Sacramento County Biographies

WILLARD HAZEN

Transcribed by: Nancy Pratt Melton

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GEORGIANA TOWNSHIP. 
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	Post Office, Richland; lives twenty-eight miles from Sacramento; 
was born in Vermont in 1817; removed to New Hampshire in 1834, and lived there 
until 1848: he came to California January 1, 1849, and settled in this county in 
1856; living on the river, he lost everything by the flood of 1862; his 
brightest hopes were thus blasted, for he was then planning to marry, having 
been engaged to his present wife since 1854; in consequence of this misfortune 
he did not marry until 1870; the fair one who thus waited sixteen long years for 
the one of her choice was Miss H. M. Eastman, also a native of Vermont. Mr. 
Hazen owns one hundred and forty acres, worth, with improvements, $20,000. He is 
now engaged in farming and fruit-raising. 
 
Source: History of Sacramento County, California With Illustrations 1880 by 
Thompson & West.