Ohio County WV Archives Biographies.....Hazlett, Robert W. April 16, 1828 - September 2, 1899 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/wv/wvfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Connie Burkett marionwvusgwarch@gmail.com April 24, 2010, 9:46 pm Source: American Medical Biographies (1920) Author: Howard A. Kelly and Walter L. Burrage Pages 510-511 Hazlett, Robert W. (1828-1899). Robert W. Hazlett was born in Washington, Pennsylvania, April 16, 1828, his parents being Samuel and Sarah Johns Hazlett. His paternal grandparents, Robert Hazlett from Edinburgh, and Mary Caldwell Hazlett, daughter of Katherine Caldwell (nee Rene), a Huguenot, came to America in 1785. He had his college course at Washington, now Washington and Jefferson College, some years later receiving his A. M. He early evinced an interest in medicine and showed it by preparation of many specimens for the college lectures on anatomy and physiology by Dr. James King, a work for which he possessed natural artistic talent. He began to study medicine in Wheeling, West Virginia, with his cousin. Dr. R. H. Cummins, receiving his M. D. in 1851 from Jefferson Medical College, and taking a post-graduate course in Philadelphia, soon after settling in South Wheeling. In 1857 for recuperation he went into the mountains, and, always fond of geology, became interested in searching for coal and oil, and "located" and supervised the boring of the state's first productive oil well. In June, 1861, Hazlett again left practice, this time to enter the Union Army as surgeon of the second West Virginia Volunteer Infantry. In the autumn of 1862 he was appointed brigade-surgeon of Lathanis Independent Brigade, and in 1863 surgeon of the United States General Hospital at Grafton. The war over, Dr. Hazlett resumed practice in Wheeling, was very successful and ranked high among his fellows. He was president of the Ohio County Medical Society and president in 1893 of the State Medical Association. From its origin he was consulting physician to the City Hospital. Dr. Hazlett married Mary Elizabeth Hobbs, October 7, 1852, and had four sons and one daughter — Howard, Samuel, Edward, Robert, and Katherine. Dr. Hazlett died at his home in Wheeling, West Virginia, on September 2, 1899, after a year's illness with pernicious anemia. His writings, which were not numerous, are to be found in the transactions of the West Virginia State Medical Association. Samuel Lawrence Jepson. Additional Comments: NOTE: Death register of Ohio County WV 1899, Page 124, Line 191 give his place of birth as "Germany" Date of death: Sept 2 at age 71y-6m Cause: Old Age Occupation: Physician Death Register, Ohio County WV 1901, Page 158, Line 226 Mary E. Hazlett died Oct 16 at age 72y-0m-23d Marital Status: Widow Cause: Old Age This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/wvfiles/ File size: 3.1 Kb