Yolo County
Biographies
CLINTON C. HATCHER
Clinton
C. Hatcher, an enterprising citizen of Yolo County, is rendering excellent
service as manager of the Yolo Fliers Club of Woodland. He was born on the Cook ranch, near Yolo, on the
19th of August, 1884, and is a son of George P. and Hattie R. (Cook)
Hatcher, the former a native of Yolo County, and the latter of Nova
Scotia. The paternal grandfather,
William Hatcher, who was numbered among the pioneers of the Sacramento valley,
was born in Sevier County, Tennessee, February 6, 1828, and when he was six
years of accompanied his parents on their removal to Missouri, where he was
reared and educated and at eighteen years of age taught school. In the following year he served in the Mexican
War. In 1852, with his wife and son
Columbus W., he started across the plains with an ox team and covered wagon for
California. He located in Yolo County
September 5, 1853, and bought a part of the Knight land grant, on which he
established his permanent home, farming there for many years. On March 27, 1849, in Linn County, Missouri,
Mr. Hatcher was united in marriage to Miss Sarah F. Mullins, who was born in
Howard County, Missouri, in 1833. Mr.
Hatcher died in 1913 and his wife passed away in 1927.
George
P. Hatcher attended the district schools of his home neighborhood and then took
a commercial course in the Woodland Business College. He engaged in the grocery business in
Woodland and later opened a general merchandise store in Yolo. He is now farming on the old home ranch. On his home ranch he has developed a fine
water system, one of the best in the valley.
He has two eight-inch wells, seventy-five feet deep, with a capacity of
two thousand gallons a minute, the pumps being operated by a three hundred
horse-power motor. To George P. and
Hattie R. Hatcher were born three children, Clinton C., Earl K. and Mrs. E. L. Pockman. Clinton C.
Hatcher received his education in the district school and Pierce’s Business
College, at Woodland, after which he went to work on his father’s farm. In 1927 he was appointed manager of the Yolo
Fliers Club, which position he is still filling in a very capable and
satisfactory manner. This organization,
which had its inception eleven years ago, has one hundred and twenty-five
members. It bought one hundred and
ninety acres of well situated land, on which there is an eighteen hole golf course and an up-to-date flying field. This place was dedicated as a memorial to the
World War soldiers who went out from Yolo County and were killed in the
service.
On
November 5, 1906, Mr. Hatcher was united in marriage to Miss Catherine B.
Ogden, who was born in Colusa County, this state. To them have been born four
children, namely: Mrs. Roma Moe; Daryl,
who is serving in the United States Navy; Pierce, who is a plumber; and Junior,
who is in school. Mr. Hatcher is
well adapted to the responsible position which he is filling and is not only
held in high regard by the members of the Fliers Club, but commands the respect
of all who know him.
Transcribed by
Gerald Iaquinta.
Source:
Wooldridge, J.W.Major History of Sacramento Valley
California, Vol. 2 Pages 446-447. Pioneer Historical
Publishing Co. Chicago 1931.
© 2010 Gerald Iaquinta.
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