Wayne-Randolph County IN Archives Biographies.....Hiatt, Daniel W. January 31, 1817 - 
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Author: History of Wayne County, Indiana;Volume II, (1884)

Perry Township
p. 698

Daniel W. Hiatt was born in Clinton County, Ohio, Jan. 31, 1817, a son of 
Eleazer and Anna (Williams) Hiatt, both natives of Guilford County, N.C., of 
English and Scotch descent. His father was born Oct. 2, 1783, and his mother 
April 17, 1789. They moved to Ohio in 1816, and to Wayne County, Ind., in 
January, 1818, where his mother died the same year. His father afterward 
married Gulielma Sanders, who was born in Guilford County, N.C., Dec. 23, 
1784. Eleazer Hiatt was by trade a potter and bricklayer, and worked at his 
trade seven years after coming to Wayne County. He then bought a farm three 
miles east of Richmond, where he lived four years, when he moved to Newport, 
now Fountain City, and engaged in the mercantile business eight years, at the 
same time carrying on a pottery. In 1835 he moved to Washington, and was 
subsequently engaged in farming and merchandising till after the death of his 
second wife, when he retired from active business and lived with his children. 
He was an energetic, industrious man, and always alive to the interests and 
welfare of the community. He was specially active in anything that tended to 
advance the cause of temperance. He represented his county in the Legislature 
one term in 1825, and served as Magistrate seven years. Our subject remained 
with his parents till twenty-three years of age, excepting one year spent in 
Illinois. He was married Aug. 26, 1841, to Melinda, daughter of William and 
Rebecca (Coffin) Mendenhall. In 1846 he bought his first farm, and four years 
later sold it, and a year later bought a farm in Randolph County. In 1852 he 
sold his farm and bought the one where he now resides. Mr. and Mrs. Heath have 
had a family of eight children---Edwin W., Eliza Ann (died at the age of 
eighteen years), James A., Olive S., Lindon C., Emily R., Rebecca Ann and 
Esther C. They are members of the Society of Friends. Politically Mr. Hiatt is 
a Republican.


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