1.   Historical note

2.   Scope and content

3.   Provenance

4.   Processing note

5.   Inventory

6.   Subjects


    List of finding aids

    R.I.H.S. Library page

    R.I.H.S. home page

 Rowland G. Hazard II and Mary P. (Bushnell) Hazard Papers

 Manufacturer, of South Kingstown, R.I.

 Papers, 1867-1943

 Size: 20 linear feet

 Catalog number: MSS 483 sg 7

 Processed by: Steve Dalpe and Rick Stattler, July 1998


©Rhode Island Historical Society

Manuscripts Division

 


Historical note:


            Rowland Gibson Hazard II (1855-1918) was born in Philadelphia, the eldest son of Rowland Hazard II and Margaret A. (Rood) Hazard of Peace Dale, Rhode Island. He was originally named Theodore Peace Hazard, but his name was legally changed to Rowland Gibson Hazard II by an act of the state legislature in January of 1868. He generally signed his name "RGH2nd". He graduated from Mowry & Goff's English and Classical High School in Providence in 1872, from Brown University with a bachelors degree in 1876, and then received his masters degree from Brown in 1879. That year, he became the manager of his father's Missouri lead mine, the Mine La Motte, and soon returned to assume office in various family businesses. He served as an unofficial assistant to his venerable grandfather Rowland G. Hazard I through 1888. He was appointed as vice-president of the family-owned Solvay Process Company in 1891. After his father’s death in 1898, he assumed the role of family patriarch, and began a twenty-year term as president of the Peace Dale Manufacturing Company. He also served as the president of the Narragansett Pier Rail Road.

            Hazard also was involved in a wide variety of non-profit activities. He served as the president of the Agricultural Society of Rhode Island, which help organize the Rhode Island State Fair. He was a member of the executive committee to build the Rhode Island State House. He was a deacon at the Peace Dale Congregational Church, and a member of the Sunday School Association. He maintained an active involvement with Brown University as a trustee and fellow. Together with his brother and sisters, he also funded the construction of the Hazard Memorial Building and the South Kingston High School. He authored a children's Christmas play, How Robin Hood Once Was a Wait (1910), and brought his great-uncle Thomas R. Hazard's Jonny-Cake Papers to publication in 1915.

            His hobbies were collecting bird eggs and artifacts of primitive cultures. His collection of artifacts was the basis of the Museum of Primitive Culture in Peace Dale. According to an affidavit by his sister Caroline, "Mr. Hazard, since childhood, had been an enthusiastic collector of birds' eggs and during the few years that he was in California prior to his death he frequently visited a museum of natural history which at that time was poorly housed in a sort of tin shack. In this museum, he had spent many happy hours arranging and rearranging the collection of birds' eggs there and often spoke of building a suitable place for them." In 1922, his widow founded the Museum of Comparative Oology in Santa Barbara, California in his memory.

            Hazard's his primary residence was in Peace Dale for most of his life. He grew up in his father's "Oakwoods" house. Upon reaching adulthood, he moved into "The Acorns", which was renovated for his use in 1881. He then inherited his grandfather's "Holly House" in 1888, and moved in there circa 1890. Finally, he spent considerable time in the family vacation land in Santa Barbara, California. He built the "Dial House" on his sister Caroline's land there in 1915. After suffering a heart attack that year, he spent most of his remaining time at the Dial House. He died in Santa Barbara on January 22, 1918, his 63rd birthday.

            On November 16, 1880, he married Mary Pierrepont Bushnell (1859-1936), daughter of the Rev. George Bushnell and Mary E. Blake of Beloit, Wisconsin; her grandfather was the famed inventor Eli Whitney Blake. Rowland and Mary had five children:


1. Rowland III "Roy" Hazard (1881-1945)

2. Elizabeth "Betty" (Hazard) Sturges (1883-1954) (m. Rush Sturges)

3. Margaret "Peggy" (Hazard) Goddard (1886-1969) (m. R.H.I. Goddard II)

4. Mary "Polly" (Hazard) Campbell (1890-1980) (m. Wallace Campbell Jr.)

5. Thomas P. "Pierre" Hazard (1892-1968)



Bibliography:

Hazard, Caroline. Letters of Rowland Gibson Hazard, With a Biographical Sketch (privately printed, 1922). Also, a supplement titled Early Letters 1865-1867, published in 1937.

Hazard, Caroline. "Re: Estate of Mary P.B. Hazard", in this collection, series 2, subseries 1.

National Cyclopedia of American Biography (New York: James T. White, 1961), 43: 332-333.

Representative Men and Old Families of Rhode island (Chicago: Beers & Co., 1908), 2:969.

E.B. Williams Diary, R.I.H.S. Manuscripts Collection. In an entry dated September 6, 1868: "Rowland G. (Theodore with his name changed) Hazard Jr. paid me a visit this afternoon. He is boarding on Waterman St., and attending school at Mowry & Goff's."


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Scope and content:


            This collection includes extensive correspondence, subject files and financial records from all periods of Hazard's life, but is most comprehensive from about 1890 onward. It also contains about two linear feet of his wife Mary P.B. Hazard's papers. Correspondence and financial records relating to the two jointly are filed with the bulk of his papers.

            This collection includes records from the estate of Rowland G. Hazard II; the estate was for the most part held by Mary P. B. Hazard, his widow, from 1918 until her death in 1936. The estate of Mary P.B. Hazard was administered by her son Thomas P. Hazard, and records pertaining to it can be found in subgroup 9. Some of her holdings were incorporated as the Hazard Trust during her lifetime, and records of that portion of her estate can be found in subgroup 46.

            Five of Hazard's letters books relating to the Peace Dale Manufacturing Company business can be found at Harvard University's Baker Library.


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Provenance:


             The bulk of these papers were donated by the Hazard family as part of the Hazard Family Papers in 1985. They had been deposited in 1975 and 1983. The undated memoir by Mary P.B. Hazard was donated by Benjamin R. Sturges in 1997. A booklet Tables Illustrating the Wool and Woolen Industry Under Tariff Taxation (Series 2, Subseries 6, Box 10, Folder 44) which accompanied Rowland Hazard's annual address to the Washington County Agricultural Society in 1884 was donated by Millie Longo in 1997. The 1880 marriage certificate and the 39 letters from Rowland G. Hazard II to his daughter Elizabeth (Hazard) Sturges were donated by Elizabeth P.S. Anthony in 2000.


