Central Park in downtown Hannibal Missouri is the site of a
statue, dedicated in 1914, honoring Rep. William Henry Hatch
(1833-1896), the author of the Hatch Act of 1887.
William Henry Hatch was
- a distinguished lawyer,
- a Confederate Army officer during the Civil War, and
- a long-time (1879-1895) Representative of the State of Missouri
to the U.S. House 1 2.
Hatch sponsored the bill that created the office of the
Secretary of Agriculture. He was also responsible, via the Hatch
Act of 1887, for the establishment of an agricultural experiment
station at each land-grant college of agriculture 3, including the University of Missouri
4. At the University of Missouri in Columbia,
Hatch
Hall, a residence hall, is named after him, and eight Graduate
Fellowships are awarded yearly in his name 5.
The statue was the work of noted Missouri sculptor Frederick C.
Hibbard, who was born in 1881 in nearby Canton, Missouri, studied
electrical engineering at the University of Missouri, and studied
sculpture at the Art Institute of Chicago 6. Hibbard subsequently sculpted the
Mark
Twain statue that overlooks the Mississippi River in
Riverview Park, as well as the statue of Tom
Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn at the foot of Cardiff Hill.
To log this cache you may either:
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With your log, post a picture of yourself in front
of the Hatch statue, with your GPS in hand, or
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Email us the answer to the following
questions:
a. What one word in the text on the back of the statue base is
contracted (i.e., contains an apostrophe to shorten it, such as the
word "isn't").
b. Locate the Veterans Memorial in the same park, at coordinates
N39 42.540, W91 21.553, locate the panel of names that faces the
river. Find the column headed with the name "Griffith, Clifford";
send me the 51st name.
Huckleberry
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