UUS_mss070.xml Guide to the Hezekiah E. Hatch correspondence 1880-1899 Hatch (Hezekiah E.) correspondence 1880-1899 Finding aid created by Special Collections and Archives. Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) grant, 2007-2008 Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections & Archives ©2008
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This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2025-03-06. Finding guide is in English in Latin script. Finding aid based on DACS (Describing Archives: A Content Standard, 2nd Edition). August 8, 2008. Template information was updated to reflect Utah Manuscript Association best practices. 2009 Template information was updated to reflect Archives West Best Practice Guidelines Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections & Archives Hezekiah E. Hatch correspondence UUS_COLL MSS 70 1 box .5 linear feet 1880-1899 Correspondence to Hezekiah E. Hatch, son of Lorenzo H., during Lorenzo's travels as a missionary and colonizer for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the American southwest on various topics. Collection materials are in English.

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The material in this collection was donated to USU Special Collections & Archives in 1984 by Eastman Hatch, Sr., a descendant of Lorenzo H. Hatch.

Hezekiah E. Hatch correspondence, 1880-1899. (COLL MSS 70). Utah State University. Special Collections and Archives department.

Lorenzo Hill Hatch was born January 4, 1826 in Lincoln, Vermont, the son of Hezekiah Hatch and Aldura Sumner Hatch. During Lorenzo's youth, he worked on the family farm in Lincoln. In 1840, the Hatch family joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and in 1842 the family moved to Nauvoo, Illinois. That same year Lorenzo's mother died and his father also died the following year.

In April 1844, Lorenzo was ordained into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' Quorum of the Seventy and called to serve as a missionary in Vermont. After serving as a missionary for a few months, Lorenzo was called to return to Nauvoo when Joseph Smith Jr., the leader of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, was assassinated in June 1844.

On February 3, 1845. Lorenzo married Hannah Fuller. Shortly thereafter the couple joined George Miller's Camp, a group of fellow Latter-day Saints who were migrating toward the Rocky Mountains. For the next six years Lorenzo worked to build bridges, make roads, aid other migrating Latter-day Saints, oversee the farming activity at Winter Quarters and operate a wagon shop at St. Joseph, Missouri. His wife died in 1847.

In 1851 Lorenzo settled in Lehi, Utah Territory and opened a grist mill with other local settlers. Shortly thereafter he was elected mayor of Lehi and served three terms in the Utah Legislature. In 1851 he married Sylvia Savonia Eastman. On November 11, 1854 he took a second wife, Catherine Karren (polygamy, or the practice of taking multiple wives, was a common practice among Latter-day Saint men during this time period). In 1856, he was called to serve as a missionary in England and labored there for two years. On January 2, 1860, he took third wife, Alice Hansen. Over the course of his life, these three wives combined bore him twenty-four children in total.

In 1863 Lorenzo was a called by his church to serve as a bishop in Franklin, Idaho, a calling that required him to move to the southern part of the Idaho Territory. He served in this capacity until 1872 when he was elected to serve as Franklin's first mayor and in the Idaho Legislature. In 1873 he was ordained by his church to the office of patriarch.

In 1875 he was again called to serve as a missionary, this time in parts of the Utah, New Mexico, and Arizona Territories, and in Mexico. During this time some of his family members traveled with him as he proselyted among various Native American Indian tribes, such as the Navajo and Apache. He continued as a missionary until 1901 when he returned to Utah and settled in Logan, Utah. Lorenzo remained in Logan until his death on April 20, 1910.

Source: Woodland, Blanch Hatch, "History of Lorenzo Hill Hatch, 1840-1910," family account, undated, 4 pages. (See USU Special Collections & Archives; Item Mss 44.)

This collection consists of Lorenzo Hill Hatch's outgoing correspondence to his son Hezekiah E. Hatch between the years of 1880 and 1899 with one letter from son John Hatch to his brother Hezekiah E. Hatch dated February 28, 1881 in Box 1 Folder 2. This collection contains over one-hundred letters written by Hatch while serving as a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to various western Native American Indian tribes of the American Southwest. Hatch's letters document his missionary labors among various Native American Indian tribes, his life as a missionary-itinerant in the American Southwest, living conditions, his family's status, financial difficulties, polygamy, his political and theological views, and the dialogue shared between a father and son. Hatch's correspondence has been arranged chronologically and the city or location where the letter was written has been listed. The materials in this collection have been encapsulated for preservation purposes.

Correspondence has been arranged chronologically.

