Sedgwick County KS Archives Biographies.....Hattan, Clarence A. 1868 - ************************************************ 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 sdgenweb@yahoo.com March 25, 2007, 8:45 pm Author: O. H. Bentley (1910) Clarence A. Hattan, secretary of the Wichita Supply Company, and one of its organizers, is a native of Indiana, where he was born in the town of Charleston in 1868. His parents were D. H. and Margaret J. (Walker) Hattan, natives of Indiana, who left that state and came to Kansas in 1870, locating at first in Butler county, from whence they removed in 1880 to Sedgwick county. Both are now deceased. Clarence A. Hattan was educated in the public schools and early learned the printers' trade, which he followed in Wichita for fifteen years. He then engaged in the hardware and implement business in Mt. Hope, Kansas, which he continued until 1900, when he returned to Wichita and engaged in the harness and hardware business until 1907, when he became interested in the organization of the Wichita Supply Company, which handles machinery supplies, gasoline engines, etc. The officers of the company are as follows: Charles Waltercheid, president; Daniel Martin, vice president; C. A. Hattan, secretary; E. R. DeYoe, treasurer. Mr. Hattan was married on December 30, 1908, to Miss Cora A. West, of Wichita. Fraternally Mr. Hattan is a member of the Masonic lodge. Additional Comments: Extracted from History of Wichita and Sedgwick County: past and present, including an account of the cities, towns and villages of the county Editor in chief: O. H. Bentley Chicago: C.F. Cooper & Co. (1910) File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ks/sedgwick/bios/hattan315gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/ksfiles/ File size: 2.0 Kb