Hazard Stevens

Born in 1842, Hazard Stevens was the son of Isaac Ingalls Stevens, the first governor of Washington Territory. During the Civil War he served in the Union Army, fighting in major campaigns and earning the Medal of Honor for his actions at the Battle of Chantilly in 1862.

After the war, he built a life in Washington and remained closely connected to the region’s history. In 1870, he and P. B. Van Trump made the first recorded ascent of Mount Rainier, an achievement that secured his place in Pacific Northwest history.

Stevens also turned to writing and historical work. He is known for preserving and interpreting his father’s career through biographical and editorial projects, helping later readers understand the political and military world of the nineteenth-century American West.