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Andrew Jackson Hatch passed away in Oakland, California in 1891. He was sixty-eight years of age. His wife Helen passed
in 1898, still residing in New York. Her daughter Gertrude married and lived in New York until her death in 1939. Andrew is
buried in Mountain View Cemetery in Oakland. He was a man of many talents, broad interests and a good citizen; he served
Nevada well while he was a resident here.

Citations:
1 From the Nevada Historical Society Papers
2 UNR Special Collections Library
3 In 1862, Lake County, one of the Nevada Territory’s original counties, just northwest of Washoe County was renamed Roop County after the first provi-
sional governor of the Territory of Nevada, Isaac Roop. The boundary survey of 1863 determined that much of Roop County was in California, so went
into Lassen County. Nevada’s portion went into Washoe County.

4 The Riverside Hotel built on the site in 1927 still stands at the corner of Virginia and the Truckee River in Reno. It was designed by noted Nevada archi-
tect Frederick DeLongchamps as a luxury hotel. It closed in 1987, but has since been reopened as artist’s lofts, retail venues and a restaurant.
5 A cousin of this writer’s father married Isaac’s daughter Marvel Bakeless and lived and operated the Marysville Ranch for many years. The property was
bounded on the north by today’s Plumb Lane and on the south by Delucchi Lane
6 Lake’s Crossing was the toll bridge operated by Myron Lake, the controversial pioneer settler in the Truckee Meadows
7 Today it is known as the Lake Ditch

8 Andrew’s father had been a tanner and he had worked in his father’s tannery as a youth.
9 The site is now Whitaker Park, at the corner of University Terrace and Ralston Street in Reno
10 Statutes of Nevada 1957, Chapter 364, p. 646, abolished the office of Surveyor General in 1957
11 Letter to Colonel Thomas Moore, railroad contractor and promoter of the railroad

12 The resulting trial saw the first use of a typewriter in Nevada to produce a transcript of that trial.
13 Named for Amedee Moran, a New York banker and one of the railroad’s principle investors
14 Mount St. Mary’s School later became St. Mary’s Hospital in Reno. The writer’s paternal great aunt was a Dominican nun at the school for many years
and made the trip to Amedee many times
15 Flanigan’s Warehouse still stands on 4 Street in Reno and is now a furniture store
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16 Photo from Patricia Barry and the Northeast California Historical Photo Collection
17 History of Nevada and Biographical Sketches of its Prominent Men and Pioneers
18 DeLongchamps attended Reno High School and the University of Nevada, graduating as a mining engineer. He designed the Washoe County
Courthouse, nine other county courthouses in California, the Nevada Buildings at the Panama-Pacific Exhibition, the Mackay School of Mines building at
UNR, numerous famous residences, bank buildings and schools in Reno and around the west.

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