Husband Hon. Aaron Lyle Hazen 1 2
Born: 19 Feb 1837 - Shenango Twp, Beaver (later Lawrence) Co, PA 1 3
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Father: Henry Hazen (1806-1841) 4
Mother: Sarah Warnock (1815-1885) 3
Marriage: 28 Jul 1898 5
Other Spouse: Amelia J. Watson (1841-1893) 5 6 - 19 Jan 1865 5
Wife Mary E. DeGraff 5
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Died: 22 May 1908 5
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Father: Simon DeGraff ( - ) 5
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General Notes: Husband - Hon. Aaron Lyle Hazen
He was educated in the district schools of his native county, and in Beaver Academy, Beaver, Pennsylvania, and Jefferson College, at Cannonsburg, graduating in the class of 1861, with the degree of A. B. The degree of A. M. was later conferred upon him by the same institution. He pursued the study of law in college during his senior year, and was also registered as a law student with Johnston & Dana, attorneys-at-law, New Castle, Pennsylvania. He was admitted to the bar of Lawrence County on September 12, 1865. He practiced in the courts of Lawrence County until he was elected and commissioned president judge of the Seventeenth Judicial District, composed of the counties of Butler and Lawrence. He took his seat January 5, 1885, for a full term of ten years. Lawrence County was detached from the Seventeenth District and created a separate district, numbered 51, by an act of Assembly of April 28, 1893, which became effective on September 1, 1893. He was named in the act as president judge thereof, and was re-commissioned president judge of the new district for his unexpired term. He resumed the practice of law at the bar of Lawrence County January 5, 1895. He was elected to the office of district attorney in October, 1870, for Lawrence County, and served during the years 1871, 1872, 1873, and was again elected in 1873 for a second term, and served during the years 1874, 1875 and 1876. He was repeatedly chosen solicitor for the city of New Castle, and served for seven years consecutively. He also was admitted to the bar of the counties of Allegheny, Beaver, Butler, Mercer and Venango; and also to the bar, respectively, of the United States District and Circuit Courts for the Western District and Circuit of Pennsylvania. His practice has been that of a mixed character usual to a general practitioner in the smaller counties. He was concerned in an important case-Bredin's Appeal, 109 Pa. S. 357-in which appellant sought, ineffectually, to deprive the qualified electors of Lawrence County of their constitutional right to vote for the judges who should preside in their courts, and to deprive the subject of this sketch of his commission as judge.
The life of Aaron Lyle Hazen was begun on a farm; he was left fatherless when very young, and has had the usual trying experiences of a boy similarly situated. He was in the last term of his senior year in Jefferson College when Fort Sumter was fired upon. He immediately returned home and enlisted as a private, April 19, 1861, in Company H, Twelfth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, served with his regiment in Maryland, and was mustered out August 16, 1861. Being unfitted for further active service, he was refused re-enlistment. He served thereafter as paymaster's clerk until December, 1863, in the pay district of the Cumberland, Louisville, Kentucky, save when he served as captain of Company A, Fourteenth Regiment, State Militia, which was called into active service and served in Maryland during September, 1862. From January 1, 1864, he served as teller in the United States Depository in Louisville, Kentucky, until the close of the war.
He was, in politics, a Republican; denominationally, a Presbyterian. He served as trustee in the First Presbyterian Church of New Castle many years. Fraternally, he was a Free Mason and a member of Lodge No. 243, Chapter No. 170, Council No. 2, and Commandery No. 62 of Pennsylvania. He also was a member and past commander of Post No. 100, G. A. R., of Pennsylvania, and Shenango Lodge No. 195, I. O. O. F., and Manetta Lodge, No. 297, K of P. [TCHNCLC, 379]