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Processing note:


            This collection is part of the Hazard Family Papers, which were processed with support from the Rhode Island Committee for the Humanities, the Beinecke Foundation, and the extended Hazard Family.


Series Arrangement:


Series 1: Correspondence 

            Subseries 1. Rowland G. Hazard II correspondence

            Subseries 2. Rowland G. Hazard II letter copy books 

            Subseries 3. Mary P. (Bushnell) Hazard correspondence 

            Subseries 4. D.W. Hoxie letter copy books


Series 2: Subject files

Subseries 1. Family

            Subseries 2. Public service and associations

            Subseries 3. Scrapbooks

            Subseries 4. Property

            Subseries 5. Business and legal

            Subseries 6. Publications, essays and addresses

            Subseries 7. Miscellaneous personal 


Series 3: Financial

            Subseries 1. Account books

            Subseries 2. Mary P.B. Hazard financial records

            Subseries 3. Taxes

            Subseries 4. Accounts with Peace Dale Manufacturing Company

            Subseries 5. Miscellaneous financial


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Inventory:


Series 1: Correspondence


Sub-series 1: Rowland G. Hazard II

These letters are arranged chronologically by year, though within years, Hazard's alphabetical filing system has generally been retained. The complete files from 1898 to 1918 (Hazard's term as unofficial family patriarch) seem to have been lost.

Box 1, folder 1. "Early Letters, 1865-1867" (edition of letters to E.B. Williams, 1937)

Box 1, folder 2. 1877

Box 1, folder 3. 1878

Box 1, folder 4. 1879

Box 1, folder 5. 1880

Box 1, folder 6. 1881

Box 1, folder 7. 1882

Box 1, folder 8. 1883

Box 1, folder 9. 1884

Box 1, folder 10. 1885, with father and grandfather

Box 1, folder 11. 1885, misc.

Box 1, folder 12. 1886, with father and grandfather

Box 1, folder 13. 1886, misc.

Box 1, folder 14. 1887

Box 1, folder 15. 1888

Box 1, folder 16. 1889

Box 1, folder 17. 1890

Box 1, folder 18. 1891, family

Box 1, folder 19. 1891, A-C

Box 1, folder 20. 1891, E-F

Box 1, folder 21. 1891, G-H

Box 2, folder 1. 1891, I-J

Box 2, folder 2. 1891, K-L

Box 2, folder 3. 1891, M-O

Box 2, folder 4. 1891, P-R

Box 2, folder 5. 1891, S-U

Box 2, folder 6. 1891, W

Box 2, folder 7. 1892, family (January)

Box 2, folder 8. 1892, family (February)

Box 2, folder 9. 1892, family (March-June)

Box 2, folder 10. 1892, family (August)

Box 2, folder 11. 1892, family (October-December)

Box 2, folder 12. 1892, A-B

Box 2, folder 13. 1892, C-D

Box 2, folder 14. 1892, G-H

Box 2, folder 15. 1892, I-J

Box 2, folder 16. 1892, K-L

Box 2, folder 17. 1892, M-N

Box 2, folder 18. 1892, O-P

Box 2, folder 19. 1892, R-S

Box 2, folder 20. 1892, T-W

Box 2, folder 21. 1893, family

Box 2, folder 22. 1893, outgoing

Box 2, folder 23. 1893, A-B

Box 3, folder 1. 1893, C-D

Box 3, folder 2. 1893, E-F

Box 3, folder 3. 1893, G

Box 3, folder 4. 1893, H-J

Box 3, folder 5. 1893, K-L

Box 3, folder 6. 1893, M-N

Box 3, folder 7. 1893, O-P

Box 3, folder 8. 1893, R-T

Box 3, folder 9. 1893, U-W

Box 4, folder 1. 1894, family

Box 4, folder 2. 1894, A-B

Box 4, folder 3. 1894, C-E

Box 4, folder 4. 1894, F-H

Box 4, folder 5. 1894, J-L

Box 4, folder 6. 1894, M-N

Box 4, folder 7. 1894, P

Box 4, folder 8. 1894, R-S

Box 4, folder 9. 1894, W

Box 4, folder 10. 1895, family

Box 4, folder 11. 1895, outgoing

Box 4, folder 12. 1895, A-B

Box 4, folder 13. 1895, C

Box 4, folder 14. 1895, D-F

Box 4, folder 15. 1895, G-H

Box 4, folder 16. 1895, J-I

Box 4, folder 17. 1895, L-M

Box 4, folder 18. 1895, P-S

Box 4, folder 19. 1896, family

Box 4, folder 20. 1896, A-C

Box 4, folder 21. 1896, D-F

Box 4, folder 22. 1896, G-J

Box 4, folder 23. 1896, L-M

Box 5, folder 1. 1896, P-S

Box 5, folder 2. 1896, T

Box 5, folder 3. 1896, W

Box 5, folder 4. 1897, family

Box 5, folder 5. 1897, A-C

Box 5, folder 6. 1897, E-F

Box 5, folder 7. 1897, G

Box 5, folder 8. 1897, H

Box 5, folder 9. 1897, J-K

Box 5, folder 10. 1898

Box 5, folder 11. 1899

Box 5, folder 12. 1900

Box 5, folder 13. 1901-1910, transcripts of letters to and from Caroline Hazard

Box 5, folder 14. 1901

Box 5, folder 15. 1902

Box 5, folder 16. 1903

Box 5, folder 17. 1904

Box 5, folder 18. 1905

Box 5, folder 19. 1906

Box 5, folder 20. 1907

Box 5, folder 21. 1908

Box 5, folder 22. 1909

Box 5, folder 23. 1910

Box 5, folder 24. 1911

Box 5, folder 25. 1912

Box 5, folder 26. 1913

Box 5, folder 27. 1914

Box 5, folder 28. 1915

Box 5, folder 29. 1915, from Pierre

Box 5, folder 30. 1916

Box 5, folder 31. 1916, from Pierre

Box 5, folder 32. 1917 (mostly outgoing)

Box 5, folder 33. 1917, from Pierre

Box 5, folder 34. Undated


Sub-series 2: Letter books

Bound copies of outgoing correspondence, arranged chronologically. Most of these volumes were too large to be boxed and foldered.

