James S. Hazard was a bottler and manufacturer of carbonated beverages in Newport, Rhode Island circa 1847. He was producing many different beverages including lemon soda, birch beer, sarsaparilla, tonic beer, pear and apple ciders, and selling different mineral waters.

Around 1867 he became an agent for George P. Harvey & Co. at Bath Road In Newport.

By 1875 he had taken on Harvey and Thomas Blackler as partners, and the company was known as James S. Hazard & Co. They relocated the company from Newport across the Narragansett Bay to Westerly at 75 Pierce Street. It was here that they began manufacturing HAZARD'S NERVE FOOD which was supposed to restore the nerve tissues and invigorate the whole system, and continued the manufacture of their Belfast Ginger Ale.

In 1877, Hazard returned to Newport at his old address and once again became a bottler of carbonated beverages.

Five years later James took in George A. Hazard as a partner, once again becoming James S. Hazard & Co.

He moved a few doors down to 24 Bath Road in 1883 and took up residence next door.

In 1894, James left to become an agent for the Hassard Company, bottlers of mineral waters.