Monday, May 14, 2012

More Alonzo

I had the following surprise pop up in my inbox this morning and wanted to share it.  I had Bob Hatch from University of Florida, Department of History contact me today.  He is in the process of gathering all Hatch documents that he can find and depositing them in a public location- originals along with accessible scans.  Fortunately, he came across my searches for Hatch history and was nice enough to send me the photos below.  This looks to be a young Alonzo from his time in Chicago, Illinois.  I have1860 and 1870 US Federal Census' showing his residence in Illinois.  If I am reading the date correctly, he would be 28 years old in this photograph.  Other than the Census' and just a bit of his service as a very young (16 year old) Private in the Civil War, the only information I have on Alonzo has been his time as an opera singer in New York, so this was a fun find!