Box 5, folder 35. September 9 1879 - August 8 1882. Very brief memoranda.

Oversized volume 1. January 21 1885 - November 24 1893

Oversized volume 2. April 25 1894 - December 17 1895

Oversized volume 3. December 12 1895 - October 11 1897

Oversized volume 4. October 16 1897 - March 8 1899

Oversized volume 5. March 8 1899 - December 7 1899

Oversized volume 6. December 9 1899 - September 20 1900

Oversized volume 7. October 11 1900 - December 9 1901

Oversized volume 8. December 10 1901 - August 11 1902

Oversized volume 9. August 13 1902 - May 30 1903

Oversized volume 10. June 1 1903 - August 12 1904

Oversized volume 11. August 13 1904 - August 12 1905

Oversized volume 12. August 14 1905 - August 24 1906

Oversized volume 13. August 25 1906 - September 7 1907

Oversized volume 14. September 10 1907 - September 14 1908

Oversized volume 15. September 19 1908 - October 18 1909

Oversized volume 16. October 19 1909 - November 4 1910

Oversized volume 17. November 5 1910 - September 8 1911

Oversized volume 18. September 9 1911 - August 22 1912

Oversized volume 19. August 23 1912 - July 25 1913

Oversized volume 20. July 25 1913 - September 11 1914

Oversized volume 21. September 12 1914 - June 28 1915

Oversized volume 22. July 2 1915 - June 16 1916

Oversized volume 23. June 3 1916 - February 16 1917

Oversized volume 24. February 17 1917 - April 2 1918

Oversized volume 25. Family, March 5 1889 - July 8 1891

Oversized volume 26. Family, July 9 1891 - January 1 1894

Oversized volume 27. Family, January 4 1894 - March 19 1897

Oversized volume 28. Family, January 1 1898 - December 28 1903

Oversized volume 29. Family, January 1 1904 - May 31 1915


Sub-series 3: Mary P.B. Hazard

The large majority of these letters are from Mrs. Hazard's son Thomas P. "Pierre" Hazard. Interspersed are a few letters from Pierre to Mrs. Hazard's sister-in-law Mary I. "Aunt Minnie" Merrill. These letters were presumably passed on to Mrs. Hazard after Merrill had finished with them. There is also a file of condolence letters from the death of Mr. Hazard in 1918, and a few other scattered letters.

Box 5, folder 36. 1898-1903, from Pierre

Box 5, folder 37. 1904, from Pierre

Box 5, folder 38. 1904-1907, from St. George's School re Pierre

Box 5, folder 39. 1905, from Pierre

Box 5, folder 40. 1906, from Pierre

Box 5, folder 41. 1907, from Pierre

Box 5, folder 42. 1908, from Pierre

Box 5, folder 43. 1908-1912, misc.

Box 5, folder 44. 1909, from Pierre

Box 5, folder 45. 1910, from Pierre

Box 6, folder 1. 1911, from Pierre

Box 6, folder 2. 1912, from Pierre

Box 6, folder 3. 1913, from Pierre

Box 6, folder 4. 1914, from Pierre

Box 6, folder 5. 1915, from Pierre

Box 6, folder 6. 1916, from Pierre

Box 6, folder 7. 1917, from Pierre

Box 6, folder 8. 1917, misc.

Box 6, folder 9. 1918, from Pierre

Box 7, folder 1. 1918, January (condolences)

Box 7, folder 2. 1918, February (condolences)

Box 7, folder 3. 1918, March - May (condolences)

Box 7, folder 4. 1918, November - December, re Pierre's influenza

Box 7, folder 5. 1919, from Pierre

Box 7, folder 6. 1919, misc.

Box 7, folder 7. 1920, from Pierre

Box 7, folder 8. 1920, misc.

Box 7, folder 9. 1921, from Pierre

Box 7, folder 10. 1921-1924, misc.

Box 7, folder 11. 1922, from Pierre

Box 7, folder 12. 1923, from Pierre

Box 7, folder 13. 1924, from Pierre

Box 7, folder 14. 1925, from Pierre

Box 7, folder 15. 1926, from Pierre

Box 7, folder 16. 1926-1927, misc.

Box 7, folder 17. 1929-1930, from Pierre

Box 7, folder 18. 1931, from Pierre

Box 7, folder 19. 1931-1936, misc.

Box 7, folder 20. 1932-1935 and undated, from Pierre's children

Box 7, folder 21. 1933-1936, from Pierre


Sub-series 4: Dexter W. Hoxie

Hoxie was the personal secretary to the Hazards for many years. These volumes contain copies of Hoxie's outgoing letters on behalf of Rowland G. Hazard II, Mary P.B. Hazard, the Rowland G. Hazard II estate, and various Hazard-owned concerns. There are also a few letters written as the secretary of Rowland Hazard III, and for the estate of Rowland Hazard II.

Oversized volume 30. December 17 1907 - June 11 1921. Mostly letters to RGH II.

Oversized volume 31. April 2 1918 - July 19 1920

Oversized volume 32. July 27 1920 - May 15 1922. Includes some letters by Hoxie's                                     colleague J.R. Carpenter.

Oversized volume 33. May 18 1922 - October 10 1924

Oversized volume 34. October 22 1924 - January 30 1930


Sub-series 5: Elizabeth (Hazard) Sturges letters from Rowland G. Hazard II

Box 7, folder 21a. 1890-1917




Series 2: Subject Files

The subject files are divided into seven sub-series: family; public service and associations; scrapbooks; property; business and legal files; publications, addresses and essays; and miscellaneous.


Sub-series 1: Family

Miscellaneous material relating to Mary P.B. Hazard and immediate family.

Box 7, folder 22. "A Few Memories of an Old and Lasting Friendship". Memoir by M.E. Powell re Hazard family circa 1850-1870, written for RGH II in 1915.

