Husband Abraham Jones Hazeltine 1 2 3
Born: 30 Aug 1847 - Busti, Chautauqua Co, NY 3 4
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Father: Dr. Abraham Hazeltine (1797-1847) 4 5
Mother: Jane Morrison (Abt 1812-1894) 3 4
Marriage: 4 Jun 1868 3 6
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Wife Hattie E. Davis 3 6
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Father: Darius M. Davis (Abt 1816-Aft 1904) 6 7
Mother: Margaret E. [Unk] ( - ) 8
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1 M Harold Dexter Hazeltine 6 8
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Spouse: Hope Graves ( - ) 8
Marr: 15 Jun 1911 - Bennington, Bennington Co, VT 8
2 F Blanche May Hazeltine 6
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Spouse: William B. Lynde ( - ) 8
3 M Hugh Vincent Hazeltine 6 8
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4 F Grace Adelaide Hazeltine 6
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Spouse: Francis M. Caughey ( - ) 8
General Notes: Husband - Abraham Jones Hazeltine
He was born after his father's death on the Hazeltine homestead in Chautauqua County, New York, and was educated in the public schools and worked on the farm until he was fourteen years old. At this rather early age he obtained his first acquaintance with mercantile life in the general store of J. R. Robertson, and was employed there from 1861 until 1865, attending school in the winter time. In the latter year, and at the age of eighteen, he was admitted as a partner,-so far had he progressed in the confidence of his employer and in business experience,-the firm being Robertson & Hazeltine, with an annual business of about one hundred thousand dollars in butter, cheese, wool, etc. This partnership was dissolved in 1869, and Mr. Hazeltine was deputy clerk of the board of supervisors of Chautauqua County that year, and on November 10, 1869, came to Warren, Pennsylvania, as bookkeeper for E. T. Hazeltine, proprietor of Piso's Cure for Consumption. In this city his advancement was steady. On March 1, 1870, he became bookkeeper for the First National Bank, was elected teller in the following September, and on February 3, 1872, became cashier of the Warren Savings Bank, of which he was chosen president in November, 1889.
For over thirty years he was closely identified with this institution, directing its policy and having the practical management of its affairs. To it he gave constant, zealous and faithful service, and its exceptional growth and prosperity afford striking evidence of the efficiency of his service and the wisdom of his management. Coming to it in its infancy, in the second year of its existence, he gradually built it up in the confidence of the community and in financial strength until it ranked high among the best and strongest banks in the state outside of the large cities. The standing of the bank on the honor roll was number six of Pennsylvania State Banks, and number twenty-two in the United States. The capital and surplus was over four hundred thousand dollars and deposits averaged two million, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
While Mr. Hazeltine stood preeminent as a banker, he was more than that. He was a progressive and public-spirited citizen, active in promoting the good of the community in which he lived and contributing his full share to all movements for the advancement of the public interests. He was a member of the city council for six years, school director for a like period and school treasurer for about fifteen years; was elected to the office of borough treasurer March 5, 1888, while a member of the council; was for several years on the board of control of the Warren public library and at the same time treasurer; was president of the Red Star Brick Company, of Warren; a director of the Conewango Furniture Company; president of the East Warren Real Estate Company and of the Cornplanter Refining Company, the latter doing a business of over a million dollars annually, much of their product being exported to Germany and other foreign countries; was treasurer of the Union Lumber Company, treasurer and director of the Washington Improvement Company and of the Enterprise Lumber Company, these three lumber companies owning large tracts of the best fir, cedar and spruce timber in the State of Washington, and Mr. Hazeltine was one of the largest stockholders; a director of the Warren Electric Light Company, of the Security Savings & Trust Company, of Erie, of the Sheffield National Bank, of Sheffield.
Mr. Hazeltine became a member of the Young Men's Christian Association November 19, 1869, ten days after his arrival in the city, was the second president of the association and a member of the board of directors. He was a Baptist, and was a deacon in the First Baptist church beginning in 1872. He was a member of the United States Assay Commission for the year 1899, and was treasurer of the Pennsylvania Bankers' Association in 1898, and in 1900 delivered an address before the association at Cambridge Springs on the "Unification of Commercial and Banking Law." As president of the Warren Social Science Club he delivered an address on "The Hanseatic League." Mr. Hazeltine was a Republican beginning with the time he cast his first vote. He was a member of the Order of the Founders and Patriots of America, of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, and the National Geographical Society.
