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Author: T. H. Ball (1904)

MAHLON HATHAWAY.

    Mahlon Hathaway is one of the representative agriculturists and
stock-raisers of West Creek township, and is a man whose success in life and
prominence as a citizen well deserve mention in such a historical record as this
present volume. He is a native of Kankakee county, Illinois, where he was born
November 17, 1856. He is the eldest of the three children, two sons and one
daughter, born to Bethuel and Lucinda (Hayden) Hathaway. His brother Henry, next
to him in age, is an agriculturist of West Creek township, a successful man, and
is married and has a family. Janie, the sister, is the wife of Charles Belshaw,
a farmer at Lowell. The father of this family was born in New York state about
1818, and died in Lake county, Indiana, when about seventy years old. He was
reared to manhood in his native state, and received his public school education
there. He was a pioneer of Lake county, being among those who came in 1843, and
he purchased a hundred and sixty acres of land in West Creek township and was a
successful farmer during the remainder of his active career. He acquired an
estate of two hundred and seventy-five acres, all situated in West Creek
township. He was an energetic personality, and in business affairs was
aggressive and prosperous. He was an out and out Republican in politics, and he
and his wife were members of the Methodist church.

    Mr. Hathaway was reared to the age of ten years in Kankakee county, and
since then has been a resident of Lake county. He was educated in the common
schools, and gained much of life's training by personal application. He had only
a small capital when he arrived at majority, and his subsequent success has been
almost entirely by his own efforts. He married Miss Julia Smith, by whom he had
three children, two living: Blanche completed the eighth grade of school, and
Carrie is at home and in the ninth grade of the Lowell high school. The mother
of these children died in 1886, and for his second wife Mr. Hathaway married
Miss Barbara Grimes, who is the mother of four children, as follows: Leslie, who
is in the eighth grade in school, and a bright lad in his studies; Gladys, in
the fifth grade; Lucille; and Archie, the youngest.

    Mrs. Hathaway was born in Kankakee county, Illinois, in 1866, and was reared
and educated in her native county. She was a student of the Valparaiso College,
and was also engaged in teaching for several years. Mr. Hathaway is a stanch
Republican, and cast his first vote for the lamented Garfield. He has been
chosen as a delegate to the county conventions, and has in various ways been
active in practical politics in this county. Mr. and Mrs. Hathaway are members
of the Methodist Episcopal church in West Creek township. Their homestead is in
this same township, where they possess one hundred and forty acres of good land.
The buildings about this farm are first class, and in 1898 he erected a modern
residence and one of the most charming homes in the neighborhood. He was
formerly engaged in the milk business, shipping all his product, but he has of
late years bought a De Laval separator and begun the making of butter at home,
which he finds a more satisfactory enterprise. Mr. Hathaway is one of the
successful men of the county, and has won a large degree of material prosperity
and attained the recognition and esteem of his fellow citizens through his well
directed efforts and honest endeavor.



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ENCYCLOPEDIA
OF
Genealogy and Biography
OF
LAKE COUNTY, INDIANA,
WITH A COMPENDIUM OF HISTORY 
1834—1904

A Record of the Achievements of Its People in the Making of a Commonwealth and
the Founding of a Nation.

REV. T. H. BALL
OF CROWN POINT, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
ILLUSTRATED
CHICAGO   NEW YORK
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
1904


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