Francis L. Hatch of Portsmouth, NH Biography from A History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire (1915)

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Source: A History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire and Representative Citizens
         by Charles A. Hazlett, Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., Chicago, Ill, 1915

Page 1064

   FRANCIS L. HATCH, who is co-partner with Arthur 0. Goodwin in
the ownership and operation of the Portsmouth Foundry Company, jobbers
in iron and brass castings, was born in Kittery, Me., June 18, 1887.  His
parents were Lozano and Martha (Dannenberg) Hatch, the father born in
Wells and the mother in Kittery, Me.  The father of our subject died and
his widow subsequently married Wallace C. Rounds.  Her only children
were by her first husband, namely: Edgar T., Francis L. and Aldana M.
   Francis L. Hatch acquired his education in the common schools, which
he left at the age of sixteen years.  Then, in October, 1903, he entered the
Portsmouth Navy Yard, where he learned the trade of moulder.  He was
thus employed until 1909, after which he worked in Derry, N. H., one year.

Pages 1065 & 1066 contained a portrait for a different biography

Page 1067

At the end of that time he returned to the navy yard where he continued
until October, 1911, when the corporation, with which he has since been
identified, was established.  He is in association with Mr. A. 0. Goodwin,
who also had been employed in the navy yard, and they have conducted the
business very successfully.  His political affiliations are with the Republican
party, but he sometimes votes independently as occasion seems to demand.
He belongs to the Masonic order, in which he has advanced as far as the
Commandery, and is also a member of the Mystic Shrine and the Order of
Red Men.
   Mr. Hatch was married, January 26, 1910, to Annie E. Rounds, who was
born in Bartlett, N. H., a daughter of Wallace C. Rounds.  He and his wife
are the parents of a daughter, Carolyn T.  The family attend the Baptist
church.