Box 7, folder 23. Cast of characters for family play, circa 1900

Box 7, folder 24. Christmas cards and celebrations, 1894-1917

Box 7, folder 25. Genealogical notes - Gibson family

Box 7, folder 26. Genealogical notes - Pierrepont family

Box 7, folder 27. Hazard, Mary P.B. - Address book, circa 1935

Box 7, folder 28. Hazard, Mary P.B. - Affidavit by Caroline Hazard re estate, 6/14/1937, including detailed reminiscences.

Box 7, folder 29. Hazard, Mary P.B. - Automobile registration, 1929.

Box 7, folder 30. Hazard, Mary P.B. - Child-rearing memoranda, 1881-1885

Box 7, folder 31. Hazard, Mary P.B. - Memoirs, undated, re 1881-1901. 126 pages.

Box 7, folder 32. Hazard, Mary P.B. - Memorials, 1936

Box 7, folder 33. National Cyclopedia of American Biography subscription, 1902

Box 7, folder 34. Travel - European Trip, 1914


Sub-series 2: Public service and associations

Subject files on political topics and non-profit organizations. Hazard may not have even belonged to some of these organizations, but seems to have saved circulars sent to him from any source.

Box 7, folder 35. Agricultural Federation of Rhode Island, 1905

Box 7, folder 36. Alpha Delta Phi (Brown University), 1913-1917

Box 7, folder 37. American Free Trade League, 1910-1911

Box 7, folder 38. American Library Association, 1901-1906

Box 7, folder 39. American Missionary Association, 1899-1900

Box 7, folder 40. American Ornithologists Union, 1901-1917

Box 7, folder 41. American Peace Society, 1903-1908.

Box 7, folder 42. American Protective Tariff League, 1901-1908

Box 7, folder 43. American Rights League, 1916-1917

Box 7, folder 44. Anti-Tuberculosis Association, 1910-1914

Box 7, folder 45. Association for the Protection of the Adirondacks, 1904-1909

Box 7, folder 46. Atlantic Deeper Waterways Association, 1910

Box 7, folder 47. Audubon Society, 1909-1917

Box 7, folder 48. "Boston Meeting to Discuss Labor Conditions" - Notebook, circa 1905

Box 7, folder 49. Brown University Boat Club - Lecture course treasurer's records, 1876

Box 7, folder 50. Brown University Club, 1905-1910

Box 7, folder 51. Century Association, 1917

Box 7, folder 52. City Club, 1904-1906

Box 7, folder 53. Civic Union of Narragansett Pier, 1908-1909

Box 7, folder 54. Democratic Party - Signed depositions by four South Kingstown men who claimed to have been bribed to vote for the Democrats, 1909.

Box 7, folder 55. Federation of Churches and Christian Workers, 1910-1913

Box 7, folder 56. Franklin Institute of Pennsylvania, 1908-1915

Box 7, folder 57. Graduate Club Association, 1902-1917

Box 7, folder 58. Hope Club, 1907-1917

Box 7, folder 59. Indianapolis Monetary Convention, 1899-1908

Box 8, folder 1. Joint Missionary Campaign, 1909

Box 8, folder 2. Laymen's Missionary Movement, 1909-1910

Box 8, folder 3. Lincoln Centenary Committee, 1907-1909

Box 8, folder 4. Lincoln Party of Rhode Island, 1906-1907

Box 8, folder 5. Men and Religion Forward Movement, 1912

Box 8, folder 6. Narragansett Pier Reading Room, 1910-1913

Box 8, folder 7. National Civic Federation, 1913

Box 8, folder 8. National Geographic Society, 1905-1913

Box 8, folder 9. National Photography Library certificate, 1906

Box 8, folder 10. National Society For Promotion of Industrial Society, 1909-1912

Box 8, folder 11. Neighborhood Guild, 1904-1917

Box 8, folder 12. Peace Dale arson investigation, 1901

Box 8, folder 13. Peace Dale High School construction accounts and contracts, 1910-1911

Box 8, folder 14. Peace Dale Literary and Improvement Society - undated list of proposed names of roads for Peace Dale

Box 8, folder 15. Peace Dale Sunday School - Christmas, 1894-1899

Box 8, folder 16. Peace Dale Sunday School - Plays, 1903-1905

Box 8, folder 17. Playground Recreation Association, 1914-1915

Box 8, folder 18. Political circulars, 1908-1918

Box 8, folder 19. Providence Chamber of Commerce, 1909-1917

Box 8, folder 20. Rhode Island Historical Society, 1910-1917

Box 8, folder 21. Rhode Island Horticultural Society, 1902-1916

Box 8, folder 22. Rhode Island Hospital, 1904-1905

Box 8, folder 23. Rhode Island State Sanatarium - Trustees' minute book, 1907-1910

Box 8, folder 24. Rhode Island Sunday School Association, 1902-1909

Box 8, folder 25. Rhode Island Sunday School Association, 1910-1912

Box 8, folder 26. Rhode Island Sunday School Association, 1913-1917

Box 8, folder 27. Rhode Island Tax Reform Association, 1909

Box 8, folder 28. South Kingstown - Printer's proof of etchings of various Hazard gifts, ca.             1909

Box 8, folder 29. South Kingstown Health League, 1905-1909

Box 8, folder 30. South Kingstown High School history, 1899

Box 8, folder 31. University Club (Providence), 1910-1917

Box 8, folder 32. University Club (New York), 1910-1917

Box 8, folder 33. Washington County Fair, 1905-1915

Box 8, folder 34. World War One circulars, 1917-1918

Box 8, folder 35. Young Women's Christian Association, 1909-1913


Sub-series 3: Scrapbooks

These scrapbooks are filled mostly with newspaper clippings of interest to Hazard, and invitations and programs from events he had attended.

Box 13, volume 1. Scrapbook 1889-1898

Box 13, volume 2. Scrapbook 1899-1906

Box 13, volume 3. Scrapbook 1907

Oversized volume 35. Scrapbook, 1907-1915

Box 13, folder 1. Unbound fragment of scrapbook, 1914-1915


Sub series 4: Property

Deeds, leases, financial records and correspondence relating to maintenance or sale of property owned by Hazard.

