Harrison County Iowa Genealogy

HISTORY OF HARRISON COUNTY, IOWA, 1891
BIOGRAPHIES
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JOSEPH C. HASZARD

Joseph C. HASZARD, a farmer located on section 13, of union Township, came to Harrison County in September, 1867, and rented a house on the land he now occupies. Before spring he bargained for the place, paying $15 per acre for forty-seven acres, five acres of which had been broken; the remainder was timber and hzlebrush land. To this he has added forty-three acres more, making n inety acres in all of which sixty are undr cultivaton. The place is well improved, provided with a good house, outbuildings, and two wells. It may be said of this man that he is truly a home man, always found about the place unless called away on business.

Mr. HASZARD was born in Marcy, Oneida County, NY, October 23, 1835, and is the son of George and Elizabeth ( CHAMPLAIN) HASZARD, natives of Connecticut and Rhode Island, respectively. They were the parents of six children, as follows: Thomas, Louisa T., Jeffrey W., one deceased in infancy, Joseph C., and Aba E.

The father of our subject died when he was five years old, and as soon as old enough he was bound out as an apprentice to a wagon maker, but ran away the first year and hireed out to a man on a dairy farm, getting $3 per month, but this position was anything but a continual round of pleasure, for he had to milk fifteen cows night and morning. The following year he went to live with his uncle, George H. CHAMPLAIN, where he worked for his board and clothes, and got one month's schooling. But the following season he engaged at $5 per month in a cheese factory, where he remained four years, at the end of which time he engaged with a man named WALKER (another dairyman) at $12 per month for the year, remaining there for three years.

We next find our subject at work by the month on a farm in Lafayette County, Wisconsin, and the winter following was in the big pine woods of that state, following logging and rafting for the next three years, at the end of which time he visited his native state, but returned to Wisconsin and was married. After his marriage he removed to Hamilton County, Iowa, where he rented land for four years, and then emigrated to Nebraska, where he improved a claim, and after five years sold out for $2,000, in 1807, and came to Harrison County, Iowa.

The date of his marriage was February 23,1859, and his wife's maiden name was Nancy J. JONES, daughter of Andrew and Mahaley JONES, natives of New Jersey. Mrs. HASZARD was their only child.

Mr. And Mrs. HASZARD are the parents of six children, as follows: Ursula J., born April 27, 1861; Louisa T., July 6, 1864; George T., May 5, 1867; Lora M., December 30, 1869; Herman, December 30, 1872; Albon I., July 6, 1875.

Politically, our subject is a supporter of the Democratic party;. He belongs to Masonic Lodge, No. 490, at Persia, Iowa.

From the time he was left an orphan on down until he was surrounded with a home of his own, our subject saw many hardships, and doubtless appreciates the comforts of a well regulated home more than the average man who grew to manhood under the paternal roof, with all the advantages that comfortable circumstances can afford.

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