Hathaway, Marvin P. 1841 - 1901

HATHAWAY, CLARK, MCGILL

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Date: 5/19/2024 at 21:00:38

Source: Decorah Republican Aug. 22, 1901 P 2 C 3

The Passing of Another Pioneer.
Notice of the death of M. P. Hathaway is sent in, and published on the 4th page of this issue. Mr. H. was Clerk of the Courts in this county in 1869-70, when that officer did most of the duties now laid on the County Auditor. After his term expired he became a lawyer, and for a dozen years was an active factor in county politics, some of which was personal and frequently acrid; but he lived to outgrow all these and to develop the genialitv which, at heart, was one of his characteristics. As this writer recalls to mind the hot contests of that period, the bitterness then created fades out of memory, and the warm friendship that afterwards grew becomes of pleasant savor. We are again reminded that one by one the old timers are yielding to the ravages of years, and are passing away. Peace to his ashes!
Mrs. Hathaway, who survives him, was a daughter—the youngest, we think,—of Hon. John T. Clark, a pioneer lawyer of high rank, in northeastern Iowa. As a representative of this part of the state in the Constitutional Convention of 1857, he helped make the fundamental law by which Iowa is still satisfactorily governed.

Source: Decorah Republican Aug. 22, 1901 P 4 C 2

M. P. HATHAWAY.
Clerk of Courts Thirty Years Ago, Died in Chicago, Aug. 2d.
Marvin P Hathaway, for many years a resident of Decorah, died at his home, 450 Newport, Avenue, Chicago, Ills., Aug 2d, 1901.
Mr. Hathaway was born at Amsterdam, N V., April 15th, 1841. His father, who was a Universalist preacher, moved west in 51, finally settling in Fairmont, Minn., from which place Mr. Hathaway joined the 3d Minnesota volunteers, fighting with Co. I, until wounded in the ankle, after which he served with the hospital corps throughout the war. He settled in Decorah soon after peace was declared, practicing law until 1881, when he went to work in Milwaukee for the Western Electric Co. He was the pioneer in Milwaukee in electric street lighting enterprise, running the first electric arc lamp ever seen there, in front of the Plankinton hotel, in 1883. About this time he moved his family to Milwaukee, where he lived until 1893, when he moved to Chicago, and again engaged in the practice of the law. He was a man of brilliant mental equipment, and varied accomplishments.
M. P. Hathaway was the youngest of a family of seven, of whom the oldest, Sol P Hathaway, editor of the Indianpolis Independent is the sole survivor.
He had been paying a visit to his daughter, Mrs. McGill, of Wauwatosa, Wis., during the Elks’ carnival In Milwaukee, and returned home Monday, July 29th, apparently in the best of health, but was taken ill Monday night, and rapidly grew worse until his death, Friday morning. He is survived by his wife, who was Miss Emma J. Clark, and six children, four sons. Harry C., George W., Willis M., Frederick N., and two daughters, Miss Albertine E. Hathaway and Susan E., now Mrs. A. W. McGill. COM