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Canterbury Theodore "Barry" Hatten was born August 24, 1917, in Indiana, and grew up in Alaska, where his missionary parents ran an orphanage. Despite a childhood case of tuberculosis of the bone in one leg that prevented him from enlisting in World War II, he was a longshoreman in Alaska and San Francisco and worked on the railroad in Alaska. He studied at DePauw University in Indiana and the University of Washington, and practiced union, civil rights, and criminal law for 50 years before retirement. Barry Hatten died on August 17, 2008, aged 90. He longshored and worked on the railroad in Alaska in spite of the bad leg. After he received his law degree, he practiced union, civil rights, criminal and poor people's law. During the McCarthy loyalty hearings he defended professors being fired by the University of Washington. His brother-in-law Ralph Gundlach was one of them. He longshored in San Francisco during WWII and later in the fifties. [wsba.org] Barry was married first to Jean Gundlach; then to Louise Seifert with whom he had two sons, John Barry and Charles Theodore; then to Mary Telford Gibson with whom he lived more than forty years. [Island Sounds 2008]