Biography of Jonathan Hazlett, page 991.  History of De Kalb County, 
Indiana.   Inter-State Publishing Company, Chicago, 1885.

Jonathan Hazlett, engineer and grain inspector for the Lake Shore & Michigan 
Southern Railroad Company, at Butler Ind., was born in Wayne County, Ohio, 
Feb. 26, 1831, a son of David Hazlett, a native of Pennsylvania, who settled 
in Wayne County about 1825.  His father was a blacksmith and miller by 
trade, and his early life was spent in assisting on the farm and in the 
mill.  He learned the wagon-maker’s trade and worked at it five years.  In 
the fall of 1854 he came to Butler, and in May 1855, went to St. Joseph 
County, Mich., and in the fall of 1856 returned to Butler, and worked at his 
trade two years, and then ran an engine in a saw-mill till 1864.  He enlisted 
in the war of the Rebellion in Company H, Eighty-eighth Indiana Infantry.  
He was with Sherman on his march to the sea, and participated in the battle 
at Bentonville, N.C.  He returned to Butler after the war, and in 1873 was 
employed in his present position.  He was married in December, 1860, to 
Sarah E., daughter of John Helwig, of Monravia, Kan.  They have three 
children---Florence E., now Mrs. Charles Huey; Carrie May and John H.  
Mrs. Hazlett and her daughter Florence are members of the Disciple 
church.  Mr. Hazlett is a member of the Masonic fraternity and the Grand 
Army of the Republic.  He served as Marshal of Butler one year, Trustee 
ten yeas, and Treasurer one year.

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Arlene Goodwin
Auburn, Indiana
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