Box 8, folder 36. California - Santa Barbara - Mission Hill improvements contract, 1916

Box 8, folder 37. Missouri - St. Louis - Gus Funk property, North Broadway, 1899-1910

Box 8, folder 38. New York - Syracuse - Memoranda, 1888-1891

Box 8, folder 39. Rhode Island - Narragansett - Saunderstown - Gardiner-Robinson farm leases and correspondence, 1890-1917

Box 8, folder 40. Rhode Island - Narragansett - Leases from Orin Kenyon, 1913-1916

Box 8, folder 41. Rhode Island - Narragansett - Miscellaneous accounts, 1884-1920

Box 8, folder 42. Rhode Island - Providence - Office space lease, 1910-1912

Box 8, folder 43. Rhode Island - Providence - Cranston Street, 1912-1913

Box 8, folder 44. Rhode Island - Providence - 119 Governor / Dexter family

Box 8, folder 45. Rhode Island - South Kingstown - Bond from Prisco DiPietro re celebration at Walnut Grove, 1911.

Box 8, folder 46. Rhode Island - South Kingstown - "Dower House" construction, 1911 (possibly Scallop Shell?)

Box 8, folder 47. Rhode Island - South Kingstown - Harrison G. Noka lease, 1912-1914

Box 8, folder 48. Rhode Island - South Kingstown - Holly House silver inventory, 8/26/1908

Box 8, folder 49. Rhode Island - South Kingstown - Holly House detailed appraisal, 1912

Box 8, folder 50. Rhode Island - South Kingstown - Holly House, misc., 1916

Box 8, folder 51. Rhode Island - South Kingstown - Holly House detailed appraisal, 5/3/1929

Box 8, folder 52. Rhode Island - South Kingstown - Oakwoods account book, 1894-1897

Box 8, folder 53. Rhode Island - South Kingstown - Oakwoods fire, 1912

Box 8, folder 54. Rhode Island - South Kingstown - South County Golf Club, 1899-1903

Box 8, folder 55. Rhode Island - South Kingstown - Tefft lease, 1881-1910

Box 8, folder 56. Rhode Island - South Kingstown - Misc., 1884-1928


Sub-series 5: Business and legal files

These files mostly relate to companies that Hazard had invested in. Although there is some original correspondence, the bulk consists of circular letters and printed reports.

Box 9, folder 1. Agreements:

With grandfather RGH I for "attending to such affairs as his grandfather may entrust to him", 2/22/1884

                                    Re admission into Peace Dale Manufacturing Company, 4/20/1880

Box 9, folder 2. Allied Chemical Company and Dye Corporation, 1900-1921

Box 9, folder 3. American Bell Telephone Co. contracts, 1879-1887

Box 9, folder 4. American Alkali Company, 1899

Box 9, folder 5. American Sugar Refining Company, 1903-1912

Box 9, folder 6. American Woolen Company, 1897-1901

Box 9, folder 7. Armstrong Carriage Co. - Agreements, insurance, statements, 1904-1918

Box 9, folder 8. Armstrong Carriage Co. - Paid bills, 1900-1918

Box 9, folder 9. Atlantic Fruit Steamship Co., 1912-1913

Box 9, folder 10. Baring Brothers and Company, 1894-1895

Box 9, folder 11. Belanger’s Inc., 1910-1912

Box 9, folder 12. Berton, Griscom and Co., 1910-1912

Box 9, folder 13. Briquette Coal Company, 1899

Box 9, folder 14. By Products Coke and Solvay Processing Company, 1913-1917

Box 9, folder 15. Cooperative Savings Society of Connecticut, 1900-1912

Box 9, folder 16. Hudson Highland Suspension Bridge Co., 1890

Box 9, folder 17. Index Visible Company / Irving Fisher, 1906-1913

Box 9, folder 18. Industrial Trust Company, 1893-1903

Box 9, folder 19. International Automobile League / Northland Rubber, 1913

Box 9, folder 20. J.A. Armstrong Carriage Co. - Accounts on note, 1902-1909

Box 9, folder 21. “Long Arm” System Co. / W.B. Cowles, 1892-1899

Box 9, folder 22. “Long Arm” System Co. / W.B. Cowles, 1901-1902

Box 9, folder 23. “Long Arm” System Co. / W.B. Cowles, 1903-1908

Box 9, folder 24. “Long Arm” System Co. / W.B. Cowles, 1909-1911

Box 9, folder 25. Los Angeles Soap Company. Contract with E.P. Vernon and Robert Heron to supply copra or palm nut meats, 1916

Box 10, folder 1. Lumber, 1899, 1911-1915

Box 10, folder 2. Merrill process for rail restoration, 1900

Box 10, folder 3. Mine La Motte and related Missouri firms, 1897-1904

Box 10, folder 4. M.T Stevens Company, 1918

Box 10, folder 5. Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company, 1899

Box 10, folder 6. Powers of attorney, 1885-1917

Box 10, folder 7. Providence Gas Company, 1912-1915

Box 10, folder 8. Providence Warehouse Company, 1915

Box 10, folder 9. Rotary Ring Spinning Company, 1911-1914

Box 10, folder 10. Semet Solvay Company - Dasher Washer, 1899-1900

Box 10, folder 11. South American Construction Company, 1891-1916

Box 10, folder 12. Split Rock Cable Road Company, 1908

Box 10, folder 13. Steamboat Company of Rhode Island, 1899

Box 10, folder 14. Vernon & Company, 1917-1918

Box 10, folder 15. Wabash, Chester and Western Railroad, 1899-1900

Box 10, folder 16. Wisconsin Central Railroad Co., 1898-1901


Sub-series 6: Publications, addresses and essays

Box 10, folder 17. Address at dedication of school in South Kingstown, 1911

Box 10, folder 18. Address to Colby Club re farm by-products, 4/7/1904

Box 10, folder 19. Address to Rhode Island State College on Prussian War, 2/12/1915

Box 10, folder 20. "Barsetport" (short story) - Rejection letters from publishers, 1887

Box 10, folder 21. Breeding Habits of the King Penguin, undated

Box 10, folder 22. Early Colonial Days in Barbados (address to Society of Colonial Wars, re Gibson family), undated

