page_title: Hazard Stevens
section_title: Later life
hierarchical_section_title: Hazard Stevens / Later life
caption_attribution_description: English: A photo of Civil War General Hazard Stevens, who won the Medal of Honor. Stevens completed the first ascent of Mount Rainier in 1870. This photo was taken by C. E. Cutter in 1905, when Stevens climbed Rainier for a second time.
context_page_description: Hazard Stevens was an American military officer, mountaineer, politician and writer. He received the Medal of Honor for his service in the Union army during the American Civil War at the Battle of Fort Huger. Stevens and Philemon Beecher Van Trump made the first documented successful climb of Mount Rainier on August 17, 1870.
context_section_description: In 1874, Stevens moved to Dorchester, Massachusetts near Boston.  He then entered the Massachusetts state legislature as a reformer in 1885.  He successfully lobbied for the preservation of Boston's Old State House.  He was unsuccessful in a run for the United States Congress.
  In 1887 Stevens was admitted to the Rhode Island Society of the Cincinnati by right of his descent from Lieutenant Colonel Daniel Lyman.
  Stevens climbed Mount Rainier a second time in 1905 on a trip organized by The Mazamas, an Oregon mountaineering club.
  Stevens established the Cloverfields Dairy Farm in Olympia, Washington in 1916.  Now on the National Historic Register, the former farm is the site of the present Olympia High School.
  Later in life, Stevens wrote "The Life of Isaac Ingalls Stevens", a noted biography of his father in addition to many papers on the Civil War. In 1918, while in frail health, he presided over the ceremonial placement of a memorial marker to Bureau of Indian Affairs agent Andrew Bolon in Klickitat County, Washington and, the following day, suffered a stroke of paralysis. He died unmarried shortly thereafter  and is interred at Island Cemetery in Newport, Rhode Island Plot: Lots 650-653.
caption: Hazard Stevens during his second ascent of Mount Rainier in 1905.
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