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Chronicles of Oklahoma Volume 20, No. 4 December, 1942 GENERAL WILLIAM BABCOCK HAZEN by Carolyn Thomas Foreman. Page 322 Few army officers gave more varied and valuable service to Oklahoma than William Babcock Hazen, and yet there is no marker in the state to honor his memory. This early day hero, born in West Hartford, Vermont, September 27, 1830, the son of Stillman and Sophrona Fenno Hazen, was reared in Hiram, Ohio, where he met and became the friend of James A. Garfield, then president of Hiram Eclectic Institute. At the age of twenty-one Hazen received an appointment to the...

Major Joel Haworth Elliott (b. October 27, 1840, d. November 27, 1868) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joel Haworth Elliott (son of Mark Elliott and Mary S. Haworth) was born October 27, 1840 in Centre Township, Wayne County, Indiana, and died November 27, 1868 in White Rock, on the Washita River, Indian Territory. Notes for Joel Haworth Elliott: Joel Haworth Elliott was born to a stanch pacifist Quaker family in Wayne County, Indiana and lived on the family farm until the age of 21. He was recorded in the 1850 and 1860 U.S. census records living on the family farm in Centre Township in...