican Party. He has served as health officer of Lacona for the past fifteen years. The Doctor is well known throughout Warren County and stands high in the estimation of his professional brethren, while in the social circles of La­cona both he and his wife are prominent.