Fergus Falls.
Special to the Globe.
Mrs. A. C. Hatch, of Battle Lake, died quite suddenly on Tuesday evening, being sick only eight hours. She leaves a husband and two-year-old daughter….
Source:
The Saint Paul Daily Globe
Saturday Morning, January 1, 1887
Volume IX, Number 1, Page 5
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Grain Shippers Elect.
VINING, Minn., Aug. 5. – At the annual meeting of the Northwestern Independent Grain Shippers’ association the following officers were elected: A. C. Hatch, Battle Lake, president…
Source:
The Saint Paul Globe
Sunday Morning, August 6, 1899
Volume XXII, Number 218, Page 3
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Member of Executive Committee of the Retail Hardware Dealers’ association - A. C. Hatch, Battle Lake
Source:
The Saint Paul Globe
Friday Morning, February 16, 1900
Volume XXIII, Number 47, Page 3
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A. C. Hatch, of Battle Lake, president of the Hardware Dealers’ Insurance…
Member of Executive Committee of the Retail Hardware Dealers’ association - A. C. Hatch, Battle Lake
Source:
The Saint Paul Globe
Friday Morning, February 28, 1902
Volume XXV, Number 59, Page 10
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Member of the Board of Directors of the Minnesota retail implement dealers association
A. C. Hatch
Source:
The Saint Paul Globe
Thursday Morning, March 9, 1905
Volume XXVIII, Number 68, Page 3
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ADSIT C. HATCH
One of the most prominent business men and citizens of Otter Tail county, Minnesota, and, in point of years, the oldest merchant in Battle Lake, Minnesota, is a native of Dane county, Wisconsin, where he was born on July 12, 1855.
Adsit C. Hatch is the son of Lorenzo and Clara E. (Adsit) Hatch, both of whom were natives of New York state, the former having been born on March 17, 1822, and the latter on September 29, 1821. Mr. Hatch’s paternal grandparents were Wells and Mary (Rexford) Hatch, who were natives of Connecticut and New York state, respectively. They immigrated from New York state to Virginia, where they both died. Mr. Hatch’s grandfather was killed during the Civil War. He was a soldier in the First Virginia Cavalry. His death occurred in 1862, when he was seventy-four years old. Timothy Hatch, who was Adsit C. Hatch’s great-grandfather, was the son of Jethro Hatch, a major in the Revolutionary War. Major Jethro Hatch participated in the battle of Ticonderoga. Timothy Hatch, the son of Jethro Hatch, enlisted in the Revolutionary army at the age of seventeen and took part in the battle of Saratoga. He was a pensioner at the time of his death in 1856 at the age of ninety-six years. The Hatch family is of English descent.
Mr. Hatch’s maternal grandparents were Stephen and Elizabeth (Hyer) Adsit, natives of New York state. They immigrated to Dane county, Wisconsin, and there they both died.
Mr. Hatch’s father moved to Virginia when he was eighteen years old. For several years he was superintendent of public works in the District of Columbia. In 1852 his parents located in Dane county, Wisconsin, and there took up a farm. Lorenzo Hatch died in Dane county in June, 1911. His wife had died in 1861. They had four children, Susan, Mary, Clara and Adsit. Lorenzo Hatch was a Democrat in politics, a member of the Legislature and deputy provost marshal during the Civil War. He was a member of the Presbyterian church.
Adsit C. Hatch was reared in Dane county, Wisconsin, on a farm and educated in the public schools. He completed his education at Albion
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Academy, the Wisconsin State University and was graduated from a business college at Madison. Until he was twenty-one years old, Mr. Hatch lived on the farm. Shortly after his twenty-first birthday he went to Texas where he lived for two years. He then returned to Wisconsin and lived for two years and then established himself in business at Evansville. Mr. Hatch came to Battle Lake in 1881 and has been continuously in business since that time. He has the longest business career in this town of any man now in business. Mr. Hatch owns the grain elevator at Battle Lake, farm lands in Otter Tail county and other important industrial and financial interests.
On March 9, 1890, Adsit C. Hatch was married to Louisa Sahol, of Battle Lake, Minnesota. To them have been born eleven children, all of whom are living, namely: Susie, Agnes, Charles, Hattie, Edith, Carrie, Alice, Elizabeth, Dorothy, Hester and Lorenzo.
Few men have taken a more active interest in the work of the Minnesota Anti-saloon League than Adsit C. Hatch. He is an implacable foe of the liquor traffic and an ardent believer and advocate of temperance. Mr. Hatch is independent in politics and has never aspired to office. The Hatch family are all members of the Lutheran church and take an active interest in religious affairs.
Source:
History of Otter Tail County Minnesota, Volume II
Its People, Industries and Institutions
Edited by John W. Mason
B. F. Bowen & Company, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana, 1916
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Adsit C. Hatch
Date of Death: 15 April 1929, Otter Tail County