HATFIELD
HATTON
Milllrr (1895); John ]]'.:- 1, ',/.s Tr<iii.-<l<tti<m.<i of <;er-
nuiii Jlymus (189(1); Materials far (rmmin Campo-
siti">i (189(5) ; The Earliest Poemti of W'ilhelm Miiller
(1898) : Church Mtmc (1898) ; UhlaiuVs E'lrlivH
Ballad and its Source (1898); (ioethe (1899); and
German Lyrics and Ballads (1900); aud edited
Freytag's L'ittmeister ron Alt-I{i>sen (1894), and
Goetlie's Hermann und D»r<>th<,i (1899).
HATFIELD, Marcus Patten, pliysician, was born iu Xew York city, Fol). '^o, 1849; sou of tlie Rev. Robert M. and Eliza l>eth A. Hatfield; grands<.>n of Elislia Hatfield of Mount Pleasant, N.Y. ; and a de.scendant of Peter Hatfield, who settled in White Plains, N.Y., about 1640. He was graduated at Wesleyan luiiversity in 1870 and tcR)k a course iu medicine at the Cliicago medical college, 1870-72. He was house surgeon and physician in Mercy hospital, Chicago, 1872- 73. and lectured on pliysiology and hygiene in Cincinnati Wesleyan university in 1873. He was chosen as commissioner from Illinois to represent that state at the "Vienna exposition, and travelled extensively in Europe and attended medical lectures in Berlin, Zurich and London. On his return he was made lecturer on cliemistr}- at the Chicago medical college and was chosen professor of inorganic chemistry and toxicology in 1877, at the same time filling the chair of pediatrics. He was married, Dec. 21, 1876, to Hattie A., daughter of Bishop William L. Harris. He was made secretary of Wesley hospital, Chicago, on its organization. He was elected a member of the American academy of medicine in 1884 and president of the medical board of the Jack- son Park Fresli Air sanitarium. He is the author of frequent contributions to the Archives of Pediatrics and other medical jovirnals on subjects connected with the care and diseases of children.
HATHEWAY, Samuel Gilbert, representa- tive, was born in Freetown, Mass., Jul}- 18, 1780. In 1789 his father died and he was obliged to earn a living by working uix»n farms. Later he went to sea and managed to save a small sum of money from his earnings. About 1800 he re- moved to ODrtland county, N.Y""., and there pur- cha-sed three hundred acres of uncleared land. He cultivated liis land and accumulated consid- erable property. He was jvLstice of the peace, for the town of Solon, Cortland county, 1810-r)3; represented Cortland county in the state assem- bly in 1814 and 1818; was a state senator in 1823, and was commissioned major-general of militia in 1823. He was a Democratic representative in the 23d congress, 1833-35; a presidential elector in 1853, voting for Franklin Pierce for President; and a delegate to the Democratic national con- vention of 1856 that nominated James Buchanan. A memoir of his life was written by Henry S. Randall. ( 1867) . He died in Solon, N. Y. .May 2, 1867.
HATHEWAY, Samuel Gilbert, soldier, was
born in Freetown, Mass., Jan. 18, 1810; son of
Sanuiel Gilbert Hatheway. He was graduated
from Union college in 1831, was subsequently
admitted to the bar and in 1833 began practice
in Elmira, N.Y". He was in the state assembly,
1842-43, then returned to his law practice. In
1856 and again in 1862 he was the defeated can-
didate for representative in congress. In 1863 he
enlisted in the Union army, became colonel of
the 14th New Y'ork regiment, and afterward
commanded Abercrombie's brigade as acting
brigadier-general. He resigned because of ill
healtli and died at Solon, N.Y'., April 16. 1864.
HATTON, Frank, cabinet ofticer, was liorn in Cambridge, Ohio, April 26, 1846; son of Richard Hatton, editor of the liepubUcan, Cadiz, Ohio. He was given a good common school training and was brought up as a printer and acquired the journalistic art in his father's newspaper office. In 1862 he enlisted in the 98th Ohio volunteer regiment, was promoted 1st lieutenant in 1864 and at the close of the war settled in Iowa where he pub- lished the Mt. Pleas- ant Jour- nal, 1869- 74. He
then be- came part owner of the Bur- lington Haxckeye and postmaster of Burlington. In October. 1881, President Arthur made him assist- ant postmaster-general at Washington, and in October, 1884, on the retirement of Postmaster- General Gresham, he succeeded to the seat in the cabinet and remained a cabinet officer till March 4, 1885. During his service as assistant post- master-general he was editorially connected with the Xational Republican and in July. 1885. he be- came editor-in-chief of the Mail in Chicago, 111., where he lived till 1888, wlien he removed to New York city where he formed a syndicate and founded tlie New York Press in the interest of the Republican party and the election of Benjamin Harrison as President. After the election he removed to Washington and was part owner and editor in-chief of the Post. 1889-94. He died in Wasliinjrton. D.f"., April "O. IS'.U.
HATTON, Robert Hopkins, soldier, was born in Youiigstown. Ohio. Nov. 2. 1820; son of the Rev. Robert Clopton Hatton; and grandson of Reuben Hatton. a native of Virginia. In 1835 the family removed to Nashville, Tenn., in 1837 to Beach Grove. Sumner county, and in 1842 to Gallatin, Tenn., where Robert attended school •^nd vras a school teacher. He was graduated at
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