Arthur S. Hazelton, attorney at law, and of the firm of Mayne & Hazelton, has been a member of the bar of Council Bluffs since April 6, 1886.

Mr. Hazelton is a native of Plymouth, New Hampshire, where he was born November 7, 1855. His father, Charles Hazelton, died at Plymouth, April 1, 1881, where the mother of the subject of this sketch still lives. The family consists of three sons and one daughter. The eldest of the family, Martha F., resides in Plymouth, New Hampshire. The eldest of the brothers, Charles W., is a civil engineer, and resides at Turner's Falls, Massachusetts. Henry is a teller in the Council Bluffs Savings Bank.

The subject of this sketch is the youngest in the family. He prepared for college at Kimball Academy, and entered Dartmouth College in 1877, graduating in 1881. He studied law in the office of Blair, Burling & Adams, the first mentioned being the Hon. Henry N. Blair, United States Senator from New Hampshire. He attended law school at Boston University, and at Columbia Law School in New York City.

Mr. Hazelton paved the way through college with money which he earned, and met the expenses of a law course while in New York by teaching during the forenoons, and attending lectures in the after part of the day.

On September 5, 1884, Mr. Hazelton arrived in Council Bluffs, and for one year was principal of the high school in that city. As he was obliged to read law one year in Iowa before engaging in practice, he entered the office of Jacob Sims, Esq., where he pursued a year's course of study in law before his admission to the bar. The present partnership was formed on May 1, 1886. Mr. Hazelton, by his own energy and industry, has obtained a liberal literary education, and his legal attainments have been reached by the same means, and they are very thorough. He is still a young man, but has already taken a prominent place at the bar of Pottawattamie County, and is esteemed as an enterprising and progressive citizen. Politically he is a Republican, and is a worthy member of the order of A. F. & A. M.

He was married May 16, 1888, to Miss Emma Higham, of Keokuk, and they have one son, Charles S.