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4  TEXT Date of Import: 14 Jan 2004


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The following was written sometime between 1870 to 1889...
Albert F. Hathaway,a leading farmer of Tingley Township, is a native
of Cattaragus County, New York.  Born January 30, 1837, a son of David &
Sarah (Hull) Hathaway, his father a native of Massachusetts and his
mother of Connecticut.  His father was a farmer in New York State and
also a lumberman in the Allegheny pineries.  Albert is the fifth of ten
children, seven of whom are living.  In 1841, the parents moved to Iowa
landing in Burlington July 4.  They settled on a farm inHenry Co. near
Mt. Pleasant, where they made ahome and lived there about 30 years and
again moved to Canaan Township, near Windfield and there lived wuntil the
death of the father in May 1881.  the mother is now living in Winfield,
IA.  Albert F. was married to Samantha Smith, January 1, 1861.  In June
1862, he started to the Rocky Mts. and returned to Afton Union Co.
November 2.In the spring of 1863 his wife died leaving him with one
daughter, Samantha.  he was amrried again December 17, 1863 to Mary E.
Hester, a native of Indiana, who came with her parents to Iowa when a
little girl.  Albert and familymoved to the southwest quarter of section
3, Tingley Township, Ringgold Co. and in the fall of 1870 to the place
where they are now living.  he has been successful, and now owns 320
acres of improved land.  Mr. & Mrs. Hathaway have 10 children--- Holis B.
born 1865, Aurilla E., Arden E., Albert E., Mary E., Sarah E., Wilbur F.,
Ida M., Helen S., & Lydia.
In politics Mr. Hathaway is a Greenbacker and was the only man in
Tingley Township that voted the anti-monopoly ticket at the Peter Cooper
run for President.