Union County, SD Biographies.....Hazen, William September 24, 1830 - 
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Source: MEMORIAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OIF Turner, Lincoln, Union and Clay Counties, South Dakota. (1897)
Author: Geo. Ogle & Co.

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, having 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.


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