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Leslie P. Hazlett
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LESLIE P. HAZLETT, president of the Butler County National Bank, and a prominent representative of the important oil industry of this section, was born upon his parents'
farm in the neighboring county of Allegheny, in the year 1843. The parents, James and Margaret Hazlett, removed to Butler County, settling on the line of Connoquenessing and Forward Townships, where James Hazlett purchased a farm. Leslie P. Hazlett, being an ambitious youth, made the best of his educational opportunities, and after accompanying his parents to Butler County, he purchased a tract of fifty acres adjoining his father's farm, and subsequently purchased the parental homestead. He followed agriculture successfully for a number of years, but a large part of his ample fortune has been derived from the oil industry, in which he is now a large operator, being a member of the well known firm of Hazlett & McCullough. His farm property, which has proved one of his chief sources of wealth, lies within the Hundred Foot Field operated by the Forest Oil Company, the Columbia Oil Company, Abrams & Company and Elias Barnhart. In later years Mr. Hazlett's business experience has extended into other channels, and he is now the capable president of one of Butler County's most important financial institutions. A Republican in politics, a part of his time has been devoted to the public service. He has been one of the school directors of his township for the last twenty-two years, and he has been a justice of the peace for five years. For forty years he has been a member of the Masonic fraternity, belonging to Harmony Lodge, No. 429, F. & A. M. Formerly a Presbyterian in religion, he later united with the Methodist Church. Mr. Hazlett was married, in 1870, to Barbara Ziegler, a daughter of Jonas and Elizabeth Ziegler, of Harmony, Butler County. Mrs. Hazlett died in 1887, having been the mother of five children, namely: Letitia, who married Clinton Henshaw, resides on Mr. Hazlett's old home in Forward Township, and has two children — Ralph Leslie and Grace Ethel; George W., who is bookkeeper in the Butler County National Bank, where he has been employed for fourteen years; Lizzie, who resides with her father; Frank L., deceased; and Maggie, who married C. A. Ensminger, resides in Butler, and has one child — Helen Elizabeth. Source: 20th century history of Butler and Butler County, Pa., and respresentative citizens, McKee, James A., 1909, page 617. |
