Union County, SD Biographies.....Hazen, William 1830 - 
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Author: Geo. A. Ogle & Co. (1897)

WILLIAM HAZEN. One of the pleasant farms of Spink township, Union county, is
that owned and operated by this gentleman, who has placed upon it such
improvements as entitle it to rank among the finest farms to be found throughout
the community. It comprises 160 acres in section 24, every acre of which is
tillable and improved, and among other adornments with which it has been
embellished is a grove and small orchard.

   Mr. Hazen is a native of Mercer county, Penn., and was born September 24,
1830. On a farm in his native county he was reared until attaining his majority,
acquiring a good common-school education, and in the spring of 1851 he came to
Jackson county, Iowa, with his parents. For ten years he made a good living
cutting wood, which he sold to steamboats plying the Mississippi river, and then
he located upon a farm in Jackson county. He made his first appearance in Union
county, Dak. Ter., in 1872, when he settled upon the farm which he now lives on
as a homestead. He was one of the first settlers in the immediate neighborhood,
and, with his family, passed through many hardships and privations, among which
was a cyclone and the grasshopper plague, as well as much sickness in the
family. His first home was a sod house, but the next spring after his arrival he
built a frame shanty, in which to house his family, and later on erected his
present commodious residence. He has been exclusively a farmer, devoting his
time and energy to the improvement and betterment of his property, and, although
he takes an interest in local government, as all good citizens should, he has
never been a candidate for any political office. He was formerly a Republican
politically, but now casts his lot with the Populists, and is a member of the
school board, halving assisted in organizing the school district in which he
resides.

    Our subject's marriage to Miss Martha Jane Roe, a native of New York,
occurred in 1856, and they were the parents of three children, viz.: May, the
wife of Charles Goodroad; William B., and Grace, the wife of F. G. Newell, of
Aberdeen, S. Dak. After his first wife's death, which occurred in 1864, he was
subsequently married to the lady who now manages the affairs of his household,
the ceremony taking place in 1866, and Martha Moles, a native of West Virginia,
being the bride. This union has been blessed by the advent of six children, as
follows: Salina, Theresa, Martha, James, Vernon and Arthur. One daughter, now
deceased, had grown to womanhood, and was a school teacher. All the children
have had the advantage of liberal educations, and make up an interesting family.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

MEMORIAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD
OF 
Turner, Lincoln, Union and Clay Counties,
SOUTH DAKOTA.

Containing Biographical Sketches of Hundreds of Prominent Old Settlers and
Representative Citizens, with a Review of their Life Work; their Identity with
the Growth and Development of these Counties; Reminiscences of Personal History
and Pioneer Life; and other Interesting and Valuable Matter which should be
Preserved in History.

ILLUSTRATED
CHICAGO.
GEO. A. OGLE & CO.
Publishers, Engravers and Book Manufacturers.
1897.


Biography is the only true history.—EMERSON.

A people that take no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will
never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote
generations.—MACAULAY.


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