Hatch, Peter Holt, 1810-1898.

Peter Holt Hatch was born in 1810 in Parsonfield, Maine. Originally trained as a blacksmith, he joined a whaling expedition and travelled to the Hawaiian Islands, where he worked for a time as a missionary. In 1843 he came to Oregon with his first wife, Charlotte Colcord Hatch, and his son David, settling at first in Oregon City. With Osborne Russell and Robert Moore, Hatch organized the First Presbyterian Church of Willamette Falls, and was later ordained an elder or deacon. After running a flat boat service between Portland and Oregon City, he moved to Salem in 1863 and began a house-moving business, which he ran until his retirement. He married his second wife, Sarah Locey, in 1847, and the couple had seven children.

From the guide to the Peter Holt Hatch papers, 1843-1991, 1843-1897, (Oregon Historical Society)