Edward Wingate Hatch (November 26, 1852 – June 1, 1924) was an American lawyer and judge from New York.
Life
Hatch was born on November 26, 1852, in Friendship, New York, the son of Captain Jeremiah Hatch and Lucy Ann Rigdon. During the American Civil War, his father became captain in the 130th New York Infantry Regiment and died of sickness in Suffolk, Virginia, in 1862. His maternal grandfather was Sidney Rigdon.[1]
Hatch attended the academy in Friendship until he was 16. He then spent the next four years working as a blacksmith and engaged in lumbering in Pennsylvania and Wyoming County. In 1872, he began working for Andrew J. Lorish, then postmaster of Attica and later county judge of Wyoming County, as a clerk in the post office. He also studied law under Lorish.
In 1874, he moved to Buffalo and studied law in the office Corlett & Tabor; Corlett later joined the New York Supreme Court while Tabor later served as New York Attorney General. When the law firm was dissolved in 1875, Hatch continued studying law with Corlett. He was admitted to the bar in 1876. He spent the next two years practicing law alone, and then he formed a partnership with Corlett. The partnership lasted until 1883, when Corlett became a judge. In 1884, he formed the law firm Box, Hatch & Norton with Porter Norton and H. W. Box. He was in the law firm until 1887, when he became a judge.[2]