Hazel was born in Bethesda, OH the second child and only daughter of James Karl and Jenny Millhouse Wright Steen. She graduated from the Washington Seminary for Young Ladies in Washington, Pennsylvania where she learned the "social graces" expected of young ladies.
Hazel met her future husband, Chester Steen, in Stillwater, OK when she was there visiting some relatives and working part time at the Oklahoma A&M College library. After she returned to Pennsylvania they carried on a long distance courtship and were married October 12, 1911 in Bell Vernon, PA by the Reverand Perrin Baker of the First Presbyterian Church.
After the death of her husband, Hazel became housemother for a sorority at Weslyan College in Lincoln. Later she became housemother for the nurses at the Bryan Memorial Hospital School of Nursing in Lincoln. Her home there was the former home of William Jennings Bryan (currently a museum).
As her health declined, she moved to Smith Center, KS to live with her son William. She lived there until her death in 1964.
Hazel met her future husband, Chester Steen, in Stillwater, OK when she was there visiting some relatives and working part time at the Oklahoma A&M College library. After she returned to Pennsylvania they carried on a long distance courtship and were married October 12, 1911 in Bell Vernon, PA by the Reverand Perrin Baker of the First Presbyterian Church.
After the death of her husband, Hazel became housemother for a sorority at Weslyan College in Lincoln. Later she became housemother for the nurses at the Bryan Memorial Hospital School of Nursing in Lincoln. Her home there was the former home of William Jennings Bryan (currently a museum).
As her health declined, she moved to Smith Center, KS to live with her son William. She lived there until her death in 1964.
Hazel was born in Bethesda, OH the second child and only daughter of James Karl and Jenny Millhouse Wright Steen. She graduated from the Washington Seminary for Young Ladies in Washington, Pennsylvania where she learned the "social graces" expected of young ladies.
Hazel met her future husband, Chester Steen, in Stillwater, OK when she was there visiting some relatives and working part time at the Oklahoma A&M College library. After she returned to Pennsylvania they carried on a long distance courtship and were married October 12, 1911 in Bell Vernon, PA by the Reverand Perrin Baker of the First Presbyterian Church.
After the death of her husband, Hazel became housemother for a sorority at Weslyan College in Lincoln. Later she became housemother for the nurses at the Bryan Memorial Hospital School of Nursing in Lincoln. Her home there was the former home of William Jennings Bryan (currently a museum).
As her health declined, she moved to Smith Center, KS to live with her son William. She lived there until her death in 1964.
Hazel met her future husband, Chester Steen, in Stillwater, OK when she was there visiting some relatives and working part time at the Oklahoma A&M College library. After she returned to Pennsylvania they carried on a long distance courtship and were married October 12, 1911 in Bell Vernon, PA by the Reverand Perrin Baker of the First Presbyterian Church.
After the death of her husband, Hazel became housemother for a sorority at Weslyan College in Lincoln. Later she became housemother for the nurses at the Bryan Memorial Hospital School of Nursing in Lincoln. Her home there was the former home of William Jennings Bryan (currently a museum).
As her health declined, she moved to Smith Center, KS to live with her son William. She lived there until her death in 1964.
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