GOODRICH HATTON.
The founder of the Hatton family in Virginia was Lewis Hatton, an
English ship-owner, who settled on a large tract of land in Norfolk
county on the north side of the western branch of the Elizabeth river,
now known as "Hatton's Point." He was engaged in privateering
during the war of the Revolution, and died in 1784. Goodrich, subject
of this sketch, is descendant in the fourth degree of lineal consanguinity
from this Lewis Hatton, who was great grandfather of Goodrich's
father, Edward Alexander Hatton, who was born at Portsmouth, June
6, 1830, and married Susan Rebekah Nash, who was born at Portsmouth,
October 26, 1830. Their son Goodrich was born at "Waverly,"
the residence of his grandfather, in Norfolk county, May 8, 1862.
He was educated at the Norfolk Male Academy and at the University
of Virginia, graduating from the last named institution with degree of
Bachelor of Law in the year, 1883. He began practice as attorney and
counsellor at law in Portsmouth in September, 1883, in which he still
continues.
