| Wedges Prairie Cemetery The Hazen family Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin | |
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The Hazen Martial Band Chester Hazen Calvin Hazen John Hazen |
Among the first settlers of Springvale, were the nine Hazen brothers; sons of John and Polly (Blodgett) Hazen, who were natives of Massachusetts, but early immigrants to Lewis Co., N.Y., where these sons were born; their father dying in 1838, eight of the brothers with their mother came to Wisconsin in July, 1844, and settled in the town of Oakfield, Fond du Lac Co., and later in the town of Springvale; they were Sewell V., now living at Winona, Minn., to which place he removed in 1861; Calvin, now a citizen of this town - Springvale; Alonzo, now a residen to Eau Claire Co., Wis; James, who was perhaps the first physician in the town of Springvale, and who soon after settled in Milwaukee, but was forced on account of ill health to give up his professional work (he died in the city of Fond du Lac, Aug 13, 1853, leaving a daughter, Nettie, who afterward, with her mother and stepfather, removed to Wyoming, and there was drawn as one of the first twelve lady jusists in the United States); Lorenzo, who preceded the rest of the family in the town of Oakfield a year (he was a member of the Wisconsin Constitutional Convention; he afterward removed to the city of Fond du Lac, thence to the city of Ripon, and, finally, to Owatonna, Steele Co. Minn., where he is not County Judge); John, now a citizen of Springvale; Sanford, now a resident of Ripon, Wis; Chester, who was the second settler of this town - Springvale; Loren E., who returned to New York, and is now a resident of the town of Copenhagen, Lewis Co. Their mother died at her son Calvin's home in Springvale in June 1856. 1880 Biographical and Historical History, Fond du Lac Co. WI page 927-928 |
| THE HAZEN MARTIAL BAND Who of the old settlers does not remember the Hazen Springvale Martial Band? At fairs, 4th of July, political meetings and other gatherings, if the Hazen Springvale Band was there or to be there, the crowd was in the immediate vicinity. All the band were Hazens but one, Uncle W. Florida. Chester and Loren Hazen were the fifers, Sanford, Lorenzo and Calvin Hazen the snare drummers, and Warren Florida, the bass drummer. When they were in Fond du Lac at the Harrison Political meeting in 1892, the statement came from them that this was probably the last they would ever play together, and it was. All have died since then. The band was organized and first played in the Harrison campaign of 1840, in the state of New York, so they were together as a band more than half a century. Incidents and anecdotes of early days and History of Business by A.T. Glaze, 1905 Page 224-225 | |
| CALVIN HAZEN CALVIN HAZEN, farmer, Secs. 35 and 36; P.O. Ladoga; is the son of John and Polly Hazen, nee Blodgett, born in Lewis Co., N.Y., in October, 1811; he spent much of his early life on a farm in his native county. In June, 1838, he was married to Miss Pauline, daughter of Isaac and Persus Brewer, natives of Lewis Co., also; they with a daughter, Irene, and his mother's family, immigrated to Wisconsin in 1844, and arrived in Milwaukee July 2 of that year. Their first settlement was in the town of Oakfield, Fond du Lac Co., near the place where the village is now located; two years later he preempted 160 acres in Sec. 36, town of Springvale, but through a mistake could only hold eighty acres of it; he removed to Springvale at that time, and has since made it his home; he now has a farm of 191 acres, forty acres of which is in Sec. 12, town of Waupun, the rest in Secs. 35 and 36, Springvale. Here his wife died in December, 1851, leavbing three children - Irene (now the wife of H. Finch, of Steele Co., Minn.), Jane (now Mrs. George Ballard, of Dodge Co., Minn), and Edgar, of Cottonwood Co., Minn. In December, 1855, he was married to Miss Meribah, daughter of Russell land Nancy Brown, a native of New York, but an immigrant to Fond du Lac Co., Wis. in 1848; their children are Jason (deceased), Fred C., Hattie L. and Spener R. 1880 Biographical and Historical History, Fond du Lac Co. WI page 927-928 | |
