Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1894 — DEATH OF FRANK HATTON. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

DEATH OF FRANK HATTON.

Famous Editor-Politician Expires at Washington from Paralysis. Frank Hatton, editor of the Washington Post, is dead. He was stricken with paralysis a week previous, and

although hopes of his recovery were at first entertained a sudden change for the worse Monday morning was the beginning of the end. He died shortly after 4 o'clock on the afternoon of the tamj day. Frank Hatton was born at Cadiz,

FRANK HATTON. \

Ohio, in April, 1845. His father was editor and publisher of the Cadiz Republican. In his ninth year Frank Hatton began his journalistic career as printer's devil in his father's office. Later he became foreman in the Republican office and afterward succeeded his father in the editorial chair of the paper. From the place of his birth he removed to Mount Pleasant. lowa, in 186<>. and under the supervision of his father edited the Mount Pleasant Journal. After the death of his father, in 1874. Hatton bought a half interest in the Burlington ilowaj Hawkeye. Only a few years were necessary to make him the" editor-in-chief and sole proprietor of the Hawkeye, which under his management became one of the leading newspapers of the West. Under the Hayes administration he was appointed postmaster at Burlington in November, 187 V, and after the death of Garfield, in September, 1884, President Arthur appointed him First Assistant Postmaster General to succeed James N. Tyner. Later on, when Postmaster General Gresham handed in his resignation. Hatton was appointed to till the vacancy. His public career ended, Mr. Hatton returned to his favorite field of journalism. and was editor successively of the National Republican, the New York Press, of which he was one of the founders, and the Washington Post, of which he was editor and proprietor at the .time of his death. The Post, as the Burlington Hawkeye, owes its success to his iudicious management during a period of five years. Mr. Hatton was a 1. yal party man, an able public officer, and a “family man.” In the civil war he served the Union side in an Ohio regiment, where he remained as a private until the end of the war.