The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1896-08-21
HIZZ0NER"
"A Brief Sketch of Hazen
S. Pingree'S Life.
ME- is A SELF-MADE MAN.
His Career. Financially and Politi-
cally a Prosperous One.

The story of the life of Hazen S.
Pingree, the Republican nominee for
governor, is that of one who has been
successfully a farmer boy, soldier,
merchant and politician. Born in
Maine he worked first on farm
and then in afactory, until the eom-
mencement of the war. One of the
first men to enlst from his part of
the country, he fought through the
war, and then, at its close, came.
west, locating in Detroit, which he
has made his home since. His
career there has been as u workman
and afterward as a merchant, finally
merging Though the favor and for
tune, and, ae some of his friends be-
lieve by manifest destiny, into the
political field.
The farm upon which Mr.. Pingree
was born, was patch of about 80
acres of stony ground at Denmark.
Maine. He was the son of Jasper
and Adaline Pingree, and was born
Aug. 80, l842. His early boyhoOd
was spent much as the life OF any
farmers boy is spent, in doing chores
about the farm and attending dis
trict school in his township during
the winter seasons. This continued
until the future mayor and politician
was IA years of age, and then
his inborn spirit of independence
cropped out and he decided for him
self that hecould make more money
working in sthe cotton mills than he
could by staying on the farm. Ac-
cordingiy, he left his home, having
obtained ,censent of his parents to
try his f0EEIne elsewhere and went
to SacO, where he obtained work in
one of the cotton mills. He received
50 u month in his first situation, and
worked long days, with no liberty
for himself IN the evenings, LIVING AN
a boarding house run by the mill
owners, where lights were out and
everybody in bed mt 8 o'clock
Ssr A BITTER JOB.
This sort of life soon lost its charm
for the Young man, and he quit his
Job after having held it down for "a
short time, and went to Hopklntou,
Mass. where he Bot employment in
q shoe factory, lifting out heels for
shoes for Sl.1S for n day of ID hours.
When the war sounded and the cali
for volunteers came, young Pingree
was the first aan in his town to put
his name on .the roll of the First
Massachusetts, heavy artillery. Since
his babyhood ,he had been an aboli.
tionist, having had the doctrine
taught him sby his piOus pHritan
parents as soOnras he was able to walk !,
and the defenoeof the principle was
L., IL II
4 to Co. G ian his regiment, and the
first order 0f duty which came was
to the defeMce 90 the capitol. That
service and Bull Run on August ,30S
slS62, was the -sytent of army life
swhich Mr.. Pingreo saw in the FIRST
Massachusetts. sHe re-eniisted at
1.-The expiration Of his first term of
two years and vsvas assigned this,
time to the second brigade, third
division, second corps army of the.
Potomac. With this brigade he pass-
ed through the battles of Fredrcks-.
bmg Road, Harris Farm, Spottsyi-
vania Court Horss, Cold HarbOr,
North and South Anna. In May
1864, the young private Pingree was
captured by Masby.s men and sent
to the military prisons of the south,
being confined FOR n short time at
Gordcnsville, Va, Salisbury, N. G.,
Miller, Ga, and for about five months
at ARdersonvIlle. Epom the latter
place be escaped by answering to the
name Of soldier for whom exchange
had been granted, but who had died
before ahe exchange came.
CAME TO DETROIT.
! Finishang up the war with his
4 regiment Mr.. Pingree say service at
1.-the battles of Fort Fisher, Boyden,
Sailors' Geek, Fransville and Appo-
mattox COart House, and on Aug. l,
1866, was mustered honorably out
Of the service. 1t was but short
tame after this that he came to Detroit
to get start in life, and he has been
busy getting a real good start ever
| since.
When Hazen S. Pingree arrived |
| he should do. but was lOoking for |
employment of any kind. His form
er experience i'm shoe factory sug-
gested again looking for that kind of |
employment, and he finally secured |
a job in the Baldwin shoe factory,
chopping out shoe soles. Shortly |
after that he formed partnership
witlrC. IL. Smith, and putting their
slender savings together, the two
young men purchased q small shoe
| factory then running on the corner of |
| Champlain and Randolph streets.
Pingree took the pra tical end of the
work and Smith the business affairs.
In time Pingree went on the road
as salesman for the factory and
proved so capable in that direction
that the business began to grow. 1t
kept on prospering, and the necessity