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Lorenzo J. Hatch

Engraver

Centurion, 1892–1914

Full Name Lorenzo James Hatch

Born 16 July 1856 in Hartford, New York

Died 3 February 1914 in Beijing, China

Buried Maple Hill Cemetery, Dorset, Vermont

Proposed by Walter Shirlaw, Alfred Jones, and George Bernard Butler Jr.

Elected 6 February 1892 at age thirty-five

Century Memorial

Lorenzo J. Hatch, a preeminent steel engraver, for fifteen years Director of the Currency Engraving Department of China; an unusually thoughtful man, kindly and conscientious in all the affairs of life.

Henry Osborn Taylor
1915 Century Association Yearbook