Hazard Kendall

          Man Associated With Plano From its Early Days

Death, always sad, ever mysterious, has again called the roll 
and summoned another old resident of Plano. Friday evening 
last, as the twilight shadows began to fall, casting the 
curtain of darkness round and about the town, the spirit of 
Hazard Wilber Kendall left its mortal habitation and took
flight "Toward the setting of the sun."

The end, though not unlooked for by his relatives and closest 
friends, came as a surprise to many. Mr. Kendall had been ill 
much of the winter, and even to the brink of death at times, 
but a short while ago he was again able to be out of doors, 
giving a new-born hope to his family that he might yet be
spared to them for a number of years. But- "Death, so remote 
the fear, Still draws nearer, never seeming near."

His death was due, apparently, not from any disease, but to 
a gradual wearing out of life's mechanism, having rounded 
out eighty-five years of life. Hazard Kendall is known 
throughout the county, and in Plano he has been a familiar 
figure for thirty-seven years. 

Coming here while the town was yet in its infancy, he has 
been an important factor in the up building of the city. For 
years, in the earlier days, he held the office of city 
marshal, and was a terror to evil doers. He was, perhaps, a 
unique personality, and his appearance was striking. 

His figure was tall, and erect till bowed with age; he had a 
flowing white beard, and invariably wore the stylish silk hat 
and Prince Albert coat.

Like all men associated with public affairs, Hazard Kendall 
had his enemies, but whatever may have been his failings and 
shortcomings, he was withal, a kind and indulgent parent, 
and his surviving children, many grand-children and numerous 
friends mourn his death.

Rev. E.I. Goshen conducted the funeral honors Sunday after-
noon at the Congregational church. While the funeral march 
was being played by Miss Julia Patton six stalwart grandsons 
of the deceased-Frank, Harry, Bert and Lial Lull, Bert 
Kendall and Cort Faxon-tenderly bore the remains to the
altar; then the choir sang that divine hymn, "Gathering 
Home," so beautifully, touchingly appropriate. Rev. Goshen's 
text was chosen from Isaiah LXIV., 6. His words were 
addressed to the living rather than to the dead, for it was
but that clay tenement before him: the should had returned 
to the God that gave it being. The sighing, moaning of the 
wind without seemed as the chanting of a requiem for the 
departed, and except for the voice of the speaker a solemn 
stillness pervaded the company: the presence of Death was
felt. At he close of the ceremonies those who so desired were 
permitted to view the remains, and many an eye was moist as 
friends looked for the last time upon the features that were 
so natural in death. Then again was the casket and its 
precious dead raised by strong and loving arms and borne to 
the waiting hearse, and the sad funeral march to the Plano 
cemetery began, and beneath the sod repose all that was 
mortal of Hazard Wilber Kendall.

     Yet not thus buried or extinct
     The vital spark shall lie.
     For o'er life's wreck that spark shall rise
     To seek its kindred sky.


Mr. Kendall was the last of a family of nine-seven boys and 
two girls.  Since the death of his wife his home has been 
with his son, E.W. Kendall, corner of Main and James streets, 
where he was cared for by willing hands and loving hearts in 
his declining days.

The relatives who were here from a distance are: Mr. and 
Mrs. Frank Lull, Sr., Mr. and Mrs. Frank Lull, Jr., Mr. and 
Mrs. Bert Lull, and Harry and Lial Lull, all of West Pullman; 
Mr. and Mrs. I. Eberly, Mrs. Charles Favor and Mrs. I. 
Eberly, Mrs. Charles Favor and Mrs. Miner, Aurora; Mr. and 
Mrs. Ernest Kendall and Cort Faxon, Chicago; Mrs. Frank Kelly 
and son, Milwaukee, Wis.; Augustus Kendall, Hamlet, Ill.

                              Biographical Sketch

Hazard Wilber Kendall was born in Towanda, Bradford County, 
Pa., in the year 1814, and died in Plano, Ill., February 24, 
1899. He was married during the year 1835 to Miss Mary Smith, 
at Ripley, Chautauqua County, N.Y. His wife died three years 
later, leaving one son, Augustus Kendall, now of Hamlet, Ill. 
In 1841 he was again united in marriage to Miss Ursula 
Russell, of Ripley, N.Y. By this union two sons and two 
daughters were born. Three of his children survive him-
Augustus Kendall, Mrs. Laura Jane Lull and Elyzer Webster 
Kendall; also an adopted son, Ernest B. Kendall, associated 
with William Deering & Co.

H.W. Kendall came to the west from Ripley, N.Y., in 1855, 
locating in Columbus, Columbia County, Wis., where he 
remained for two years, removing from there to Kaneville, 
Ill., and to Plano in 1862, where he has been a continuous
resident to the time of his death.

 - Source unknown, March 1, 1899


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