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Herbert Torrence Hazelton [Hazleton]
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Architect, building contractor.
Born at Lima, Ohio on 10 August 1868, one of two sons of Franklin B. Hazleton (1842-1910) and Ida L. Hurd (1843-1886), he was educated at Chicago, Illinois. He worked as an architect at Chicago for some years before being appointed official architect for Cook County and the State of Illinois. While there, he became associated in business with Claes Sanford Walin. They moved to Winnipeg in 1910 and worked as building contractors in the firm of Hazelton and Walin [Hazleton and Walin].
He was married twice, first to Ella Workman (1868-1897) with whom he had a son, Frank Benjamin Hazleton (1892-1966, husband of Marion Jane Hay). He then married Alice Maud Pratt (1874-1958). They lived in Apartment 11 of the Anvers Apartments at the time of his death. He was active in the Winnipeg Builders’ Exchange (President, 1919) and was one of the organizers, along with Donald Henderson Bain and George Thomas Koester, of the Niakwa Country Club and served as its first President (1923-1935). He served on the board for the Shriners’ Hospital for Crippled Children. He was a member of the Masons (Scottish Rite), Khartum Shriners, and Carleton Club.
He died at the Winnipeg General Hospital on 8 September 1939 and was buried in the Elmwood Cemetery. His pallbearers were Dr. W. Taylor, George Thomas Koester, Arthur Chapman, Harry Clarke, Findlay Fraser, and William Irish.
“Hazleton & Walin Limited,” Manitoba Free Press, 18 January 1919, page 70.
“Sympathic strike must be called off,” Manitoba Free Press, 23 June 1919, page 2.
Marriage registration [Frank Benjamin Hazleton, Marion Jane Hay], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
“Factory contract is awarded to local firm,” Manitoba Free Press, 19 March 1931, page 13.
Death registration [Herbert Torrence Hazleton], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
“H. T. Hazleton, builder, dies,” Winnipeg Tribune, 9 September 1939, page 24.
Obituary, Winnipeg Tribune, 11 September 1939, page 16.
“Funeral,” Winnipeg Tribune, 12 September 1939, page 16.
Obituary [Alice Maud Hazleton], Winnipeg Free Press, 29 October 1958, page 35.
Obituary [Frank B. Hazleton], Winnipeg Free Press, 21 April 1966, page 27.
Frank Benjamin Hazleton, FamilySearch.
This page was prepared by Rick Mutton and Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 16 November 2024
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