This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: HAZE Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/kFB.2ACE/4164 Message Board Post: Captain William Haze was born in Grand Rapids, Feb. 17, 1885, and was educated in the high school of the city. He is one of the few Grand Rapids officers who is unmarried. For a number of years he has been a trusted employee of the Bissell Carpet Sweeper Company. His military service began with Company M, in 1903, as a bugler. He went through the line of promotion from corporal to first lieutenant of the machine gun company and was commissioned captain on May 2, 1917. He is an enthusiastic, but level-headed young man and is bound to make his company effective in this very important branch of the service.