Pingree, Hazen Senter

Born

August 30,1840

Birthplace

Denmark, Maine

Titles and Honors

Elected Mayor of Detroit (Republican Party) in 1889 and served four terms.
In 1896, he was elected governor and served two terms.
(Burton, City of Detroit, Michigan. Vol III. Detroit, 1922. p. 832)

May 30, 1904, the dedication of the Pingree statue was held in Grand Circus Park. The monument is inscribed as follows:
"The Citizens of Detroit erect this monument to the cherished memory of Hazen S. Pingree, a gallant soldier and an enterprising and successful citizen, four times elected mayor of Detroit, twice governor of Michigan. He was the first to warn the people of the great danger threatened by powerful private corporations and the first to awake the great inequalities in taxation and to initiate steps for reform. The idol of the people. He died June 18, 1901, aged 60 years."

Education

Sporadic common schooling in Oxford County during the winter months.

Notes

Detroit Mayors
Mayors
Michigan Governors
Political Campaigns
---------- Commission signed by, 1898 - Ft. Wayne
---------- Clipping, members of Military Department during Governorship - Bio file
---------- Clippings and reference material - in bio file.

Occupation

Left his father's farm when he was 14 years old.
1854 - went to Saco, Maine to work in cotton factory.
1856 - went to Hopkinton, Mass. and learned trade of shoe cutting.
1862 - enlisted as private in Hopkinton, Mass. Fought in several battles. Captured and held at several southern prisons, including 6 months at Andersonville.
1866 - employed in the boot and shoe establishment of H.P. Baldwin, Detroit. With Charles H. Smith, established the shoe manufacturing firm of Pingree & Smith.

Publications

Farmer, Vol II, p. 1199
MICHIGAN BIOGRAPHIES, p. 197
pamphlet, "Detroit's 250th Anniversary, Hudson's 70th Year"
THE DETROIT NEWS, Sunday, October 11, 1931, p. 14

Father

Jasper Pingree

Mother

Adaline Bryant

Spouse

Francis A. Gilbert

Children

Hazen S. Jr.
Gertrude Elizabeth
Hazel

Relations

Brother Frank C. Pingree.

Nationality

American