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HERSCHEL HARRISON HATCH
Lawyer; born, Morrisville, N.Y., Feb. 17, 1837;
son of Juluis Wells and Harriet (Bicknell) Hatch; educated in academy in New York; studied law at Hamilton College Law School, Clinton, N.Y., under Professor Theodore W. Dwight, graduating, LL.B., Dec. 1857;
married at Morrisville, N.Y., June 21, 1864, Miss Eliza E. Haughton. Began practice at Morrisville, Feb. 1858; removed to Bay City, Mich., 1863; member of firm of Marston & Hatch, Bay City, 1863-74, Hatch & Cooley, Bay City, for more than twenty years; has practiced in Detroit since 1895. Member Board of Education, Bay City, for many years; member first Common Council, Bay City, 1865; judge of probate, Bay County; member Constitutional Commission of Michigan, 1873; member commission to revise tax laws, 1882; member of Congress, 1883-85. Member Detroit and Michigan State Bar associations. Office: 602 Hammond Bldg. Residence: 52 Lothrop Av
Source: The Book of Detroiters Edited by Albert Nelson Marquis 1908
Buried at Elm Lawn Cemetery - Bay City MI
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Herschel Harrison Hatch (February 17, 1837 - November 30, 1920) was a politician from the U.S. state of Michigan.
Hatch was born in Morrisville, New York, where he attended the common schools. He graduated from Hamilton College Law School in Clinton, New York in 1857. He was admitted to the bar and practiced in Morrisville, 1858-1863. Hatch moved to Bay City, Michigan, where he was elected alderman of Bay City at its first organization in 1865. He was judge of probate of Bay County, 1868-1872, a member of the constitutional commission of Michigan in 1873, and a member of the tax commission in 1881.
He was a descendant of John Lothropp (also Lothrop or Lathrop, born Etton, Yorkshire, 1584; died 1653) was an English Anglican clergyman, who became a Congregationalist minister and emigrant to New England. He was the founder of Barnstable, Massachusetts.
His cousin, Jethro A. Hatch, was the first physician in Kentland, Indiana and a Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Indiana's 10th congressional district.
Hatch was elected as a Republican to the 48th United States Congress, becoming the first to represent Michigan's 10th congressional district, and served from March 4, 1883 to March 3, 1885 in the U.S. House. Hatch declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1884 and resumed the practice of law.
Herschel H. Hatch moved to Detroit in 1895 and practiced law until 1910, when he retired. After ten years of retirement, he died in Detroit at the age of eighty-seven and is interred in Elm Lawn Cemetery of Bay City.
