Person:Junius Hatch (1)

Obituary Record of Graduates of Amherst College^[7]

Class of 1849

JUNIUS LORING HATCH, the son of Roger C. and Hannah (Fay) Hatch, was born in Hopkinton, N.H., May 1, 1825, and was fitted for college at Kimball Union Academy.

The first year after graduation he was a member of Union Theological Seminary, and the next year of Yale Divinity School.

He was ordained at Gloucester, Mass., Jan. 26, 1854, and was pastor of the Congregational church there until 1856. He was acting pastor at Brooklyn, N.Y., for a short time, at Hingham, Mass., 1856-1858, at Dighton, Mansfield, and Westboro, Mass., and Concord, N.H., from 1860 to 1865. He was a teacher in Brooklyn, N.Y., and in New York City, 1858-1859, agent of Hope Life Insurance Co., New York City, 1870-1871, editor of Golden Rule, Boston, Mass., 1872, teach in Santa Clara, Cal., 1874-1876, principal of High School in Colma, Cal., 1876-1880.

From 1880 to 1890 he held a clerical position in the custom House in San Francisco, Cal. From 1890 to 1894 he was commissioner of immigration. on account of the failure of his health, he then retired from active life, although for a time he-edited the religious press column of the San Francisco Chronicle. His residence was for some years at San José and afterward at Oakland, Cal. He died of paralysis at Fruitvale, Cal., Jan. 26, 1903.

Mr. Hatch was married in October, 1856, to Lucy W., daughter of Capt. Addison Plummer, of Gloucester, Mass., who died Oct. 21, 1876. Of four children, three survive their father.

1. ↑ New Hampshire, United States. New Hampshire Birth Records, Early to 1900. (New Hampshire Division of Vital Records Administration)
   [1].

   Child's Name: Junius Lorrin Hatch
   Date of Birth: May 1st 1825
   Place of Birth: Hopkinton
   Father: Roger C. Hatch
   Mother: Hannah
   Clerk of: Hopkinton

2. ↑ San Francisco County (California). Department of Public Health. Death records, 1865-1904. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1975)
   [2].

   Mortuary Record of the City and County of San Francisco, Book Q
   No.: 5360
   Name: Hatch Junius Loring
   Sex: M
   Age: 77 y. 8 m. 25 d. [birth calculates to about 1 May 1825]
   Color: W
   Occupation: Minister
   Place of Birth: New Hampshire
   Condition: Widowed
   Place of Death: Oakland Cal
   Date of Death 1903 Jan 26
   Cause: Apoplexy
   Cemetery: Laurel Hill

3.   Essex, Massachusetts, United States. 1855 Massachusetts State Census
   left side, line 11.
4.   Bristol, Massachusetts, United States. 1870 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration Publication M593)
   line 26.
5.   San Francisco, California, United States. 1880 U.S. Census Population Schedule
   line 3.
6.   Alameda, California, United States. 1900 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration Publication T623)
   line 40.
7. ↑ ^7.0 7.1 Obituary Record of Graduates of Amherst College. (Henry M. McCloud, Printer)
   p. 14.