Hezekiah Sumner Hatch Family PapersCOLL MSS 305.

Thatcher Brothers Banking Company PapersCOLL MSS 3.

 Mormon pioneers--Southwest, New--Correspondence. Frontier and pioneer life--Southwest, New. Mormonism (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) Outgoing correspondence of Lorenzo H. Hatch to H. E. Hatch, Woodruff, AZ 1880 January 26 1 1 Outgoing correspondence of Lorenzo H. Hatch to H. E. Hatch, Woodruff, AZ 1880 April 4 1 1 Outgoing correspondence of Lorenzo H. Hatch to H. E. Hatch, Woodruff, AZ 1881 January 30 1 2 Outgoing correspondence of John Hatch to his brother H. E. Hatch, Taylor, AZ 1881 February 28 1 2 Outgoing correspondence of Lorenzo H. Hatch to H. E. Hatch, Woodruff, AZ 1881 March 9 1 2 Outgoing correspondence of Lorenzo H. Hatch to H. E. Hatch, Woodruff, AZ 1881 June 19 1 2 Outgoing correspondence of Lorenzo H. Hatch to H. E. Hatch, Taylor, AZ 1881 July 3 1 2 Outgoing correspondence of Lorenzo H. Hatch to H. E. Hatch, Corderoy, AZ 1881 December 12 1 2 Outgoing correspondence of Lorenzo H. Hatch to H. E. Hatch, Corderoy, AZ 1881 December 13 1 2 Outgoing correspondence of Lorenzo H. Hatch to H. E. Hatch, Taylor, AZ 1882 January 22 1 3 Outgoing correspondence of Lorenzo H. Hatch to H. E. Hatch, Taylor, AZ 1882 February 19 1 3 Outgoing correspondence of Lorenzo H. Hatch to H. E. Hatch, Franklin, ID 1883 March 28 1 4 Outgoing correspondence of Lorenzo H. Hatch to H. E. Hatch, Franklin, ID 1883 May 12 1 4 Outgoing correspondence of Lorenzo H. Hatch to H. E. Hatch, Franklin, ID 1883 June 2 1 4 Outgoing correspondence of Lorenzo H. Hatch to H. E. Hatch, Franklin, ID 1883 June 18 1 4 Outgoing correspondence of Lorenzo H. Hatch to H. E. Hatch, Franklin, ID 1883 July 2 1 4 Outgoing correspondence of Lorenzo H. Hatch to H. E. Hatch, Hyde Park, UT 1883 July 7 1 4 Outgoing correspondence of Lorenzo H. Hatch to H. E. Hatch, Taylor, AZ 1883 July 30 1 4 Outgoing correspondence of Lorenzo H. Hatch to H. E. Hatch, Taylor, AZ 1883 September 9 1 4 Outgoing correspondence of Lorenzo H. Hatch to H. E. Hatch, Woodruff, AZ 1883 November 27 1 4 Outgoing correspondence of Lorenzo H. Hatch to H. E. Hatch, Woodruff, AZ 1883 November 29 1 4 Outgoing correspondence of Lorenzo H. Hatch to H. E. Hatch, Woodruff, AZ 1883 December 20 1 4 Outgoing correspondence of Lorenzo H. Hatch to H. E. Hatch, Taylor, AZ 1884 January 29 1 5 Outgoing correspondence of Lorenzo H. Hatch to H. E. Hatch, Taylor, AZ 1884 April 19 1 5 Outgoing correspondence of Lorenzo H. Hatch to H. E. Hatch, Woodruff, AZ 1884 June 2 1 5 Outgoing correspondence of Lorenzo H. Hatch to H. E. Hatch, Woodruff, AZ 1884 June 14 1 5 Outgoing correspondence of Lorenzo H. Hatch to H. E. Hatch, Taylor, AZ 1884 July 7 1 5 Outgoing correspondence of Lorenzo H. Hatch to H. E. Hatch, Woodruff, AZ 1884 July 30 1 5 Outgoing correspondence of Lorenzo H. Hatch to H. E. Hatch, Taylor, AZ 1884 September 7 1 5 Outgoing correspondence of Lorenzo H. Hatch to H. E. Hatch, Franklin, ID 1884 November 12 1 5 Outgoing correspondence of Lorenzo H. Hatch to H. E. Hatch, La Junta (?) 1884 November 20 1 5 Outgoing correspondence of Lorenzo H. Hatch to H. E. Hatch, La Junta (?) 