The Founder
The firm was founded in 1850 by Edward Clarke Hazard, born April 4, 1831, at Mumford's Mills near Peacedale, Rhode Island; died February 2, 1905 at his home Shrewsbury Manor Shrewsbury, New Jersey. Hazard attended public schools in Narragansett, Rhode Island, and at age 18 went to New York City to enter a trade. There, "with horse and wagon, he became engaged at vending soap and fancy goods with B. T. Babbitt," particularly imported grocery items. Eventually, he opened his own grocery firm, which he called E. C. Hazard and Company. Frank Green was his original partner.
He lived in Greenwich Village, first at 22 Grove St., and then 36 Grove St in 1858 just before or after his second marriage, to Emily (Emma) Howe. They had two sons, Edward Howe Hazard.(born 1861) and Charles Hazard (born 1863). Emma died in May 1880, age 42, and Hazard married for the third time on November 23, 1880, to Florence (Frances) Adaline Frothingham of Charleston, Massachusetts.
Hazard had eight children with Florence, 5 sons and 3 daughters. The children were: Elmer Clarke Hazard, Bowdoin Frothingham Hazard, Florence Elsworth Hazard, Elizabeth Robinson Hazard, Frank Green Hazard, Helen Franklin Hazard and Arnold Watson Hazard. Florence married Austrian Prince Francis von Auersperg on June 26, 1899, and thereafter was known as "Princess von Auersperg." They divorced in January 1915 after the Prince demanded that she place her fortune in his name. She married New York businessman John Joseph Murphy of New York in May 1915. Murphy was the son of New York State Senator Edward Murphy, Jr..; Elizabeth married Harry Lord Powers, son of NY builder, banker, politician, and NY Parks Commissioner (1884–1888) on June 26, 1908. Helen married Alfred Nash Beadleston - forty years her senior - who was senior partner of Beadleston & Woerz Brewery (Empire Beer) in 1909. After his death 12 years later, she married Julian McCarty Little of Newport, RI. Elmer became a well-respected doctor in Long Branch, NJ and founded Hazard Hospital.
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