Mecosta County MI Archives Biographies.....Hatfield, George E. September 29, 1829 - 
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Author: Chapman Brothers

GEORGE E. HATFIELD, farmer and miller, sec. 1, Wheatland Tp., was born in 
Schenectady Co., N.Y., Sept. 29, 

1829.  He is the son of Stephen and Phebe (Priest) Hatfield, natives of New 
York, of English descent.  Mr. 

Hatfield was educated in the State Normal School at Albany, N.Y., where he was 
fitted for the profession 

of teacher, a calling upon which he entered when 20 years of age, and pursued 
until he was 40 years old.  

He was married Feb. 10, 1853, in Wayne Co., N.Y., to Lois J., daughter of 
Orrin and Betsey H. (Reed) 

Lapham, of New York.  She was born in Wayne County, Sept. 28, 1832, and was 
educated at Elmira, N.Y., 

preparatory to becoming a teacher, which calling she followed but a brief 
period before marriage.

Mr. Hatfield was engaged in agriculture summers and in teaching winters, in 
his native State, until the 

spring of 1858, when he came to Allegan Co., Mich., there resuming the same 
alternation of employment.  In 

1860 he made another transfer, going to Kalamazoo County, where he remained 
nine years.  IN 1869 he 

returned to Allegan County and embarked in the mercantile business at 
Plainwell, where he continued to 

operate until the spring of 1878, the date of his settlement in Mecosta 
County.  He located on 160 acres 

of unimproved land, where he set himself vigorously at work, and has brought 
the place to a comparitively 

improved condition; has 45 acres under the plow, and other evidences of 
successful effort are manifest on 

the farm.  He has erected a saw and shingle mill, the former having a capacity 
of 10,000 feet per diem, 

the latter of 40,000 shingles daily.  Mr. Hatfield is an ardent supporter of 
the tenets of the Republican 

party.  The tendency and characteristics of the family are clearly proven by 
the status of the nine 

children, five daughters and four sons all of whom are following in the 
footsteps of the parents.  Their 

births occurred as follows:  Mary E., Nov. 7, 1853; Carrie P., Feb. 25, 1856; 
Wm. B., July 12, 1858, Ellen 

L., Apr. 21, 1862; Ira L., Aug. 16, 1864; JJustin K., Oct. 16, 1867; Cora A., 
May 23, 1870; Julius C., May 

11, 1873; Charles E., Dec. 6, 1877.  The oldest child is a graduate of 
Plainwell Academy, Mich.

Additional Comments:
1883 Portrait & Bio Album of Mecosta Co., MI.

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