Box 10, folder 23. Great Swamp Fight oration - Drafts, 1913

Box 10, folder 24. Great Swamp Fight oration - Notes and correspondence, 1906-1914

Box 10, folder 25. Jonny Cake Papers - Accounts, 1915

Box 10, folder 26. Jonny Cake Papers - Accounts, 1916

Box 10, folder 27. Jonny Cake Papers - Advertisements, 1915

Box 10, folder 28. Jonny Cake Papers - Correspondence, January - February 1915

Box 10, folder 29. Jonny Cake Papers - Correspondence, March - June 1915

Box 10, folder 30. Jonny Cake Papers - Correspondence, July - October 1915

Box 10, folder 31. Jonny Cake Papers - Correspondence, November - December 1915

Box 10, folder 32. Jonny Cake Papers - Correspondence, January - February 1916

Box 10, folder 33. Jonny Cake Papers - Correspondence, March - June 1916

Box 10, folder 34. Jonny Cake Papers - Correspondence, July - September 1916

Box 10, folder 35. Jonny Cake Papers - Correspondence, October - December 1916

Box 10, folder 36. Jonny Cake Papers - Correspondence, 1917-1919

Box 10, folder 37. Jonny Cake Papers - Correspondence, 1921-1926

Box 10, folder 38. Jonny Cake Papers - Footnotes 1915

Box 10, folder 39. Jonny Cake Papers - Illustrations 1915

Box 10, folder 40. Jonny Cake Papers - Map

Box 10, folder 41. Letter, C.E. Norton to Lowell --- , 1854 (prepared for publication by RGH II)

Box 10, folder 42. "Robin Hood Once was a Wait" (Sunday School play) - Corr., 1910-1912

Box 10, folder 43. "The Steel Flea", 1916 (a Russian fable printed as a fund-raiser for the Jonny Cake Papers).

Box 10, folder 44. Washington County Fair addresses - Notes, 1900-1914

Box 10, folder 45. Washington County Fair address, 1915 (five drafts)


Sub-series 7: Miscellaneous personal

Box 11, folder 1. Archaeology files, 1910-1912

Box 11, folder 2. Archaeology files, 1913-1914

Box 11, folder 3. Archaeology files, 1915-1916

Box 11, folder 4. Archaeology files, 1917-1919

Box 11, folder 5. Book collecting - Correspondence and brochures, 1897-1914

Box 11, folder 6. Calling cards, undated

Box 11, folder 7. Camping trips - Letters, supply lists, etc., mostly Maine, 1911-1916

Box 11, folder 8. Diary, January 1 - February 2 1871

                        Mostly re infatuation with a girl named Edie. Also memoranda, 1871-1874.

Box 11, folder 9. Diary, September 18 1876 - September 20 1877.

                        Travel in Europe. With register of letters and accounts.

Box 11, folder 10. Diary, May 18 - June 15 1877

                        Regarding studies of wool manufacturing processes in France.

Box 11, folder 11. Diaries, 1896-1900. 5 volumes.

                        Pocket diaries with brief but regular entries.

Box 11, folder 12. Diaries, 1901-1905. 5 volumes.

                        Pocket diaries with brief sporadic entries.

Box 11, folder 13. Diary, February 3 - December 31 1906.

                        Very sporadic, and more like a memorandum book in places.

Box 11, folder 14. Diary, January 7 1907 - July 16 1917

                        Very sporadic; some entries out of order.

Box 11, folder 15. Diaries / memorandum books, 1906-1908. 3 volumes.

Box 11, folder 16. Diaries / memorandum books, 1909-1912. 3 volumes.

Box 11, folder 17. Diaries / memorandum books, 1913-1916. 4 volumes. Also diary, unbound, 10/1913 (Peace Dale) and 1/1917 - 6/1917 (Santa Barbara).

Box 11, folder 18. Engraving of bird's eggs from Harpers Weekly, 10/23/1869

Box 11, folder 19. Golf, 1914

Box 11, folder 20. Latin workbook, 1865

Box 11, folder 21. Log book of the yacht Halcyon, 1876-1881

Box 11, folder 22. Medical instructions, circa 1915

Box 11, folder 23. Memorandum books, 1871; 1874-1876.

Box 11, folder 24. Memorandum books, 1877; 1882-1883; 1884

Box 11, folder 25. Memorandum books, 1885-1886; 1887; 1888; 1888; 1890

Box 11, folder 26. Memorandum books, 1892-1894; 1894-1895; 1899; 1907-1908

Box 11, folder 27. Memorials, 1918

Box 11, folder 28. Mowry & Goff's School - 1872 graduation program and memorabilia

Box 11, folder 29. Name change, 1869 - Copy of General Assembly resolution

Box 11, folder 30. Peace Dale Base Ball Club agreement, 1880

Box 11, folder 31. Rail passes, 1890-1917

Box 11, folder 32. "Roosevelt's Creed" (satirical), circa 1912

Box 11, folder 33. Stories and poems, author unknown, 1905-1918

Box 11, folder 34. Travel - List of all 30 trans-Atlantic steamships traveled on, 1869-1914

Box 11, folder 35. Valentine poem, 1880

Box 11, folder 35a. Wedding certificate, 1880



Series 3: Financial

These files are divided into five sub-series: account books; Mary P.B. Hazard financial records; taxes; accounts with Peace Dale Manufacturing; and miscellaneous.


Sub-Series 1: Account books

Includes books kept by Rowland G. Hazard II's estate through 1943, when the estate's bank account was closed out to the Hazard Trust (see subgroup 46).


Accounts receivable journal:

Box 11, folder 36. March 31, 1881 - Dec 1,1909 (includes some loans by RGH I and RH II)


Balances:

Oversized Box 2, folder 6. Balance sheets, 1899-1917

Oversized Box 2, folder 7. Balance sheets, 1918-1930 (estate)

Oversized volume 36. Trial balance, 1900-1911

Oversized volume 37. Trial balance, 1912-1917

Oversized volume 38. Trial balance, 1919-1928 (estate)


Bank account books:

Box 11, folder 37. R.I. Hospital Trust, 1886-1904, etc.

