Résumé

Principal, John D. Hatch, Architect, San Francisco, CA, 1904, 1909-1937. Hatch had an office in Room #603 of San Francisco's Humboldt Bank Building in 1909. (See San Francisco, California, City Directory, 1909, p. 749.)In 1937, Hatch had an office at 251 Kearny Street in San Francisco. (See San Francisco, California, City Directory, 1937, p. 624.) The 1940 US Census indicated that Hatch was a 65-year-old architect who may have specialized in bank design. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation Year: 1940; Census Place: Berkeley, Alameda, California; Roll: m-t0627-00188; Page: 9B; Enumeration District: 1-104, accessed 04/02/2019.)

John Davis Hatch enlisted as a 2nd Lieutenant in the 9th Company, Coast Artillery, on 08/02/1917. He served in the US Army during World War I as a 1st Lieutenant. He returned home from Brest, France, to Hoboken, NJ, aboard the S.S. George Washington between 09/19/1919 and 10/02/1919. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation The National Archives at College Park; College Park, Maryland; Record Group Title: Records of the Office of the Quartermaster General, 1774-1985; Record Group Number: 92; Roll or Box Number: 106, accessed 04/02/2019.)

In 1941, the Oakland, California, City Directory, 1941, (p. 429), indicated that Hatch worked as a draftsman at that time.

John D. Hatch, US Army Corps of Engineers, San Francisco, CA, c. 1948. (See San Francisco, California, City Directory, 1948, p. 836.)

Professional Activities

Member, American Institute of Architects, c. 1918.

Hatch assisted in conducting architectural civil service examinations for the State of CA during the period 1924-1926. (See Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the Forty-Seventh Session of the Legislature of the State of California, Vol. V, [Sacramento: California State Printing Office, 1927], p. 37.)

College

A.B., Jurisprudence, Philosophy and History, University of California, Berkeley (UCB), College of Social Sciences, Berkeley, CA, c. 1899. According to the University of California, Berkeley, Blue and Gold Yearbook for 1899, (p. 125), Hatch was commissioned a 1st Lieutenant in the Battalion of University Cadets.

At the University of California, Hatch worked on the editorial staff of the Blue and Gold Yearbook in his junior year, was the Secretary of the Associated Students of the University of California his senior year, was the Vice-President of the Senior Class (1898), was an officer in the UCB Wheelmen, and was a member of the Boating Association, Tennis Association and Students' Congress.(See University of California, Berkeley, Blue and Gold Yearbook for 1898, p. 27.)

Relocation

Born in Montauk Point, NY, his parents' address was 278 Lexington Avenue in New York, NY, in 1875. (See Goulding´s New York City Directory for 1875-1876, p. 604.)

John Davis Hatch had moved to CA by at least 05/08/1896. In 1896, he was a University of California, Berkeley, student living at 1230 7th Avenue in East Oakland, CA. As of 08/04/1898, he lived in Oakland, at 918 10th Street, according to voter registration records. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation California State Library, California History Section; Great Registers, 1866-1898; Collection Number: 4 - 2A; CSL Roll Number: 5; FHL Roll Number: 976451, accessed 04/02/2019.) Two years later, he lived on Livermore Avenue in Livermore, CA. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation California State Library; Sacramento, California; Great Register of Voters, 1900-1968, accessed 04/02/2019.)

Hatch, his wife and two children made their residence at 805 Merchant Street in Oakland, CA, in 1910. At this time, the Hatch Family retained a servant, Mary Simas (born c. 1892 in CA), who, at age 18, had been divorced, according to the census. Her family was of Portguese descent. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation Year: 1910; Census Place: Oakland Ward 1, Alameda, California; Roll: T624_69; Page: 7A; Enumeration District: 0076; FHL microfilm: 1374082, accessed 04/02/2019.)

From at least 1904 through 1913, Hatch had an address in San Francisco, CA. He resided at 1062 Ellis Street in 1904. In 1912, it was at 977 Pine Street and, in 1913, 56 Pleasant Street. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation California State Library; Sacramento, California; Great Register of Voters, 1900-1968, accessed 04/02/2019.) He registered to serve in the CA National Guard on 03/16/1916 and lived again at 977 Pine Street. (See Ancestry.com, Source Information Ancestry.com. California, Military Registers, 1858-1923 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014, accessed 04/02/2019.)

Between 1908 and 1909, Hatch lived at 805 Arlington Avenue in Oakland. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation California State Library; Sacramento, California; Great Register of Voters, 1900-1968, accessed 04/02/2019 and San Francisco, California, City Directory, 1909, p. 749.)

After World War I in 1920, Hatch and his family lived in rented quarters in Pacific Grove, CA, at 120 Fountain Avenue. The 1920 US Census recorded his occupation to be "none." This could have been because he took a break from work after the war, or that he had been wounded and was recuperating. The US Census listed Gethel as the "head" of the family at this time, suggesting that John had been injured in the war.