1884 December 24 1 5 Outgoing correspondence of Lorenzo H. Hatch to H. E. Hatch, Franklin, ID 1885 July 16 1 6 Outgoing correspondence of Lorenzo H. Hatch to H. E. Hatch, Lehi City, UT 1885 July 23 1 6 Outgoing correspondence of Lorenzo H. Hatch to H. E. Hatch, Woodruff, AZ 1885 August 4 1 6 Outgoing correspondence of Lorenzo H. Hatch to H. E. Hatch, Woodruff, AZ 1885 September 4 1 6 Outgoing correspondence of Lorenzo H. Hatch to H. E. Hatch, Woodruff, AZ 1885 September 8 1 6 Outgoing correspondence of Lorenzo H. Hatch to H. E. Hatch, Taylor, AZ 1885 September 15 1 6 Outgoing correspondence of Lorenzo H. Hatch to H. E. Hatch, Snowflake, AZ 1885 September 26 1 6 Outgoing correspondence of Lorenzo H. Hatch to H. E. Hatch, Lehi City, UT 1885 October 29 1 6 Outgoing correspondence of Lorenzo H. Hatch to H. E. Hatch, Hyde Park, UT 1885 November 6 1 6 Outgoing correspondence of Lorenzo H. Hatch to H. E. Hatch, Franklin, ID 1885 December 8 1 6 Outgoing correspondence of Lorenzo H. Hatch to H. E. Hatch, Franklin, ID 1885 December 12 1 6 Outgoing correspondence of Lorenzo H. Hatch to H. E. Hatch, Taylor, AZ 1886 January 28 1 7 Outgoing correspondence of Lorenzo H. Hatch to H. E. Hatch, Taylor, AZ 1886 January 29 1 7 Outgoing correspondence of Lorenzo H. Hatch to H. E. Hatch, Taylor, AZ 1886 February 11 1 7 Outgoing correspondence of Lorenzo H. Hatch to H. E. Hatch, Apache Co., AZ 1886 March 7 1 7 Outgoing correspondence of Lorenzo H. Hatch to H. E. Hatch, Hyde Park, UT 1886 January 26 1 7 Outgoing correspondence of Lorenzo H. Hatch to H. E. Hatch, Coveville, UT 1886 May 14 1 7 Outgoing correspondence of Lorenzo H. Hatch to H. E. Hatch, Provo, UT 1886 May 31 1 7 Outgoing correspondence of Lorenzo H. Hatch to H. E. Hatch, Franklin, ID 1886 June 12 1 7 Outgoing correspondence of Lorenzo H. Hatch to H. E. Hatch, Franklin, ID 1886 June 16 1 7 Outgoing correspondence of Lorenzo H. Hatch to H. E. Hatch, Coveville, UT 1886 August 12 1 7 Outgoing correspondence of Lorenzo H. Hatch to H. E. Hatch, Franklin, ID 1886 August [?] 1 7 Outgoing correspondence of Lorenzo H. Hatch to H. E. Hatch, Franklin, ID 1886 August 25 1 7 Outgoing correspondence of Lorenzo H. Hatch to H. E. Hatch, Coveville, UT 1886 September 7 1 7 Outgoing correspondence of Lorenzo H. Hatch to H. E. Hatch, Coveville, UT 1886 September 19 1 7 Outgoing correspondence of Lorenzo H. Hatch to H. E. Hatch, Franklin, ID 1886 October 1 1 7 Outgoing correspondence of Lorenzo H. Hatch to H. E. Hatch, Franklin, ID 1886 October 26 1 7 Outgoing correspondence of Lorenzo H. Hatch to H. E. Hatch, Coveville, UT 1886 November 4 1 7 Outgoing correspondence of Lorenzo H. Hatch to H. E. Hatch, Coveville, UT 1886 November 11 1 7 Outgoing correspondence of Lorenzo H. Hatch to H. E. Hatch, Franklin, ID 1886 November 23 1 7 Outgoing correspondence of Lorenzo H. Hatch to H. E. Hatch, Franklin, ID 1886 December 3 1 7 Outgoing correspondence of Lorenzo H. Hatch to H. E. Hatch, Franklin, ID 1886 December 8 1 7 Outgoing correspondence of Lorenzo H. Hatch to H. E. Hatch, Coveville, UT 1886 December 22 1 7 Outgoing correspondence of Lorenzo H. Hatch to H. E. Hatch, Franklin, ID 1886 December 24 1 7 Outgoing correspondence of Lorenzo H. Hatch to