Allen Hiatt

As printed in 1882

ALLEN HIATT, farmer, P. O. Lumberton. The progress, growth, development and present prosperity of Clinton County are unquestionably due to the enterprise, energy and foresight of her pioneers, and few of this class are more kindly remembered in Union and Liberty Township than the Hiatt family, whose genealogy and history largely appear in the above sketch of Isaac Hiatt. Allen Hiatt was born December 15, 1814, in Union Township, Clinton Co., Ohio, where he spent his early life, and in fact giving his father the benefit of his time until twenty-seven years of age, when he entered upon the duty of life for himself. He settled on his present farm of 250 acres, in 1855, and now owns two other good farms in the county. He is well situated in life, and possesses all that is essential to a neat, comfortable and desirable home. He is a practical and successful farmer, believing in doing all things well, and is surrounded by a fair selection of stock and farm implements. His interest in the welfare of all public improvements has well spoken for itself, during his life in Clinton County. He remained in single state of life until October 12, 1854, when he united in marriage with Mrs. Susan B. (Folger) Johnston, who was born August 25, 1823, in Cincinnati,

Ohio, the then embryotic city and present metropolis of the Central States. To this union have been given four children, all now living. To Mrs. Hiatt and her first husband, James M. Johnston, were given three children, who were raised by her and Mr. Hiatt in Clinton County. One of her sons, Albert Johnston, in 1861 responded to the President’s call for troops and enlisted to defend our country, for which he fought until life was extinct. On December 31, 1861, while engaged in the battle of Stone River, he was reported wounded, but was never discovered. Mrs. Hiatt is a daughter of John W. and Emma (Swain) Folger, who were both natives of Nantucket Island, and were distantly related to the material ancestry of Benjamin Franklin. John W. and Emma came to Cincinnati, Ohio, in an early day, where they matured and married, and he for many years followed New Orleans trading, but about the middle of the present century he buried his wife and married his second companion, who with him subsequently removed to Hennepin, Ill., where he died, and the widow still survives at the age of fourscore years.

As printed in The history of Clinton County, Ohio (1882). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.