Greene County PA Archives Biographies.....Hathaway, J. W. May 19, 1821 - ????
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Source: Biographical History of Greene County, Nelson, Rishforth, and Co, Chicago, 1888
Author: Samuel P. Bates

          J W Hathaway, deceased, who was a merchant in 
Carmicheals for many years, was born in Jefferson Township, 
this county, May 19, 1821, and was a son of Samuel Hathaway 
and Elizabeth Estel Hathaway. His mother was born in New 
Jersey and his father in Pennsylvania, and they were of 
English an Dutch descent. when Mr Hathaway was only one year 
old his father died, and he was reared by his grandfather, 
Matthias Estel, who sent him to school and induced him to 
learn a trade. He chose the chair maker's trade, served a 
regular apprenticeship, and worked at the business for a 
time in Newtown. There he began business as a clerk in a 
store at the age of sixteen. At nineteen years of age he 
went to Carmichaels as clerk. He was for many years junior 
member in the firm of Carson & Hathaway, merchants; 
afterwards buying his partner's interest he became sole 
owner of the large merchandising establishment there. He was 
an energetic, careful and thrifty manager of business, 
always exercising the keenest tact in his venture and 
investments, yet conducting the same with a motive of 
honesty and fair dealing toward all, bearing the respect of 
everybody.
  
          Years ago, when Carmichaels was the business 
center of Greene County, Mr Hathaway added to a continued 
large retail trade, did considerable business at wholesale. 
He also dealt quite extensively in stock and real estate, 
and at the time of his death was the owner of 550 acres of 
valuable land.
  
          He was united in marriage January 1, 1846, with 
Miss Ary Anderson, daughter of William Anderson and Keziah 
Wiley Anderson, who were of Scotch Irish descent. Her father 
was a millwright, and she had two brothers in the War of 
1812. To Mr and Mrs Hathaway a family of ten children were 
born, six of whom, together with Mrs Hathaway, survive the 
deceased. The children are: Charles Hathaway; Samuel 
Hathaway; William Hathaway; Jacob Hathaway; Lawrence 
Hathaway; of Carmichaels; and Mrs Mary McGinnis of Lincoln, 
Illinois. Mr Hathaway was well known and was regarded as a 
man of great business ability, sound judgment and sterling 
integrity. He had been a member of the Cumberland 
Presbyterian Church for over forty five years, and was a 
ruling elder in that church for thirty two years. He was 
without question a true Christian.

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