Los Angeles County
Biographies
WILLIAM M. HIATT
HIATT, WILLIAM M., Attorney,
Los Angeles, California, was born at Lynnville, Iowa, March 24, 1868,
the son of John C. and Esther (Macy) Hiatt. He has been twice married. His
first wife was Clara Meredith, whom he married at Oskaloosa, Iowa,
August 4, 1903. They had one child, John Meredith Hiatt. She died
soon after his birth. He married Winifred M. Nauerth
at Los Angeles, November 10, 1910.
Mr. Hiatt attended the high school of his native town and
Penn College at Oskaloosa, Iowa. He taught school in Iowa, and later in the
Island of Jamaica, where his parents were missionary superintendents for the
Society of Friends.
He went to Whittier, California, in 1887. There, with his
father, he founded the Whittier Graphic, the first newspaper printed in the
town. After a year they sold out and started a newspaper at Newberg, Oregon.
This they sold out after another year and returned to Whittier.
He entered the law offices of Henry C. Dillon, District
Attorney of Los Angeles County, in 1892, and read law. He was admitted to the
bar by the Supreme Court of California, April 4, 1893. He began his
practice in Whittier and was chosen attorney for the incorporation of the City
of Whittier, and was its first City Attorney. Early in the year 1901 he became
attorney for the Title Insurance and Trust Company of Los Angeles. This place
he resigned in 1904 to take care of his private practice in the firm of Hiatt
& Selby of Los Angeles.
Mr. Hiatt invested heavily in Whittier oil land, and in
Pasadena and Los Angeles property. He lives on a forty-acre orange and walnut
grove hear Rivera, California.
He is a member of many legal associations, of the
Jonathan and Union League clubs of Los Angeles, and of the Hillside club of
Whittier.
Transcribed by Marie Hassard
12 May 2011.
Source: Press
Reference Library, Western Edition Notables of the West, Vol. I, Page 652,
International News Service, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Boston,
Atlanta. 1913.
© 2011 Marie Hassard.
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