| CHESTER HAZEN CHESTER HAZEN, resides on the southeast quarter of Sec. 34; P.O. Ladoga, Fond du Lac Co., Wis; proprietor of Ladoga, Brandon & Grand Prairie cheese factories, and breeder of pure-blooded Ayrshires; he was born on the 31st of January, 1824, in Copenhagen, Lewis Co. N.Y.; his ancestry are of English origin, and came from England about the middle of the seventeenth century, and settled in Massachusetts, where his great-great-grandfather, Edward Hazen, was born Sept 10, 1660; his son Benjamin was born in Rowley, Mass. On the 19th day of February 1694; and his son Edward was born at Groton, Mass., May 2, 1737; and his son John Hazen, was the father of the subject of this sketch, and was born at Swanzey, N.H. on the 17th of March 1786, and died Nov. 22, 1838; his wife's maiden name - the mother of Chester - was Polly Blodgett. Eight brothers, including Chester, came West, and landed at Milwaukee on the 2d of July 1844 and immediately thereafter settled in Fond du Lac Co.; another brother, Lorenzo, had preceded the family and settled in Oakfield in the fall of 1843; Chester settled first in the township of Oakfield, but sold his claim in the spring of 1845, and bought the farm where he now resides; has a home farm of 240 acres, 80 of which is meadow; he has also a farm of 200 acres in the township of Green Lake, county of Green Lake, where his Grand Prairie Cheese Factory is located; he also owns an improved farm of 320 acres in Cerro Gordo Co. Iowa. He was married, June 8, 1854, to Miss Jennie Atwood, formerly of Vermont; he has had two children - Della M., who was born Oct 12, 1855, and Bertie, born Oct 24, 1859, died Aug 25, 1862. Della was married on the 2d of September 1879 to William Griffith, of Metomen, Fond du Lac Co., Wis. Of the nine Hazen brothers who began Western life in the county, four still live in Fond du Lac Co., namely Chester, Sewell, John and Sanford; one, a physician, James, died in August 1853; Calvin lives in Winona, Minn., and Lorenzo is County Judge of Steele Co., Minn., and Alonzo is in Eau Claire Co., Wis., and Loren E. is a physician in his native place, Copenhagen, N.Y. The nine brothers have an aggregate of twenty-six children, and forty-five grandchildren. In early life, Chester learned the trade of Molder, and worked at the same for ten years, but his life-work has been farming; he commenced dairying on his Springvale farm in 1850, and that, together with stock-raising, continues to be his business or profession. In 1864, he built and ran the first cheese factory in Wisconsin, and it for eight years was the largest factory in the State. In 1870, he shipped the first car load of cheese that was ever sent to the New York market, by the manufacturer, from Wisconsin. The "Fond du Lac County Dairymen's Association" was organized in 1869, and was the first association of the kind in the State. Mr. Hazen was its first President. The "Wisconsin State Dairymen's Association" was organized in 1871, with Chester Hazen as President, and he was twice re-elected to the same position. He has been actively interested in agricultural enterprises, having been an official ten years in the Fond du Lac County Agricultural Society, and also for six years in the "Northern Wisconsin Agricultural and Mechanical Association, and also fours years in the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society. He is President of an association which is running a "co-operative store" at Brandon, Fond du Lac Co. Mr. Hazen is emphatically the pioneer dairyman of Wisconsin; he milks eighty cows this season - 1880. He has been practically interested for fully thirty years in securing the best dairy stock, and finally decided to try the Ayrshire, and in March 1873, he bought ten pure-blood Ayrshires, and, since that date he has made a specialty of breeding that stock. He has not sixty head of Ayrshires, and, everything considered, he believes them to combine more good qualities for general purposes than any other breed on the continent. He has been a reliable Republican ever since the organization of the party. He is liberal in his religious views, and is a member of the First Universalist Society of Fond du Lac Co. The social Qualities and personal characteristics of this enthusiastic dairyman are too well known to need description in Wisconsin history. 1880 Biographical and Historical History, Fond du Lac Co. WI page 927-928 | |
| JOHN HAZEN FAMILY JOHN HAZEN, farmer, Sec. 34; P.O. Ladoga; is the sixth of the nine sons of John and Polly Hazen; he was born in the town of Denmark, Lewis Co., N.Y., Feb. 19, 1819; he spent his early life with his parents on a farm in his native county, and early acquired the habits of industry and economy which have characterized his life; in the summer of 1844, he, with his wife, mother and seven brothers, immigrants to Wisconsin, and settled in the town of Oakfield; in March, 1846, he removed to a farm in Sec. 34, town of Springvale, where he has since lived, and now has 191 acres. In Jefferson Co., N.Y. Oct. 4, 1843, he was married to Miss Melissa, daughter of John W. and Anna Moore, nee Townsend, who came to Wisconsin in 1846, and settled in the town of Springvale, where her mother died June 22, 1860, and her father Aug 2, 1878, leaving eight children, four of whom now live in Fond du Lac Co.; Mr. And Mrs. Hazen have two children - Anna A. (now Mrs. E.C. Sherwin, of Springvale), and H. Sidney, who was the first child born in this town, Sept. 7, 1847. 1880 Biographical and Historical History, Fond du Lac Co. WI page 927-928 | |
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