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Elisha Hyatt, one of the pioneers in California, and known in later years as a freethinker, died Wednesday at the home of C. P. Somerby, 318 West Forty-fifth Street. He was born in Westchester County Dec. 25, 1814, and came to this city in the early thirties. In 1845 he went to San Franciso. During the following years of excitement and discovery in the mining fields he crossed the plains to Utah several times, and was at one time interested in mining. In 1869 he returned to the East, and settled on Long Island as a farmer, near Merrick. Since that time he has been actively known in connection with the propagation of purely humanitarian ideas, and was also an advocate of free thought and Socialism. His body was cremated at Fresh Pond, L.I., yesterday and a memorial service with an address, will be held shortly.