H. E. Hatch, Franklin, ID 1886 December 24 1 7 Outgoing correspondence of Lorenzo H. Hatch to H. E. Hatch, Pueblo, CO 1886 December 26 1 7 Outgoing correspondence of Lorenzo H. Hatch to H. E. Hatch, Taylor, AZ 1887 December 5 1 8 Outgoing correspondence of Lorenzo H. Hatch to H. E. Hatch, Taylor, AZ 1888 January 1 1 9 Outgoing correspondence of Lorenzo H. Hatch to H. E. Hatch, Taylor, AZ 1888 February 7 1 9 Outgoing correspondence of Lorenzo H. Hatch to H. E. Hatch, Taylor, AZ 1888 March 24 1 9 Outgoing correspondence of Lorenzo H. Hatch to H. E. Hatch, Taylor, AZ 1888 April 30 1 9 Outgoing correspondence of Lorenzo H. Hatch to H. E. Hatch, Taylor, AZ 1888 May 18 1 9 Outgoing correspondence of Lorenzo H. Hatch to H. E. Hatch, Woodruff, AZ 1888 August 1 1 9 Outgoing correspondence of Lorenzo H. Hatch to H. E. Hatch, Woodruff, AZ 1888 August 5 1 9 Outgoing correspondence of Lorenzo H. Hatch to H. E. Hatch, Taylor, AZ 1888 September 9 1 9 Outgoing correspondence of Lorenzo H. Hatch to H. E. Hatch, Taylor, AZ Undated 1 9 Outgoing correspondence of Lorenzo H. Hatch to H. E. Hatch, Woodruff, AZ 1888 November 11 1 9 Outgoing correspondence of Lorenzo H. Hatch to H. E. Hatch, Franklin, ID 1889 August 27 1 10 Outgoing correspondence of Lorenzo H. Hatch to H. E. Hatch, Franklin, ID 1889 November 13 1 10 Outgoing correspondence of Lorenzo H. Hatch to H. E. Hatch, Woodruff, AZ 1890 January 19 1 11 Outgoing correspondence of Lorenzo H. Hatch to H. E. Hatch, Woodruff, AZ 1890 May 1 1 11 Outgoing correspondence of Lorenzo H. Hatch to H. E. Hatch, Woodruff, AZ 1890 November 16 1 11 Outgoing correspondence of Lorenzo H. Hatch to H. E. Hatch, Woodruff, AZ 1891 April 19 1 12 Outgoing correspondence of Lorenzo H. Hatch to H. E. Hatch, Woodruff, AZ 1894 August 5 1 13 Outgoing correspondence of Lorenzo H. Hatch to H. E. Hatch, Snowflake, AZ 1894 August 27 1 13 Outgoing correspondence of Lorenzo H. Hatch to H. E. Hatch, Woodruff, AZ 1895 October 11 1 14 Outgoing correspondence of Lorenzo H. Hatch to H. E. Hatch, Woodruff, AZ 1895 November 7 1 14 Outgoing correspondence of Lorenzo H. Hatch to H. E. Hatch, Woodruff, AZ 1895 December 5 1 14 Outgoing correspondence of Lorenzo H. Hatch to H. E. Hatch, Woodruff, AZ 1896 June 7 1 15 Outgoing correspondence of Lorenzo H. Hatch to H. E. Hatch, Woodruff, AZ 1896 July 28 1 15 Outgoing correspondence of Lorenzo H. Hatch to H. E. Hatch, Woodruff, AZ 1896 October 31 1 15 Outgoing correspondence of Lorenzo H. Hatch to H. E. Hatch, Woodruff, AZ 1896 December 26 1 15 Outgoing correspondence of Lorenzo H. Hatch to H. E. Hatch, Woodruff, AZ 1896 December 27 1 15 Outgoing correspondence of Lorenzo H. Hatch to H. E. Hatch, Salt Lake City 1899 July 19 1 16 Outgoing correspondence of Lorenzo H. Hatch to H. E. Hatch, Woodruff, AZ 1899 August 22 1 16 Outgoing correspondence of Lorenzo H. Hatch to H. E. Hatch, Woodruff, AZ 1899 September 10 1 16 Outgoing correspondence of Lorenzo H. Hatch to H. E. Hatch, Woodruff, AZ 1899 October 3 1 16 Outgoing correspondence of Lorenzo H. Hatch to H. E. Hatch, Woodruff, AZ 1899 October 25 1 16 Outgoing correspondence of Lorenzo H. Hatch to H. E. Hatch, Taylor, AZ Undated 1 17 Family Group Sheet Undated 1 18