Johnson-Elk County KS Archives Biographies.....Hatfield, F. J. 1861 - 
************************************************
Copyright.  All rights reserved.
http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
http://www.usgwarchives.net/ks/ksfiles.htm
************************************************

File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by:
Joy Fisher http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00001.html#0000031 October 10, 2008, 2:48 pm

Author: Ed Blair (1915)

  F. J. Hatfield, M. D., Olathe, Kan., is a leading member of the Johnson county
medical profession. Dr. Hatfield was born near Dayton, Ohio, October 19, 1861,
and is a son of John and Clarissa (Miller) Hatfield, both natives of Ohio and
descendants of pioneer American stock. The paternal grandfather Hatfield was a
native of Virginia and settled in the Northwest Territory, a part of which
composes the State of Ohio, about 1800, He and two other brothers were making a
trip down the Ohio river when they were attacked by hostile Indians and became
separated. The other two brothers were never heard from. John Hatfield, the
father of our subject, was engaged in the packing and cattle business at
Cincinnati before the Civil war. When that conflict came on, his business was
practically ruined and he met with heavy financial losses, and in 1862 removed
to Indiana and located twelve miles south of Fort Wayne, where he remained until
1878, his wife dying there in February, 1863, aged thirty-four years. Later he
came to Kansas and died at Grenola, April 3, 1893. The Hatfield family consisted
of seven children, as follows: Martha J. married William McBride, and is now a
widow, residing in Oklahoma; Horace, a capitalist, residing at Portland, Ore.;
Phoebe, now deceased, was the wife of James Heffling; Elizabeth married L.
Robinson, Holdenville, Okla.; Mary B., married George Earl, Fort Wayne, Ind.;
John M., retired, Pratt, Kan.; and Dr. F. P., [sic] the subject of this sketch.
Dr. Hatfield attended the public schools of Indiana until sixteen years of age,
when he removed to Illinois and attended a private school at Rushville, Ill. He
then taught school in Schuyler county, that State, for two years and in the
meantime also attended school. In 1880 he came to Kansas and was engaged in
teaching in Brown county for two years when he went to Elk county, where he also
was engaged in teaching for two years. He then took up the study of medicine
under the preceptorship of Dr. J. B. Lewis, of Howard, Kan., and after pursuing
his studies there one year, he entered the Eclectic Medical Institute,
Cincinnati, Ohio, where he was graduated in the close of 1886, with the degree
of Doctor of Medicine. During his vacation of 1885 he was engaged in practice at
Jackson, Tenn., when yellow fever was epidemic at that place. In 1886 he went to
Grenola, Elk county, and was engaged in the practice there until 1908. He also
studied pharmacy and passed the State board examination in 1901 and also
conducted a drug store in connection with his practice. Dr. Hatfield has had an
active business career outside of his field of professional work. He has been
largely interested in the development of the oil and gas field of Elk county,
having bought out a developing company there and after having done considerable
work in that line sold his interests to the Standard Oil Company at a good
substantial profit. However, he still owns several hundred acres of undeveloped
territory in that section of the State. In 1908 he came to Olathe where he has
since been engaged in the practice of his profession and has, perhaps, the best
practice in the county. He has a fine home on a forty-acre tract adjoining the
city of Olathe, on the west, and his offices are located on West Park Street,
opposite the court house. He is interested in various commercial enterprises in
Johnson county, being vice-president and director of the Patrons Bank and a
director in the Olathe Electric Light and Power Company. Dr. Hatfield has been
twice married, his first wife being Miss Mollie Elliott, daughter of R. M.
Elliott, of Grenola, Kan., to whom he was married December 27, 1887; she died
May 7, 1903. On June 11, 1905, Dr. Hatfield was united in marriage to Miss Mae
Haigler, of Elk county, Kansas. They have two children, Marie Patricia, born
March 17, 1907, and Franklin P., Jr., born May 26, 1912. Politically Dr.
Hatfield is a Democrat and takes a keen interest in the affairs of the party. He
has been a member of the Kansas State board of medical examination and
registration since 1901, with the exception of Governor Stubb's administration.
During the course of his residence in Elk county he served three terms as
coroner of that county and was a member of the board of United States pension
examiners during President Cleveland's second administration. He is a member of
the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and a member of the grand lodge. He was
trustee of his local lodge for twenty-five years. He is a thirty-second degree
Mason and belongs to the Wichita consistory. Dr. Hatfield has taken considerable
post-graduate work. In 1897 he took a course at the New York Post-Graduate
Medical School, specializing in operative surgery, and for a number of years
specialized in surgery but recently is devoting himself more along the lines of
general practice, and specializing in ear, eye, nose and throat diseases in
which he has met with unusual success.

Additional Comments:

Extracted from:

HISTORY OF Johnson County Kansas
BY
ED BLAIR

AUTHOR OF
Kansas Zephyrs, Sunflower Sittings and Other Poems and Sketches

IN ONE VOLUME

ILLUSTRATED
STANDARD PUBLISHING COMPANY
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
1915


File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ks/johnson/bios/hatfield224nbs.txt

This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/ksfiles/

File size: 5.8 Kb