                                    Pages 1-17:    Rowland G. Hazard I bank accounts, 1881-1888

                                    Page 18:         Rowland Hazard II Christmas accounts, 1890-1893

                                    Pages 19-21:  RGH II "public objects" account, 1891-1896

                                    Pages 22-79:  RGH II bank accounts, 1901-1904

                                    Pages 80-173: RGH II bank accounts, 1886-1900

                                    Pages 174-186: Income ledger, 1886-1892

Box 11, folder 38. R.I. Hospital Trust, 1904-1910

Box 11, folder 39. R.I. Hospital Trust, 1911-1916

Box 11, folder 40. R.I. Hospital Trust, 1916-1921 (includes estate)

Box 12, folder 1. R.I. Hospital Trust, 1921-1943 (estate)


Cash books:

Box 12, folder 2. 1867-1873; 1874-1879; 1879-1881

Box 12, folder 3. 1900-1904

Box 12, folder 4. 1904-1910

Box 12, folder 5. 1910-1913

Box 12, folder 6. 1913-1917

Box 14, folder 1. 1917-1921 (includes estate)

Box 14, folder 2. 1921-1925 (estate)


Inventory books:

Oversized volume 39. 1899-1918


Journals:

Box 14, folder 3. 1899-1911

Box 14, folder 4. 1911-1918

Box 14, folder 5. 1918-1930 (estate)


Ledgers:

Box 14, folder 6. 1899 - 1918

Box 14, folder 7. 1918 - 1928

Oversized Box 2, folder 8. Draft ledger, 1899-1918



Subseries 2: Mary P.B. Hazard financial records

Rowland G. Hazard II's widow initially paid her expenses from her husband's estate and various trust funds, and did not commence her own individual financial accounts until January 1 1923. Most of her real estate holdings were incorporated as Peace Dale Offices, Inc., in 1929 (see subgroup 37). Her personal financial accounts were closed on December 31 1931, when the Hazard Trust was formed (see subgroup 46), and she died in 1936.


Bank account books:

Box 14, folder 8. R.I. Hospital Trust savings account book, 1911-1925

Box 14, folder 9. R.I. Hospital Trust, 1923-1926

Box 14, folder 10. R.I. Hospital Trust, 1926-1931

Box 14, folder 11. Wakefield Trust Co., 1928-1931


Cash books:

Box 14, folder 12. 1923-1926

Box 14, folder 13. 1927-1930

Box 14, folder 14. 1930-1931


Deeds and agreements :

Box 15, folder 1. To Peace Dale Offices, 1932

Box 15, folder 2. Miscellaneous deeds, leases, and trust agreements, 1919-1929


Estate memoranda:

Box 15, folder 3. 1925-1933


Insurance records:

Box 15, folder 4. 1926-1935


Journals:

Box 15, folder 5. 1923-1928, 1931

Box 15, folder 6. 1929-1930


Tax returns, federal:

Box 15, folder 7. 1915-1932 (missing 1919, 1920, 1926)


Miscellaneous papers:

Box 15, folder 8. 1918-1922

Box 15, folder 9. 1923-1924

Box 15, folder 10. 1925

Box 15, folder 11. 1926-1927

Box 15, folder 12. 1928-1929

Box 15, folder 13. 1930-1934



Sub-Series 3: Tax returns

This series includes correspondence, supplementary schedules and notes in addition to copies of federal tax schedules filed.

Box 16, folder 1. 1913

Box 16, folder 2. 1914

Box 16, folder 3. 1915

Box 16, folder 4. 1916

Box 16, folder 5. 1917-1918


Sub-series 4: Accounts with Peace Dale Manufacturing Company


Accounts:

Box 16, folder 6. 1901-1903

Box 16, folder 7. 1904-1906

Box 16, folder 8. 1907-1909

Box 16, folder 9. 1910-1912

Box 16, folder 10. 1913-1916

Box 16, folder 11. 1917-1918


Expenses:

Box 16, folder 12. 1912

Box 16, folder 13. 1913

Box 16, folder 14. 1914-1915

Box 16, folder 15. 1916-1918


Sub-series 5: Miscellaneous financial papers

Oversized volume 40. Copy book of accounts and memoranda, 1912-1919

Box 17, folder 1. Accounts as attorney for E.E.V. Blake and E.W. Blake Jr., 1881-1889.

Box 17, folder 2. Accounts with estate of Rowland Hazard II, 1899-1917

Box 17, folder 3. Estate correspondence, etc., 1918-1919

Box 17, folder 4. Estate correspondence, etc., 1920-1926

Box 17, folder 5. Estate tax returns, 1921-1930

Box 17, folder 6. Estate of Sarah G. Gamble, 1909-1910

Box 17, folder 7. Mortgage of James F. Thomas, 1892

Box 17, folder 8. M.P.B. Hazard in account with R.G. Hazard, 1904-1905

Box 17, folder 9. Russian bonds, 1916


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Subjects:


This listing is not a complete index to the correspondence. Only a casual examination of the voluminous correspondence files has been made. This list shows only that handful of important correspondents that were noticed over the course of routine processing, and there are undoubtedly many more.


Aldrich, Nelson W. (1841-1915). Letter dated 3/21/1903 in Indianapolis Monetary Convention file in series 2, subseries 2. Copies of correspondence from 12/1907 re suggested establishment of a Postal Bank in correspondence file.


Archaeology Notes and correspondence re amateur interest in archaeology, 1910-1919, in series 2, subseries 7.


Bajnotti, Paul. Donor of Carrie Tower to Brown University. Letter, 11/5/1905, accompanying a gift (a facsimile of a bust by Donatello) in appreciation of Hazard's role in construction of Carrie Tower.


Baseball. Peace Dale Base Ball Club agreement, 1880, in Box 11, folder 30. Also frequent mention of baseball expenses in cash book, 1867-1876 in box 12, folder 2.


Brown, John Nicholas (1861-1900). Letter, January 1, 1891.


