Tehama County

Biographies

 

JAMES H. HATCH, D.D.S.

JAMES H. HATCH, D.D. S., whose office is at No. 1011 Pine street, San Francisco, has been a resident of the Pacific coast since 1853, and has been engaged in the practice of dentistry since 1859. He was born in Williamstown, Vermont, in 1839, the son of Henry L. Hatch, who was one of the pioneer viticulturists of the State, his wines in Nevada county having a valuable reputation, even all over the coast. In 1885 he took the premium for the best Port and Angelica wines at the State fair. He is now a resident of the lemon and raisin district in Tulare county.

     James H., our subject, received his early education in the public schools of Waukegan, Illinois, to which place his parents had removed when he was five years of age. At the age of fourteen, in 1853, he came with his mother and family to California, his father having come to the coast in 1850. In 1859 he commenced the study of dentistry in the office of Dr. A Chapman, a well-known dentist of Nevada City, with whom he studied three years. He then went to Philadelphia, where he entered the Pennsylvania College of Dental Surgery, graduating in 1863. For a year he practiced in Carson City, Nevada, and another year in San Francisco. He then passed eleven years in dental practice in Portland, Oregon, and in 1876 returned to this city, where he has since been continuously engaged in his profession. For two years Dr. Hatch was connected with the Clinical Board of the College of Dentistry of the University of California.