Charles A. Hazlett Biography from History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire From: Claudia Menzel - menzel99@gateway.net Surname: HAZLETT Source: History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire and Representative Citizens by Charles A. Hazlett, Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., Chicago, Ill., 1915 Page 810 CHARLES A. HAZLETT. The ancestors of the family of Hazlett of this article came from England. (I) Matthew Hazlett was born in Boston, Mass., March 22, 1743. He removed to Portsmouth, N. H., before the Revolution, and was a signer of the "Association Test" in 1776, and prominent in the affairs of the town. His unique advertisement was the first one in New Hamp- shire illustrated with a special newspaper cut, and appeared in the New Hampshire Gazette, July 17, 1767. He married in Portsmouth, December 10, 1774, Ann Frost. Among their ten children was William. (II) William, fourth child of Matthew and Ann (Frost) Hazlett, was born in Portsmouth, September 16, 1780. He married Elizabeth Ham, and they were the parents of eleven children; among them William. (III) William (2), fourth child of William (I) and Elizabeth (Ham) Hazlett, was born in Ossipee, N. H., November 18, 1808, and died in Portsmouth, February 15, 1864. He was a cabin joiner in the employ of George Raynes, shipbuilder, and worked on many famous clipper- ships, and also on the "Kearsarge" and "Ossipee," the famous war ves- sels built in the Portsmouth navy yard during the Civil War. His fourth son, William C., served on the U. S. Steamer "Ossipee" and died in 1864 from the effects of exposure while in the blockade service off Mobile, Alabama. William Hazlett married, January 8, 1834, Han- nah S. Davis, of Effingham, N .H., who was born March 9, 1812, and died June 10, 1897, seventh child of WiIliam and Sarah (Bryant) Davis. They had eight children, among them Charles Albert. (IV) Charles Albert, seventh child of William (2) and Hannah Page 811 S. (Davis) Hazlett, was born in Portsmouth, July 21, 1847. His edu- cation was obtained in the city schools, and he has the first Haven medal awarded at the High school, which he won in 1863. This large octagon medal was the nucleus of what is now the largest collection of medals and coins in the state, and its possession led to large collections of stamps, autographs and rare books of Portsmouth imprint. Mr. Hazlett entered the counting-room of ex-Governor Ichabod Goodwin in 1863, and served as a confidential clerk for nine years, while his employer was extensively engaged in foreign shipping and domestic railroad manage- ment. In 1872 he was employed as bookkeeper and teller in the First National Bank of Portsmouth, and in January, 1884, was elected cashier, succeeding E. P. Kimball, who had served thirteen years following Samuel Lord, whose term of service was forty-seven years, the bank having then had but two cashiers and three presidents since its organiza- tion as a state bank in 1824. He is president of the Piscataqua Sav- ings Bank, and executor and trustee of several large estates. He was a promoter of the Portsmouth Improvement Association, and at its organization, in 1903, was chosen president. He has served in several city offices, and was one of the park commissioners the year the land was secured for the playgrounds. For forty-one years he has been agent of the New Hampshire Fire Insurance Company, of Manchester, New Hampshire. He has been trustee of the public library since 1884, when the books of the Mercantile Library Association, of which he was president, were presented to the public library; and for twenty-five years he has been treasurer of the trustees of that institution and had charge of the in- vested funds and the purchase of books. His connection with various libraries led him to suggest to Mrs. Caroline A. Weeks the erection of the Weeks Memorial Library building at Greenland, N. H., which he designed and on its aceptance by the town he was made a life trus- tee. For many years he was warden of the North Congregational Parish, and has the care of its valuable records which cover the period from the founding of the church in 1640 to the present time. He has been a trustee of the Society for the Care of South Cemetery and sec- retary of the T. B. Aldrich Memorial from the date of their incorpora- tions. He is president of the Piscataqua Pioneers, a member of the New Hampshire Historical Society and the New Hampshire Genealogical So- ciety, a frequent contributor of articles on historic subjects to magazines, and was the principal editor of "Portsmouth, Historical and Picturesque," published in 1902, and of the Portsmouth Calendar in 1907. He has been a constant contributor to athletic publications under the nom de plume of "Telzah." He was the pioneer wheelman of New Hampshire, riding an im- ported bicycle in 1878. At the organization of the League of American Wheelmen at Newport in 1880, he was elected a director, and afterward served several years as chief consul of the N ew Hampshire division. He is a member of St. Andrews Lodge, No. 56, Free and Accepted Masons, of Portsmouth; of Osgood Lodge, No. 48, Independent Order of Odd Fellows; and of the Warwick, the Country, the Portsmouth Automobile and other social clubs. He was married in Manchester, December 10, 1884, to Josephine H. Richardson, who was born in Manchester, September 3, 1855, daugh- ter of Edwin P. and Myra H. Richardson, of Manchester, whose an- cestors settled in Massachusetts in 1630. ********************************************************************** * * * * NOTICE: Printing the files within by non-commercial individuals and libraries is encouraged, as long as all notices and submitter information is included. Any other use, including copying files to other sites requires permission from the submitters PRIOR to uploading to any other sites. We encourage links to the state and county table of contents. * * * *The USGenWeb Project makes no claims or estimates of the validity of the information submitted and reminds you that each new piece of information must be researched and proved or disproved by weight of evidence. It is always best to consult the original material for verification.