Hatch and his wife lived at 2631 Hillegass Avenue in Berkeley, CA, from at least 1922 until 1955. (See Oakland, California, City Telephone Directory, 1955, p. 232.)The 1940 US Census recorded that Hatch and his wife lived at 2631 Hillegass Avenue in Berkeley. In that year, his daughter, Doris Hatch Munster lived at home with them, as did her two sons, Gregg (born c. 1928 in NY) and Lael (born c. 1929 in NY). Doris was a young widow at this time. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation Year: 1940; Census Place: Berkeley, Alameda, California; Roll: m-t0627-00188; Page: 9B; Enumeration District: 1-104, accessed 04/02/2019.)

Parents

His father was the architect John Davis Hatch III (born c. 1826), born in England, who became a US citizen on 07/28/1859. He lived in Yonkers, NY, at the time. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation National Archives and Records Administration; Washington, DC; Record Group Title: Records of District Courts of the United States, 1685-2009; Record Group Number: RG 21, accessed 04/02/2019.) He served as a Captain in the Union Army's 17th Regiment, New York State Militia, in 1863. Tax records of 1864 indicated that Hatch worked as both an architect and civil engineer. (See Ancestry.com, Source Information Ancestry.com. U.S. IRS Tax Assessment Lists, 1862-1918 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2008, accessed 04/02/2019.) In 1867, John Davis Hatch had an office at 112 Broadway, and lived in Yonkers, NY. (See Trow´s New York City Directory, 1867-1868, p. 448.) His office was located at 111 Broadway in 1872 and and 229 Broadway in 1876. (See New York, New York, City Directory, 1872, p. 515 and New York, New York, City Directory, 1876, p. 565.) By 1876, Davis had moved back into Manhattan, living at 678 Lexington Avenue.

One of the elder John Davis Hatch's most prominent works was the Second Empire Athenaeum at St. Johnsbury, VT (1868-1871). (See Peggy Pearl, A Brief History of St. Johnsbury, [Charleston, SC: History Press, 2009], n.p.) He was a part of the early membership of the American Institute of Architects in New York. (See Glenn Brown, "The American Institute of Architects, 1857-1907," American Institute of Architects Quarterly Bulletin, vol. VIII, no. 1, 04/1907, p. 7 and Richard N. Swett, Leadership by Design: Creating an Architecture of Trust, [Atlanta: Greenway COmmunications, LLC, 2005], p. 32.)

His mother's maiden name was Birdsell. His parents may have married in 1871. (See Ancestry.com, Source Information Ancestry.com. New York City, Compiled Marriage Index, 1600s-1800s [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005, , accessed 04/02/2019.)

Spouse

He married Gethel Gregg (born 06/21/1881 in AZ-d. 12/25/1974 in Santa Clara County, CA). Her father, Virgil Augustus Gregg (1844-1899), was from IA, her mother, Adelia Mills, (c. 1847-1930), OH. Her parents married in Henry County, IA, on 09/15/1869. (See Ancestry.com, Source Information Ancestry.com. Iowa, Select Marriages Index, 1758-1996 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014, accessed 04/02/2019.)

In 1933, Gethel sailed aboard the S.S. American Trader from London, England to New York, NY, between 04/29/1933 and 05/08/1933. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation Year: 1933; Arrival: New York, New York; Microfilm Serial: T715, 1897-1957; Microfilm Roll: Roll 5326; Line: 7; Page Number: 211, accessed 04/02/2019.)

Children

He and Gethel had three children, a son, John D. Hatch, Jr., (born 06/14/1907 in San Francisco, CA-d. 05/30/1996 in Santa Fe, NM) and two daughters, Doris Hatch Munster, (born c. 1906 in CA) and Mary M. Hatch (born c. 1912 in CA).

John Davis Hatch, Jr., would become a noted art historian and collector, who worked at four significant organizations: the Seattle Fine Arts Society (1928-1931), Isabella Stewart Gardener Museum in Boston, MA (1932-1940), Albany Institute of History and Art in Albany, NY, (1940-1948) and the Norfolk Museum of Arts and Sciences in Norfolk, VA, (1950-1959). His papers were deposited in the Smithsonian Institution. (See Smithsonian Institution.edu, "John Davis Hatch Papers, 1790-1995," accessed 04/02/2019.)

Doris married Hilmar Munster (born c. 1904-d. 12/21/1939 in Alameda County, CA) on 11/20/1924 in Monroe County, NY. (See Ancestry.com, Source Information Ancestry.com. New York, County Marriage Records, 1847-1849, 1907-1936 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2016, accessed 04/02/2019.)

Biographical Notes

As per 1898 CA voter records, Hatch had a scar on the little finger of his left hand. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation California State Library, California History Section; Great Registers, 1866-1898; Collection Number: 4 - 2A; CSL Roll Number: 5; FHL Roll Number: 976451, accessed 04/02/2019.)

At age 43, Hatch stood 5-feet, 8-inches tall. (See Ancestry.com, Source Information Ancestry.com. California, Military Registers, 1858-1923 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014, accessed 04/02/2019.)

He voted with the Republicans in 1912, but was a registered Democrat a year later. Voter registration documents from 1934, 1936, 1940, 1942, and 1944 indicated that Hatch and his wife voted Republican in these elections. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation California State Library; Sacramento, California; Great Register of Voters, 1900-1968, accessed 04/02/2019.)

SSN: 556033025.