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HAZLEWOOD, son of Samuel and Mary A. (Ayres) Hazlewood, was born December
10, 1839, in Roxbury, Massachusetts. He was fitted for college at Monson Academy,
Monson, Massachusetts, entered our Class in 1859, and passed the full course with us. In
college he was a member of the 'Logian Literary Society, one of the marshals at the Biennial
Celebration. He likewise had a part in the Junior exhibition, and received a Commencement appointment.
After graduation Hazlewood studied theology at the Union Theological Seminary,
New York City. June 19, 1866, he married Miss Augusta L. Maynard, of Williamstown,
Massachusetts. There were two children born to this marriage Archibald, born March
24, 1870, died November 26, 1870; Louis, born October 22, 1871. He is now in business in
Brooklyn, New York. After the completion of his theological course our classmate entered
the ministry, where he did good work for ten years as pastor of Congregational churches in
Northbridge, Massachusetts, Slatersville, Rhode Island, and Stoneham, Massachusetts. On
account of his wife's health he determined, temporarily, as was supposed, to relinquish the
ministry. He then, in 1876, took up business in the mercantile line. This continues to be
his present occupation, being agent for the house of J. and P. Coats, thread manufacturers.
His residence is in Andover, Massachusetts, and his business address is No. 127 Kingston
Street, Boston, Massachusetts.
After the death of Mrs. Hazlewood, some years ago, whose body lies in the old
burying ground a short distance west of the college campus in Williamstown,
Hazlewood, married Miss Mary E. Allen, of Waldoboro, Maine, November 23, 1886. To this marriage
one child has been born Ethel March, February 18, 1890. In his characteristic style our
classmate writes: "Flinging away whatever professional ambition I may have had in the
ministry, I entered upon a business career, in which I have been successful and have made,
I have the happiness to believe, an honorable record. Associated with those captains of
industry' who maintain our far-flung battle line' of business, I have had scope for whatever
ability I possessed, and I have found a college training of no mean advantage.
"Books and pamphlets? I am not guilty of the crime (?) of publishing any. 'Thou
canst not say I did it!' Extracts from sermons and addresses in the local press? 'Only this
and nothing more.' Clubs? I have never applied for membership in any, neither social nor
religious. Have refused positively to be dragged into politics, for which I have no taste. I
belong to no organization except that widespread fraternity, 'The A. F. and A. M.' There
are so few things to which I have belonged that I could almost say of myself what the
Frenchman, of whom Professor Gilson used to tell us, said, when he wrote his epitaph in
these words, 'Here lies poor G , who never was anything at all, not even a member of the
French Academy.'
"My classmates are all remembered with interest or affection, or both. The life at
Williams the memory will never let slip.
" 'Farewell, companions. Through the mists of night
We grope o'er roads with errors rubble strown;
But every struggle nears us to the light
Which radiates from God's eternal throne.'
"Unforgettingly,
"WEBSTER HAZLEWOOD."
ANDOVER, MASS., August 30, 1902.
Source:
Class of Sixty-Three Williams College Fortieth Year Report, by
the Class Historian, Thomas Todd Printer, Boston, 1903
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