Edward Hazeltine Biography


	This biography appears on page 1852-1853 in "History of South 
	Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. II (1904) and was scanned, 
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	EDWARD HAZELTINE was born in Fryeburg, Maine, and was taken three 
years later to York state, where he remained some time, removing thence 
to Canada, which was his home until 1871. Meanwhile he attended the 
public schools and when old enough began working with his father, who 
was an experienced millwright, and to this kind of labor he devoted his 
attention until becoming quite an efficient mechanic. He accompanied 
his parents to Howard county, Nebraska, where the family were among the 
early settlers. The subject's father took up a tract of government land 
in that county and engaged in farming and stock raising and it was 
there that Edward spent the ensuing five years, attending school and 
assisting in the development and cultivation of the homestead. When the 
Black Hills were opened the elder Hazeltine joined the rush to the land 
of great expectations, being followed the same year by his family. 
Edward Hazeltine and his father became associated in the mercantile 
business and soon established a lucrative trade. Severing his 
connection with the above enterprises at that time he went on the range 
and continued to ride the same until the following fall, when he 
located at what is now the city of Keystone and, in partnership with 
several of his friends, began prospecting for gold and lime, in the 
prosecution of which he traveled a large area of country and made some 
exceedingly fortunate strikes. Later Mr. Hazeltine ran a stage from Tin 
Camp to Rapid City, but the meanwhile kept up his mining interests and 
was quite successful in prosecuting the same. In 1891 he returned to 
Battle Creek where he followed placer mining during the summer months, 
but later in the season settled on a small tract of land north of 
Keystone and turned his attention to gardening, in connection with 
which he subsequently engaged in the live-stock business. Meantime his 
father and brothers took up a ranch on Battle Creek and began farming 
and cattle raising and about seven years later Edward was admitted to 
partnership with them, after which the business grew steadily in 
magnitude, the management being under the personal direction of the 
subject. The same year in which the business relationship was formed a 
sawmill was erected near Keystone, which proved a paying investment. In 
1897 Mr. Hazeltine took up a homestead in the forest reserve, two miles 
north of Keystone, and moving a sawmill to the same engaged in the 
manufacture of lumber on quite an extensive scale. His brothers are 
interested with him in this enterprise, as well as in stock raising and 
farming, and their combined business has so grown in proportions that 
the partnership is now one of the strongest and most successful of the 
kind in this part of the country. They also purchased a complete 
threshing outfit and at this time thresh all the grain in a large 
section of the country. The progressive spirit manifested in all of his 
undertakings shows Mr. Hazeltine the possessor of universal energy and 
determination while his hopefulness and optimism have had not a little 
to do in paving the way to the prominent position in business circles 
which he now occupies.

	Politically Mr. Hazeltine wields a strong influence for the 
Republican party.