Los
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Biographies
JEREMIAH LEWIS HATTERY
A resident of Southern California
for more than four and a half decades, Jeremiah Lewis Hattery lived retired for
some years at 361 Grand Avenue, Long Beach, in the enjoyment of a competence
accumulated by his industry and careful management in former years. He was a Union veteran and a member of the
rapidly diminishing Grand Army of the Republic.
Of English origin, the Hattery family was founded in this country at an
early period in American history, settlement being made in the colony of
Virginia. Ephraim Hattery, the
grandfather of Jeremiah L., was a native of the Old Dominion, born in the home
established by his father on immigrating to the New World. Subsequently members of the family settled in
Ohio and it was in Tuscarawas County, that state, that John Hattery, the father
of Jeremiah L. Hattery, was born. John
Hattery acquired skill as a carpenter and millwright and following his removal
to Stark County, Ohio, became a contractor of more than local repute. He established a large business, erecting
many residences, stores and public buildings.
The large flour mills in Orrville, Wayne County, Ohio, stand as an
excellent example of his ability as a millwright. He married Mary Baumgardner,
who was of German extraction.
The son, Jeremiah L. Hattery, was
born in Massillon, Stark County, Ohio, September 11, 1845, and acquired his
education in rural schools of Wayne County, that state. Influenced by his father’s activities, he
decided to become a carpenter and machinist and qualified for those occupations
at Canton, Ohio. In the spring of 1864,
before attaining the age of twenty, he offered his aid in defense of the Union
and was accepted, becoming a member of Company E, One hundred
Sixty-ninth Regiment of Ohio Volunteer Infantry, commanded by Colonel William
Haines, and served in the Army of the Potomac under General Grant.
At the close of the Civil War Mr.
Hattery received an honorable discharge and returned to his native county. Soon afterward he entered the employ of C.
Altman & Company, manufacturers of agricultural implements, and was a
machinist in their factory for five years.
Coming to California in 1887, he located at San Bernardino and as a
carpenter and builder was closely and prominently identified with construction
work there for seven years. He
discontinued the business in 1894 and invested a portion of his capital in land
in East Highlands, purchasing a tract of forty acres. Ten acres of this were devoted to the
production of oranges and the remaining thirty to the growing of hay and grain. Abundant crops rewarded his intelligently
directed efforts and with the passing years he added modern buildings and other
improvements to his place converting it into one of the valuable ranches of San
Bernardino County. He remained on the
property until 1891, when he removed to San Bernardino and later to Los Angeles
County, taking up his abode in Long Beach.
Here he spent the evening of life and had reached the venerable age of
eighty-six years at the time of his death, January 21, 1932.
In 1866 Mr. Hattery was married to
Miss Mary E. Barnhardt, who was also born in Ohio and had followed the
profession of teaching before her marriage.
They became the parents of five children: Lewis O., who lives on the ranch at East
Highlands; Henrietta, the widow of Howard Melton; Lillian M., deceased; Bessie
E., who was principal of one of the San Bernardino schools and resides with her
mother in Long Beach; and Rollin E., who is an agriculturist of East Highlands.
Mr. Hattery was a member of Valley
Lodge, No. 27, K. P.; a past commander of W. R. Cornman
Post, No. 57, G. A. R., and also belonged to the Southern California Veterans
Association of the Grand Army of the Republic.
Mrs. Hattery is actively interested in the work of the Southern
California Veterans Association and is an ex-president of the woman’s auxiliary
of that body. She is patriotic and
public-spirited and highly esteemed by reason of her commendable traits of
character and genuine worth.
Transcribed by
V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: California of the South
Vol. III, by John Steven McGroarty, Pages 419-421, Clarke Publ.,
Chicago, Los Angeles, Indianapolis. 1933.
© 2012 V. Gerald Iaquinta.
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