Guilford County NcArchives Biographies.....Hiatt, David A. January 31, 1817 - 
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Source: Inter-state Publishing Company (Chicago, Ill.). 
History of Wayne County, Indiana Together with Sketches of 
Its Cities, Villages and Towns ... and Biographies of 
Representative Citizens : History of Indiana and Northwest 
Territory. Chicago: Inter-state Pub. Co, 1884.
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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, NC, 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 Guilielma Sanders, who was born in Guilford County, NC., Dec. 23, 1784.  
Eleazer Hiatt was by trade a potter and a 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 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 the one where he now resides.  Mr. and Mrs. Heath have 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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