Manufacturer
Centurion, 1904–1918
Born 22 January 1855 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Died 23 January 1918 in Santa Barbara, California
Buried Oak Dell Cemetery
, South Kingstown, Rhode Island
Proposed by C. Grant La Farge and Theodore S. Woolsey
Elected 7 May 1904 at age forty-nine
Archivist’s Note: His name at birth was Theodore Peace Hazard.
Seconder of:
Century Memorial
Rowland Gibson Hazard, too, was one of those men of large affairs to whom the public welfare made stronger appeal than his company’s profit and loss account. In the Peace Dale woolen mills of Rhode Island, the Hazard family initiated and extended plans for the personal comfort and social betterment of their employees such as rendered impossible the continuance of the older and bad indifference of industrial employers to the interests of the workers. With this beneficent social work he combined an interest in scholarship and a wide acquaintance with scholars, which made him, as all who knew him will agree, a true Centurion.
Alexander Dana Noyes
1919 Century Association Yearbook
