Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 January 1887 — THE LATE GEN. HAZEN. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE LATE GEN. HAZEN.

Buried with Military Honors in Oak Hill Cemetery, Washington. [Washington telegram.] The funeral of Gen. W. B. Hazen, late chief of the Signal Service, who died of diabetes a few days ago, took place from St. John’s Protestant Episcopal Church, on Thursday. The services were conducted by Rev. Dr. Leonard, rector of the church. A throng of distinguished people attended, including Secretary Endicott, Gen. Sheridan, and many prominent officers of the army and navy. The honor-

ary pall-bearers were Gen. Benet, Chief of Ordnance; * Adjutant General Drum, Paymaster General Rochester, Quartermaster General Holabird, Surgeon General Moore and General Duane, Chief of Engineers. The active pall-bearers were eight volunteers from the Signal Corps. The interment was made in Oak Hill Cemetery, with military honors. Gen. Hazen succeeded Gen. Meyer, the original “Old Probabilities,” as Chief Signal Officer in December, 1880, and continued at the head of the weather bureau up, to the day of his death. He was a native of Vermont, and was 57 years old. In 1851 he entered the military academy at West Point. Four years afterward he graduated at this institution, and was made brevet Second Lieutenant of the Fourth Infantry. Engaged during the next few years in fighting the' Indians of Texas, in 1859 he was made First Lieutenant by brevet. At the outbreak of the civil war he acted as Colonel of the Forty-first Ohio volunteers. In 1862 he was made Brigadier General of Volunteers, and Major by brevet in the regular army in 1863, a reward for his courage in the battle of Chickamauga. Successive promotions for distinguished services in several great battles led up to his being made, in March, 1865, a Major General, and one month later he was commissioned Major General of Volunteers, to rank from December 13, 1864. He was mustered out of the volunteer service in 1866, and subsequently served as Colonel of the Thirty-eighth Regular Infantry, and of the Sixth Infantry. Inuring the Franco-German war he was employed in studying the education and characteristics of the French and German troops, and upon his return to the United States embodied his observations on these subjects in a book entitled, “ School and Army of France and Germany.” In 1877 he was appointed military attache to the United States Legation at Vienna, and three years later to the position of chief Signed Officer.