12 Facts About Abram Hatch

Abram Chase Hatch was an American Mormon pioneer and missionary and was a politician in Utah Territory.

Abram Hatch often traveled east to obtain merchandise and to help other Mormon pioneers come to Utah.

Abram Hatch made a total of 11 trips between the Missouri River and Utah Territory before the transcontinental railroad was completed in 1869.

From 1864 to 1867, Abram Hatch was a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the United Kingdom.

Abram Hatch returned home to Utah after touring western Europe in 1867.

Abram Hatch served as probate judge of Wasatch County, the main judicial office in Territorial Utah, especially since it was the highest judicial office that the people and not the outsider federal appointment process chose.

Abram Hatch was a member of the Utah Territorial Legislature for 23 years.

Abram Hatch was the first representative who proposed that women in Utah be given the vote; the territory granted the vote to women in 1870.

Abram Hatch became a member of the Council of Fifty on June 29,1883, and was a member until his death.

Abram Hatch was married to Parmelia Jane Lott from 1852 until her death in 1880; the couple had seven children.

In 1882, after his first wife's death, Abram Hatch married Ruth Woolley, with whom he had six children, including Vermont Abram Hatch.

Abram Hatch's older brother Jeremiah is a great-grandfather of US Senator Orrin Abram Hatch.