Person:Enos Hazard (3)

BIOGRAPHY: La Grange Pioneers La Grange Ladies' Aid Society Walworth County, Wisconsin Published 1935 Page 107 - 108

  Enos Hazard was born at Southington, Conn. His father moved his family to Hazardo Corners near Binghampton, N. Y., and it was from this place that Enos and his brother, Ezra, came west in 1835. The stopped in Illinois for a time, but in 1838 came to Milton, Wis., and bought land. For a time they did teaming between Fort Atkinson and Chicago. Enos was the business manager and Ezra attended the camp duties. They had many interesting experiences and some close calls while on these trips. At one place the settlers  were much exited because a French girl was held captive by the Indians. Enos Hazard was delegated to release her. He went to the Indian camp and told them that their camp would be attacked at sundown if the Thebault (Tee'bo) girl were not freed. An Indian squaw came for him with a knife, but an Indian buck attacked her so fiercely that Enos had to go to her defense. The French girl was released and worse trouble avoided.
  Enos probably grew to like our prairies while crossing them to and fro, for in 1840 he bought of George Smith the E. ½ of the SE ¼ of Sec. 15, La Grange, leaving his brother on the Milton land. Mr. Hazard immediately improved this new place, and married Julia Celestia Knight in 1845. Soon public duties were imposed on him by his  fellow citizens, and in 1849 he was elected to the second session of the State Legislature. At one time he owned the forty acres east of the road adjoining his farm. He raised wonderful crops of grain that had to be hauled to Milwaukee. He also raised broom corn that William Houghton made into brooms in a shop on his farm. Many young men were employed by him. He was one of a number of men in La Grange who gave time and bought bonds trying to bring a railroad in this direction. Many of the farmers' marketing problems were solved when the railroad did finally reach Eagle in 1852.
  In 1857 Enos Hazard built the barn that still stands on the Ashley Rhodes farm. Jas. Knight was the carpenter. On the day set for the raising a great crowd of men and boys were on hand but someone had thrown the wooden pegs (8 inches long and 1 inch in diameter) into the water trough thinking they would drive more easily if slippery. They had softened so much they had to be dried in Mrs. Hazard's oven. That must have been as much of an annoyance to Mrs. Hazard as to the men, as she was preparing a substantial lunch for the crowd.
  The town lost a valued citizen when Mr. Hazard died in 1857, aged 46 years. He is buried in Round Prairie Cemetery.

(Note- accuracy of any reports in this volume are suspect - have found many errors)

LAND: Wisconsin Land Records Name: Enos Hazard Land Office: MILWAUKEE Sequence #: 1 Document Number: 6842 Total Acres: 71.6 Signature: Yes Canceled Document: No Issue Date: 3 Mar 1843 Mineral Rights Reserved: No Metes and Bounds: No Statutory Reference: 3 Stat. 566 Multiple Warantee Names: No Act or Treaty: April 24, 1820 Multiple Patentee Names: No Entry Classification: Sale-Cash Entries Land Description: 1 W½SW 4TH PM - 1831 MINNESOTA/WISCONSIN No 3 N 12 E 4 Source Information: United States, Bureau of Land Management. Wisconsin Land Records [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 1997. Original data: United States, Bureau of Land Management. Wisconsin Pre-1908 Homestead and Cash Entry Patent and Cadastral Survey Plat Index. General Land Office Automated Records Project.

CENSUS: 1850 United States Federal Census Name: E J Hazard Age: 39 Estimated birth year: abt 1811 Birth Place: New York Gender: Male Home in 1850 (City,County,State): Lagrange, Walworth, Wisconsin Source Citation: Year: 1850; Census Place: Lagrange, Walworth, Wisconsin; Roll: M432_1007; Page: 372; Image: 412.