LEM. C. HATTON
L. C. Hatton, the present sheriff, was elected to the office in October, 1883, and assumed its duties with the opening of the present year (1884).
Lem. C. Hatton, the present sheriff of Cass county, is a native of Connersville, Fayette county, Indiana, and was born on the 29th day of November, 1846. He is the son of Aquila Hatton, a native of Baltimore, Maryland, and of Sarah M. (VanOsdel) Hatton, who was born in New York (both Aquila and Sarah M. were born in the year 1803). Mr. Hatton's parents were married in the "Monumental City," in 1829, and were the parents of nine children, six sons and three daughters,, seven of whom arrived at the years of manhood and womanhood. Aquila Hatton, Sr., died July 9, 1874, in Connersville. Sarah M. is still living in Connersville, Indiana, and has reached the advanced age of eighty-two years. Mr. and Mrs. Hatton, the elder, were life-long members of the M. E. church, and active workers in the same. Lem. C. was reared in the town of his nativity, and received his education in the common schools of his native city and at Albany university, at Greencastle. While attending school at the latter place the late civil war broke out, which fired the patriotic heart that beat in Lem's bosom with a desire to do his duty by his flag and country, causing him to enlist in the Sixty-first Ohio Infantry, in which regiment he served until the expiration of his term of service. He immediately re-enlisted in the Sixteenth Indiana Mounted Infantry, Company A, but was afterwards transferred to the Thirteenth Indiana Cavalry. He participated in that famous raid under General Grierson, which helped demonstrate the rottenness of the Confederacy. He was mustered out and discharged with his regiment on the 23d of November, 1865, and returned to his home. He was married in Connersville, on the 28th day of May, 1867, to Miss Lida H. Jones, a daughter of William C. and Mary Jones, of Fayette county. This union was blessed by two children, Scott K. and Mary V., who still survive. Mrs. Hatton was a sincere Christian woman and indulgent mother. She died in the spring of 1878. In 1879, on the 24th day of November, Lem. C. was married to Miss Kate Eva Wheaton, of Agency City, Iowa, a daughter of J. S. and Nancy A. Wheaton. This union is blessed with a son, Lemuel Garfield. Lem. C. moved to Cass county in the spring of 1880, locating at the town of Griswold and engaging in the general mercantile business, in which he remained until his election to the office which he now holds. On his entering upon his official life he removed to Atlantic, the seat of county government, where he now resides. Mr. H. is a member of the Masonic fraternity, Knights of Pythias, and of the Grand Army of the Republic. As an able and efficient officer, Mr. Hatton meets and merits the approbation of the law-abiding portion of the community and the respect of all.
Contributed by Lisa Varnes-Rex from "History of Cass County, Iowa. Together With Sketches of its Towns, Villages and Townships, Educational, Civil, Military and Political History: Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Old Settlers and Representative Citizens." Springfield, Ill.: Continental Historical Company, 1884, pg. 368-369.
