Allen Hazen

The tall, broad-shouldered figure of Allen Hazen was familiar to the lunch-table and the Graham Library. Seemingly reticent in speech, Hazen would repeatedly surprise the group in which he sat by the scope of his information on some question of the moment and by the forcefulness of his quiet comment. In the engineering problem of flood control he was a notable expert; no one who listened to his brief and unpretentious conversation at the Club on the Mississippi overflow could leave the group without clearer vision. The Century had less knowledge of the Hazen at his vacation country-place, a Vermont farm where he was born and where his ancestors built their home while the guns were firing on Bunker Hill. The friends whom he entertained out-of-doors on the beautiful country-side never forgot his mellowness as host, his skill as cook, his complete acquaintance with history and topography of the surrounding country.

Alexander Dana Noyes
1931 Century Association Yearbook