Among the first settlers of Springvale, were the nine Hazen brothers; sons of John and Polly (Blodgett) Hazen, who were natives of Massachusetts, but early immigrants to Lewis Co., N.Y., where these sons were born; their father dying in 1838, eight of the brothers with their mother came to Wisconsin in July, 1844, and settled in the town of Oakfield, Fond du Lac Co., and later in the town of Springvale; they were Sewell V., now living at Winona, Minn., to which place he removed in 1861; Calvin, now a citizen of this town - Springvale; Alonzo, now a residen to Eau Claire Co., Wis; James, who was perhaps the first physician in the town of Springvale, and who soon after settled in Milwaukee, but was forced on account of ill health to give up his professional work (he died in the city of Fond du Lac, Aug 13, 1853, leaving a daughter, Nettie, who afterward, with her mother and stepfather, removed to Wyoming, and there was drawn as one of the first twelve lady jusists in the United States); Lorenzo, who preceded the rest of the family in the town of Oakfield a year (he was a member of the Wisconsin Constitutional Convention; he afterward removed to the city of Fond du Lac, thence to the city of Ripon, and, finally, to Owatonna, Steele Co. Minn., where he is not County Judge); John, now a citizen of Springvale; Sanford, now a resident of Ripon, Wis; Chester, who was the second settler of this town - Springvale; Loren E., who returned to New York, and is now a resident of the town of Copenhagen, Lewis Co. Their mother died at her son Calvin's home in Springvale in June 1856. 1880 Biographical and Historical History, Fond du Lac Co. WI page 927-928