[p. 702] proprietor of the New Castle Furniture & Cabinet Company, located at No. 131 South Mill Street, New Castle, is a well known citizen and reliable business man. He was born September 25, 1843, in Slippery Rock Township, Lawrence County, Pennsylvania, and is a son of Levi and Mary (Lutton) Hazen. The Hazen family has been one of prominence in this section for many years.
Aaron N. Hazen was reared on the home farm in Slippery Rock Township and attended the district schools until he was sixteen years of age. With a boy's ambition to see something of the world beyond the confines of home, he started for the West, and before he returned to New Castle, in 1863, had spent three years, mainly in Illinois and Texas, a part of the time being employed in a sugar mill. In August following his return home, he enlisted for service in the Civil War then in progress, entering Company I, Two Hundred Twelfth Regiment, Pennsylvania Heavy Artillery, in which he served until its close. He is a member of the Grand Army Post at New Castle.
After the close of his military service, Mr. Hazen learned the carpenter trade and continued to work as carpenter and contractor for the succeeding twenty-eight years. In 1900 he inaugurated his present business. He carries a large and varied stock and enjoys a large amount of patronage.
Mr. Hazen married Lucetta Keller, and their six children are all representative and respected residents of New Castle. The eldest daughter, Laura, married W. N. Davis; Dallas Avon, the eldest son, conducts a restaurant; Clement Ely assist his father in the store; Clarence Levi is a working carpenter; Oscar L. is a printer; Jonathan, the youngest, is foreman in the shops of the Steel Car Company.
20th Century History of New Castle and Lawrence County Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens Hon. Aaron L. Hazen Richmond-Arnold Publishing Company, Chicago, Ill., 1908
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