Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 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. YV. B. Hnzen, 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 Bev. 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-

arv pall-bearers were Gen. Benet, Chief of Ordnance; .Adjutant General Drum, Paymaster General Rochester, Quartermaster General Holabird, Surgeon General Moore and General Duanfe, Chief of Engineers. The active pall-bearers were eight volunteers from the Signal Corps. The inti rment 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 tho head of the weather bureau up to the day of bis death. He was a native of Vermont, and was 07 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 lie 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 Chickamanga. 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 Infahtry. During the Franco-German war he was employed in studying the. education and characteristics of the French and German troops, and upou his return to the United States embodied bis 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 th? positionuof cfcM Signal Officer.