He was born in Busti, Chautauqua County, New York, and acquired a good education in the schools of that place. At the age of fourteen he became clerk in a store, and at the end of four years, although but eighteen years old, was taken into partnership by the firm. He continued in the mercantile line some years, acquiring a comprehensive knowledge of general business. In November, 1869, resigned his position as deputy clerk of the board of supervisors of Chautauqua County, and removed to Warren, Pennsylvania, accepting the position of bookkeeper for the Piso Company, principally owned and managed by his cousin, E. T. Hazeltine. His connection with banking interests began in March, 1870, when he entered the First National Bank of Warren as a book-keeper. In September of the same year he was made teller, and in February, 1872, was tendered the position of cashier in the Warren Savings Bank. He served in this capacity until 1889, when it became necessary to fill the vacancy left by Colonel L. F. Watson, founder and former president of the bank who had been elected to congress. Mr. Hazeltine, by reason of his long experience and tried ability, was selected for the place. The bank stood No. 6 on the honor roll of Pennsylvania state banks, and No. 26 on the honor roll of state banks in the United States. Its total resources were about $4,700,000, its deposits $3,700,000, its capital and surplus over $800,000, and it carried nine thousand good accounts. The bank building was one of the finest in the state, and was completed in 1891.
Mr. Hazeltine was one of the organizers and for a time a director of the Warren Electric Light Company, and was president of the Cornplanter Refining Company, one of the leading industries of that part of the state, and among the first established in East Warren. The principal buildings of the company were situated on the main line of the Western New York and Pennsylvania railroad, where the facilities for shipping were excellent. The company had its own pipe-line system, which ran south into the Foxburg territory and throughout Forest County, and was extensively patronized by producers in that vicinity. The company's refinery at East Warren obtained oil directly from the wells by means of pipe-lines, and the surplus oil was kept in great storage tanks, while there were additional facilities for shipping oil by means of the tank-car system, which they owned and directly controlled. These cars were shipped to many points, from the extreme of Canada to Texas, Colorado and Dakota. The western interests of the company so greatly increased that it was found necessary to establish branches at Philadelphia and Baltimore, as well as at Pittsburgh and Boston, and shipments were regularly made from Philadelphia to London and continental Europe. The product of the Cornplanter refineries consisted of cylinder oils, engine and machine oils, illuminating and neutral oils, and other oils for special purposes. They produced paraffine wax in large quantities, and their oils were all made by the most approved chemical processes. The company was backed by an abundance of capital, enabling the management to perfect their processes by careful experiments. They had a vast group of buildings lying along the rail-road, and every department was equipped with the appropriate machinery. The name Cornplanter was originally that of a famous Seneca Indian chief, by a member of whose tribe petroleum was first discovered on Oil creek. This chieftain lived in the Allegheny valley, and was said to have attained the advanced age of one hundred and one years. The great business of the Cornplanter Refining Company was destined to carry his name to every quarter of the globe. The company made a specialty of its export trade, Germany being its principal foreign market. The main American stations were Binghamton, New York; Scranton, Pennsylvania; Troy, New York, and Boston, Massachusetts.
Mr. Hazeltine's principal investments, however, were in timber and coal lands, the former being mostly in Washington and Oregon, the latter being located in West Virginia and Kentucky.
Politically Mr. Hazeltine was a Republican. He served on the school board and the borough council. For many years he was a member and treasurer of the board of control of the public library, and president of the Young Men's Christian Association of Warren. He was a member of the executive committee of the Pennsylvania State Bankers' Association, and was president of that body in 1912. He was a member of the United States Assay Commission; and was a member of the order of Patriots and Founders of America, the Union League of Philadelphia, the American and Pennsylvania Forestry associations, and the National Geographical Society. Beginning in 1871 he served as deacon in the Baptist church of Warren. [GPHAV, 565]