Anything on internet concerning william hattan?

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Answer 1

I googled and found a link to this photo of William Hattan:

http://www.minnichphoto.com/gallery/army...

Not sure if this is the William Hattan you are looking for, but this is interesting.

Here is a link detailing the William Cary Hattan collection:

http://www.etsu.edu/cass/Archives/Collec...

William Cary Hattan was born on his family’s farm in Rockbridge County, Virginia on December 15, 1875. He graduated from New Providence Academy in Brownsburg, Va., in 1895 and in 1899 took a degree in civil engineering from Washington and Lee University in Lexington, VA immediately after graduation; he began a long career working for various railroads in both the eastern and western United States.

In 1904, he became resident engineer on the Cumberland Extension of the Western Maryland Railway and was involved in extensive construction work along the Potomac Valley. The following year, Hattan joined the South and Western Railway (later known as the Carolina, Clinchfield and Ohio Railway or “Clinchfield”). His initial work involved helping design and oversee construction of “The Loops” section along the Blue Ridge Mountains near Little Switzerland, N. C. His work also involved him in helping lay out the modern city of Kingsport, Tenn. He returned to a position with the Western Maryland line for a time before rejoining the CC&O and helping see it to completion. Hattan was chief engineer for the Carolina, Clinchfield and Ohio Railway, with offices in Erwin, Tenn., from 1920 until his death in 1929, following complications from an appendectomy.

Hattan’s daughter, Mary Hattan Bogart wrote a biography of her father using his diaries and photographs in a book titled Conquering the Appalachians: Building the Western Maryland and Carolina, Clinchfield & Ohio Railroads Through the Appalachian Mountains (Rochester, N. Y.: Railroad Research Publications, 2000). Researchers are referred to this work for more biographical detail.

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Answer 2

who is William Hattan?