orn in 1848 at Naples, Ontario County, N. Y., A. W. Hatch lived in the Empire State until 1860, and in Illinois from that time until he came to California in 1890, and, after a brief residence in San Bernardino, to Redlands. At the beginning of his business career, Mr. Hatch traveled in Illinois for Fairbanks & Co. He afterwards learned the carpenter's trade and has also followed farming east and west. In Redlands he has worked at his trade, has superintended an orange ranch of ten acres and has cared for some of the largest apiaries in this vicinity, owning one within the city limits of Redlands, one in the San Timoteo Canyon, and two in Riverside County. Combined, they produce about thirty tons of honey a year. Mr. Hatch has been twice married. His first wife was Miss M. E. Grimes, of Pike County, Ill. His second wife, with whom he is now living, was Miss Effie Dodge, a native of Illinois, whom he married and brought to California in 1888. He has four children, three daughters and a son, living in Redlands.

(Source: Illustrated Redlands, 1897, p. 18.)