16 Facts About Hazard Stevens

Hazard Stevens was an American military officer, mountaineer, politician and writer.

Hazard Stevens received the Medal of Honor for his service in the Union army during the American Civil War at the Battle of Fort Huger.

In 1854, his father became the first governor of the new Washington Territory and the Hazard Stevens family moved to Olympia, Washington.

Hazard Stevens was wounded and his father, by then a general, was killed in the Battle of Chantilly on September 1,1862.

Hazard Stevens was mustered out of the Union Army volunteers on September 19,1865.

Hazard Stevens then met P B Van Trump, who was working as the private secretary to Marshall F Moore, the seventh governor of the territory.

Hazard Stevens joined the bar in 1871, representing the Northern Pacific Railroad Company in their prosecution of lumber theft cases.

In 1874, Stevens investigated British claims on the San Juan Islands at the request of President Ulysses S Grant.

Hazard Stevens then entered the Massachusetts state legislature as a reformer in 1885.

Hazard Stevens successfully lobbied for the preservation of Boston's Old State House.

Hazard Stevens was unsuccessful in a run for the United States Congress.

In 1887 Hazard Stevens was admitted to the Rhode Island Society of the Cincinnati by right of his descent from Lieutenant Colonel Daniel Lyman.

Hazard Stevens climbed Mount Rainier a second time in 1905 on a trip organized by The Mazamas, an Oregon mountaineering club.

Hazard Stevens established the Cloverfields Dairy Farm in Olympia, Washington in 1916.

Later in life, Hazard Stevens wrote The Life of Isaac Ingalls Hazard Stevens, a noted biography of his father in addition to many papers on the Civil War.

Hazard Stevens died unmarried shortly thereafter and is interred at Island Cemetery in Newport, Rhode Island.