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WALTER S. HATFIELD, M. D., a prominent physician of Covington Ky., was born near South Bend, St. Joseph Co., Ind., June 23, 1854, and is a son of Abel J. and Martha (Zigler) Hatfield. Abel J. Hatfield was born June 10, 1828, the eldest of eleven children born to Nathan L. and Emily (Roe) Hatfield. Mrs. Martha (Zigler) Hatfield was born in Virginia in February, 1830, the daughter of Samuel and Margaret (Garwood) Zigler, who removed from Virginia to St. Joseph County, Ind., about the year 1838. Samuel Zigler followed farming until about 1866, when he engaged in the saw mill and lumber business until his death, which occurred in 1874 in his seventy-fourth year; his wife died in 1883 at the age of seventy-three. Mrs. Martha Hatfield died September 26, 1861. Nathan L. Hatfield was born in Dayton, Ohio, in 1804, the youngest of nine children born to Jonas Hatfield, a native of Wales who immigrated to America at the age of nine years, settling in Pennsylvania, but afterward removed to Kentucky, where he married a widow by the name of Rachel (Llewellyn) Janny, and where several of his children were born; he afterward moved to Dayton, Ohio, where Nathan L. Hatfield was born in 1804. In 1810 he removed to Green’s Fork of the White River (afterward Washington), Wayne County, Ind., where he died in 1813, having always followed farming. Nathan L. Hatfield removed to St. Joseph County, Ind., in 1830, when the county was first settled, and engaged in farming; here he died in March, 1875, at the age of seventy-one years. Mrs. Emily (Roe) Hatfield, his wife, died in 1882, at the age of seventy-one years, the mother of eleven children, of whom two died in childhood. Abel J. Hatfield still resides in St. Joseph County, Ind., by occupation an apiarist. He is the father of six children, viz.: John W., Emory, Walter S., Mary, Amy Luella and Cory Morris Hatfield. In 1864 Walter S. Hatfield went to Niles, Mich., where he remained until 1874, when he returned to South Bend, Ind., and commenced to read medicine under Dr. John Maurer. He attended lectures in 1880-81, and in 1881-82 at the Hahnemann Medical College, Philadelphia, Penn., where he graduated March 14, 1882. In April of the same year he located at Benton Harbor, Mich., where he remained until the following October, when he returned to South Bend, Ind., remaining there one year. In October, 1883, he located in Covington, Ky., where he has since been actively engaged in the practice of medicine. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church North, and also a member of the I. O. O. F. and Ancient Order of Foresters.