Brown University Letter from Paul Bajnotti, 11/5/1905, accompanying a gift (a facsimile of a bust by Donatello) in appreciation of Hazard's role in construction of Carrie Tower. Brown University Boat Club lecture course treasurer's records, 1876, in series 2, subseries 2. Brown University Club mailings, 1905-1910, in series 2, subseries 2.


Bushnell, Mary P. See Hazard, Mary P. (Bushnell).


Camping - Maine. Folder of correspondence and supply lists, 1911-1916, in series 2, subseries 7.


Diaries - 1871-1917. 24 volumes of diaries / memoranda books, mostly very sporadic and uninformative.


Europe - Description and travel. Folder re 1914 trip in series 2, subseries 1. Diary of 1876-1877 trip, and list of 30 steamship taken 1869-1914, in series 2, subseries 7.


Gamble, Sarah C. (1840-1909). Accounts of Hazard as her trustee, 1909-1910.


Gibson family. Folder of genealogical notes in series 2, subseries 1. Also "Early Colonial Days in Barbados" (an address to Society of Colonial Wars, re Gibson family), undated, in series 2, subseries 6.


Great Swamp Fight Notes, correspondence and drafts re 1913 oration, 1906-1914.


Halcyon (yacht). Log book, 1876-1881, in series 2, subseries 7.


Hazard, Caroline (1856-1945). Sister and president of Wellesley College. Frequent correspondent. Dates include 10/12/1889, 11/25/1895, and several from 1907 to 1909; there are probably more. Also a file of transcripts of letters to and from Caroline dated 1901-1910.


Hazard, Frederick R. (1858-1917). Brother. Frequent correspondent, especially re Solvay Process affairs from circa 1883 onward.


Hazard, Joseph P. (1807-1892). Great-uncle. Letter, 7/5/1889.


Hazard, Margaret A. (Rood) (1834-1895). Mother. Frequent letters circa 1883-1895.


Hazard, Mary P. (Bushnell) (1859-1936) Wife of Rowland G. Hazard II. This collection contains one box of her letters received, 1898-1936, mostly from her son Pierre (series 1, subseries 3); one box of her financial records as a widow, 1923-1931 (series 3, subseries 2); a lengthy memoir re the period from 1881 to 1901 (series 2, subseries 1); and other personal papers scattered throughout the collection. Many of the family letters in the Rowland G. Hazard II correspondence files are actually addressed jointly to both Rowland and Mary.


Hazard, Rowland II (1829-1898). Father. Very frequent correspondent and business associate from 1880s through 1898. Also some material as executor of the estate of Rowland Hazard II, though most of the estate material is in subgroup 6.


Hazard, Rowland G. (1801-1888). Grandfather. Rowland G. Hazard II was very active in assisting with his grandfather's diverse and substantial investments from about 1879 to 1888. There are frequent letters from the elder Rowland G., especially in 1885. Also, "A Few Memories of an Old and Lasting Friendship", a memoir by M.E. Powell re Hazard family circa 1850-1870, written for RGH II in 1915, in series 2, subseries 1. Also, banking records 1881-1888 inserted in front of grandson's bank book in series 3, subseries 1.


xHazard, Theodore P. see Hazard, Rowland G. II (1855-1918)


Hazard, Thomas P. (1892-1968). Son. Hundreds of letters to mother Mary P.B. Hazard in series 1, subseries 3, generally signed "Pierre." Also letters to father from 1902 to 1917, especially from 1915 to 1917.


Hoxie, Dexter W. (1864-1943). Hazard family secretary. Collection includes five letter books kept as family secretary from 1907 to 1930, in series 1, subseries 4.


Hughes, Charles E. (1862-1948) Frequent letters providing legal advice, including 5/29/1899.


Jonny-Cake Papers Extensive files re reprinting of Thomas R. Hazard's Jonny-Cake Papers in 1915, in series 2, subseries 6.


Log books. Log of the yacht Halcyon, 1876-1881.


Merrill, Mary I. (1854-1933). Letters to "Aunt Minnie" from Thomas P. Hazard dated 1903 to 1933 interspersed through series 1, subseries 3.


Mine la Motte. Correspondence and files re Mine la Motte and related Missouri operations circa 1880-1904.


Mowry & Goff's English and Classical High School. 1872 graduation program and memorabilia in series 2, subseries 7.


Narragansett Pier Railroad Company. Hazard served as president of this company, which is discussed intermittently in his correspondence.


Peace Dale High School (South Kingstown, R.I.) Construction accounts and contracts, 1910-1911, in series 2, subseries 2.


Peace Dale Manufacturing Company (South Kingstown, R.I.). Hazard served as president of the company from 1898 to 1918. His papers contain his personal accounts with the company, which is also discussed in his correspondence.


Pierrepont family. Folder of genealogical notes in series 2, subseries 1.


Pothier, Aram J. (1854-1928). R.I. Governor. Letter dated June 27, 1910 in "Public Service" file on the Atlantic Deeper Waterways Association


Powel, Mary E. (1846-1931). "A Few Memories of an Old and Lasting Friendship". Memoir re Hazard family circa 1850-1870, written for RGH II in 1915, in series 2, subseries 1.


Rhode Island - Politics and government - Signed depositions by four South Kingstown men who claimed to have been bribed to vote for the Democrats, 1909, in series 2, subseries 2.


Rhode Island Sunday School Association Three folders of notes, 1902-1917, in series 2, subseries 2.


Solvay Process Company Hazard served as vice-president of the company from 1891 to 1918. It is discussed frequently in his correspondence.


South Kingstown, R.I. - Social life and customs. Extensive collection of papers of South Kingstown family, 1869-1936.


South Kingstown High School (South Kingstown, R.I.) History, 1899, in series 2, subseries 2. Address at dedication, 1911, in series 2, subseries 6.


Sturges, Elizabeth (Hazard) (1883-1954). Two folders of letters from Rowland G. Hazard II to his daughter Elizabeth Sturges, 1890-1917, in series 1, subseries 5. The letter dated May 26 1903 gives particular insight into the Hazard family dynamics.


Washington County Fair. Notes for addresses delivered, 1900-1915


World War, 1914-1918. Circulars re war, 1917-1918, in series 2, subseries 2. Correspondence with son in army, 1916-1918; and with English friends, 1914-1918.


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