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     route. The first boat loaded with general merchandise, arriving at Maumee City 
     
     on the completion of the canal was consigned to Mr. Hazard. 
     
    

    
     During Mr. Hazard’s residence in Buffalo, up to his assumption of the important 
     
     duties of the Bank of Attica, he was as a merchant and member of trade asso— 
     
     ciations, identified with the commercial interests of the place. As early as 1856, 
     
     and during the extraordinary period ofI 861, ’62, ’63 and ’64, he was President of 
     
     the Board ofTrade. In the organization and support of the celebrated One Hun— 
     
     dredth New York, known as the “ Board of Trade" Regiment, his activity and 
     
     earnestness, both in his official position, and as an individual patriot, were most 
     
     prominent. 
     
    

    
     In 1870, appreciating the completion and dangerous antagonism of the railroad 
     
     to the Erie Canal, Mr. Hazard with Alonzo Richmond, Esq., prevailed upon the 
     
     Canal Board to reduce the rates fifty per cent, and thus initiated the more liberal 
     
     policy which, it is believed, has saved the commerce of that great water-way to the 
     
     country. , 
     
    

    
     As a writer, Mr. Hazard is nervous and incisive. His “Report on Cereals,” made 
     
     to the Government as one of the Commissioners to the Paris Exposition of I 867, 
     
     is an exceptionally thorough investigation of the grain producing capacities of 
     
     different countries. In addition to the Presidency of the Bank of Attica, Mr. 
     
     Hazard is officially connected with other local institutions. He is a liberal patron 
     
     of art culture, and was influential in the establishment of the BuHalo Academy 
     
     of Fine Arts, being its President the second year ofits organization. 
     
    

    
     Soon after the close of the Civil War, Mr. Hazard feeling his health impaired by 
     
     his long continued labor in the interests of his petted 100th New York Regiment, 
     
     combined with his enormous and increasing business, commenced a long and ex— 
     
     tended tour in Europe, and spent several years abroad. On his return to America 
     
     he resumed his business relations. 
     
    

    
     While in Europe he studied carefully the system ofweather signals then in use in 
     
     France, and in 1870 he submitted to the “ Board of Trade” a report in behalf 
     
     of the appointment of a Special Committee, looking to the establishment of a 
     
    
   
   
    
     system of meteorological observation, in the interest of lake and seaward navi— 
     
     gation. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Mr. Hazard married Sarah, daughter of Rev. Archibald Mercer, of New London, 
     
     Conn., where she was born, April 24, 1815. She was born and reared a daughter 
     
     of the Church, and to its faith was given her lifelong adherence, to its holy oflices 
     
     and worship her reverent and constant attention. These made her chief support 
     
     in hours of trial, and also in later years when bodily weakness and infirmity had 
     
     shaken “this trembling house of clay.” With her, death was indeed but “the 
     
     sweet closing of an eye,” and amid the peace and stillness of that nature which 
     
    
   
   
    
     she so loved, she slept, July 5, 1866. 
     
     CHILDREN 
     
    
   
   
    
     154.9. CHARLOTTE MORGAN HAZARD, born March 4., 1834; married Frank W. Fir/fa. 
     
    
   
   
    
     1550. JOHN ROBERTSON HAZARD, born Feb., 1838; married, 1862, :74”: Howe] of Canandaigua. 
     
     1551. ARCHIBALD MERCER HAZARD, born August 8, 1844.. 
     
    
   
   
    
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