Hazelton, Emma (1858-1918)

HAZELTON

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Date: 1/1/2024 at 18:09:50

Emma Higham Hazelton
(April 23, 1858 – August 1, 1918)

Mrs. A. S. Hazelton
Mrs. Emma Higham Hazelton, daughter of Abel Highman and Anna Pierce Eaton, was born April 23, 1858 at Keokuk, Iowa. Abel Higham came from an English Quaker family and emigrated in an early day from Bolton, England. He settled first in Philadelphia where he married Anna Pierce Eaton, who descended from Francis Eaton of Mayflower fame, Abraham Pierce of Plymouth Colony, and Rounsville and Howland families, and was connected with many of the most prominent families of Colonial times. In 1851 Mr. and Mrs. Higham located in Keokuk, where they made their home and both found their final resting place. Mrs. Hazelton’s oldest brother, Richard Higham, was the only soldier killed at the battle of Fort Donaldson, in Co. A, Second Iowa Regiment. When a boy a lasting friendship was formed between Richard Higham and Mark Twain, which only ended with the former’s death. In 1856, he with a number of the most prominent young men of Keokuk, formed the Gate City Literary Institute which founded the magnificent public library of that city.
May 16, 1888, at Keokuk she was married to Arthur Sargent Hazelton, a promising young lawyer of Council Bluffs, and has made her home in that city ever since. Two sons were born to them, Charles Sargent and Paul Higham. Mrs. Hazelton has never been inclined to public life, and while she was for some years a member of the society and literary clubs, they have been rather an incident in her life then live issues. She is a member of the Council Bluffs Chapter of the D. A. R. and has traveled quite extensively in her own country, id deeply interested in public affairs, but is not an advocate of woman suffrage.
Source: Blue Book of Iowa Women, by Winona Evans Reeves, 1914, p.107