Background
Hatch, Richard Allen was born on March 13, 1890 in Monroe City, Missouri, United States. Son of Review Wm. Allen and Martha (Thomas) Hatch.
Hatch, Richard Allen was born on March 13, 1890 in Monroe City, Missouri, United States. Son of Review Wm. Allen and Martha (Thomas) Hatch.
Bachelor of Arts, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, 1913. Graduate General Theological Seminary, New York, 1916. Student Columbia, 1914, University of Poitiers, France, 1919.
Ordained deacon and priest, Protestant Episcopal Church, 1916. Rector Palmyra, Missouri, 1919, Ottawa, Kansas, 1921, Ada, Oklahoma, 1922. Rector St. Andrews Church, Clearfield, Pennsylvania, 1923-1924, then rector St. Luke’s Church, Altoona, Pennsylvania, and now Grace and St. Peters Church, Baltimore, resigned, 1936.
Temporary work in dioceses of New Jersey and Newark while taking graduate work at Columbia. Now rector at Woodcliff, New Jersey Sabbatical year spent at Good Shepherd Church, Jacksonville, Florida. Chaplain United States of America during World War, serving with 35th Division in Argonne and Meuse.
Chairman Diocesan Board Religious Education. Member Diocesan Council (Harrisburg, Pennsylvania). Honorary canon St. Stephens Cathedral (Harrisburg).
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Married Mildred Mack, of St.