JOHN O. HAZLETT
John O. Hazlett was born January 11, 1829, in West Virginia. His mother, Mary Hazlett, died at his birth, and he was reared by his grandfather, William Ogy, of Somerset county, Pennsylvania, with whom he lived until he reached maturity. In 1861 he went to Fillmore county, Minnesota, where he lived till 1864. He enlisted in that year in company E of the Ninth Iowa Cavalry, and served one year in General Reynolds' division, in the Arkansas department. After the war he married in 1851 in Allamakee county, this State, to Margaret M. Schroder. Ten children have blessed their union--Mary S. A., wife of Ezra D. Yoder; Rachel L., George W., John Grant, Taylor E., Dora Ellen, Minnie M., Charles R., Lewis and Melinda.
Contributed by Lisa Varnes-Rex from "History of Cass County, Iowa. Together With Sketches of its Towns, Villages and Townships, Educational, Civil, Military and Political History: Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Old Settlers and Representative Citizens." Springfield, Ill.: Continental Historical Company, 1884, pg. 727.
