Background
Hatfield, William Durell was born on July 7, 1892 in Jacksonville, Illinois, United States. Son of Elmer E. and Jennie (Moffett) Hatfield.
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William Durell Hatfield
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Education
Bachelor of Science, Illinois College, 1914; Master of Science, University of Illinois, 1916; Doctor of Philosophy, University of Illinois, 1918.
Career
Assistant chemist and bacteriologist, Illinois Water Survey, 1915-1918; assistant professor organic and physical chemistry, Montana State College, 1919-1920; superintendent water filtration,, Highland Park, Michigan, 1921-1923; superintendent sanitary district, Decatur, Illinois, 1924-1958; consultant sanitary chemical engineering specializing in control, operation plants for treatment and purification sewage and industrial wastes., from 1958.
Achievements
Membership
Chairman Decatur City Plan Commission, 1947. President Decatur council Boy Scouts American, 1936. Second lieutenant, Sanitary corpus, United States army, 1918-1919.
Member American Society of Civil Engineers (Rudolf Hering award 1931, Thomas Fitch Roland prize 1931), Water Pollution Control Federation (Charles Alvin Emerson award 1953, president 1959), American Chemical Society (Distinguished Service award water and sewage section 1957), Center State Sewage and Industrial Wastes Association ( president 1945), Illinois Society Professional Engineers (president Center Illinois 1946), American Water Works Association, Rotary (president Decatur 1935).
Connections
Married Clarinda Wyne, February 15, 1919. Children: Eleanor W. (Mistress M. Homer Beatty), Richard D., Walter L.
