Will County IL Archives Biographies.....Hatch, John A 
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Author: Genealogical and Biographical Record of Will County

JOHN A. HATCH, general merchant and grain dealer at Mokena, Frankfort 
Township, was born in 1842 near his present place of residence. His father, 
John Hatch, who was born in England in 1816 and came to America in 1835, 
settled in Chicago and thence came to Will County, purchasing one hundred and 
sixty acres from the government at $1.25 an acre. In 1869 he moved from here 
to Linn County, Mo., and purchased a farm, where he has since made his home. 
He is a Republican and for several years served as road master. His wife was 
born in Scotland and died in Missouri in 1S93, aged eighty-two, leaving seven 
children: Eliza, John A., William, Charlotte, Edwin, Mary, and Charles (now 
deceased). In 1869 our subject went to Missouri with his parents, where he was 
afterward variousty employed until his return to Mokena in 1876. Here he was 
first employed in a mercantile store. Afterward he purchased the store and 
goods and has since carried on business for himself. Besides general 
merchandising, he deals in grain, feed, coal, tile, etc., and operates a feed 
mill and grain elevator. For several years he served as justice of the peace 
and school director. In 1862 he enlisted in Company B, Seventy-second Illinois 
Infantry, as a private. Later he was appointed a lieutenant in Company E, 
Forty-seventh United States Colored Infantry, attached to the department of 
the gulf, under General Canby. He took part in various engagements of the war, 
some of them being among the fiercest battles of the four years, but he was 
not once wounded or imprisoned. He is now a member of U. S. Grant Post, G. A. 
R., in Chicago. In 1866 he married Nancy M., daughter of Ozias McGovney, of 
Mokena. They have eight children: Jane, wife of Henry Stellwagen; Nannie E., 
wife of Samuel J. Fulton; John O., Grace E., Etta O., Elbert R., Lois V. and 
Alfred C.

Additional Comments:
Genealogical and Biographical Record of Will County Illinois Containing 
Biographies of Well Known Citizens of the Past and Present, Biographical 
Publishing Company, Chicago, 1900

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