Born: 1870
Died: May 29th, 1910
Married: Mayola Hamilton Derby
Children: Seven children, including Catherine E. Hatch Dobson of Independence, Missouri, who was 96 in 1999.
John Henry Hatch, of Bloomingdale, was a contractor and builder who built many homes and camps in the Adirondacks, including the Mark Twain Camp on Lower Saranac Lake. He was also a volunteer fireman, shown in the Adirondack Daily Enterprise's "Picture from the Past" on April 10, 1999. In a letter to the editor on April 28, his daughter Catherine identified him as "the man in the front row in the gray suit." Since the caption on the photo says that most of the men had No. 1 on their hats, they were probably members of the first fire company in the village. He is buried in the Pine Ridge Cemetery.
Plattsburgh Republican, June 11, 1910
DEATH OF J. M . HATCH.
John Henry Hatch, a well known contractor of Saranac Lake, died Sunday, May 29th, at his home in that place of a stroke of apoplexy. He was born in Wilmington in 1870 and was the son of Francis Hatch now of Saranac Lake. He leaves a widow, formerly Miss Mayola Hamilton Derby, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George M. Derby, now of Malone, formerly of Bloomingdale.
Mr. Hatch built many of the fine camps on Lower Saranac and other lakes of the Adirondacks.
