Wayne-Randolph County IN Archives Biographies.....Hiatt, Riley 1824 - 
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Author: History of Wayne County, Indiana;Volume II, (1884)

Wayne Township
p. 784 & 785

Riley Hiatt, youngest son of John and Margaret (Nichols) Hiatt, was born in 
Wayne County, Ind., in 1824. His father died when he was ten months old. He 
obtained a common-school education, and when fourteen years old learned the 
cabinet-maker's trade, which he followed in Fountain City, Ind., for four 
years. The following eight years he followed the wagon-maker's trade during 
the winter, and in the summer he worked at the carpenter's trade. He was 
married at the age of twenty-four years to Hannah A. Coburn, who died in the 
year 1849, leaving one daughter---Hannah A., wife of Dunham Hampton, of Wayne 
County. In 1852 Mr. Hiatt was again married to Elizabeth P. Stidham, of Wayne 
County. To them have been born seven children---George R., Mary E. (deceased), 
Ellen N. (deceased), John I., Joseph P. Albert C. and Lena M. Mr. Hiatt began 
life empty-handed, but by industry and good management he has become the 
largest land-owner in the settlement. He now owns 324 acres of well-improved 
land, and has some of the best springs of water in the township, the best of 
which is at his residence. Mr. Hiatt also makes a specialty of stock-raising 
and dealing in fine stock. He is politically a Republican. Mr. Hiatt's 
ancestors came from Germany to the United States with William Penn. His 
parents were born, reared and married in Guilford County, N.C., and in 1809 
they came to Wayne County, Ind., where his father entered land near Cox's 
Mills. His father was a hatter and blacksmith by trade, which he followed in 
connection with agricultural pursuits. They belonged to the Methodist 
Episcopal church till their death. To them were born nine children---Ruth, 
wife of Jonathan Hiatt, had fifteen children; Caleb, of Oregon, had seven 
children; Leah, deceased, wife of Robert Barr, had three children; Mary, wife 
of Joseph Unthank, residing in Oregon, had two children; Marue deceased, wife 
of Eli L. Davis, of Jay County, Ind., had six children; Phares, of Randolph 
County, Ind., had nine; and Esther, wife of James Sweney, of Kansas, has five 
children.


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