Herringshaw's Encyclopedia of American Biography

Thousands of short American lives — soldiers, inventors, preachers, governors, novelists — each given a paragraph: born where, did what, and why anyone remembered.

HomeH › Hay, Charles Augustus – Hayden, William Benjamin

Hay, Charles Augustus – Hayden, William Benjamin

Hay, Charles Augustus

clergyman, theologian, was born Feb. 11, 1821, in York, Pa. He was pastor at Hanover in 1848-49, and at Harrisburg, Pa., in 1849-65. In the latter year he was called to the Theological seminary as professor of Hebrew, German, biblical criticism, and pastoral theology. He translated from the German, Dr. Schmid's Doctrinal Theology of the Evangelical Lutheran Church.

Hay, Eugene G

lawyer, legislator, was born March 26, 1853, in Charlestown, Ind. In 1889 he was elected a member of the Minnesota state legislature, and in 1890-94 was United States district attorney of that state.

Hay, George

lawyer, jurist, author.

He was a member of the Virginia legislature and was for many years United States attorney, in which capacity he was the prosecutor of Aaron Burr. He was subsequently judge of the United States court for the eastern district of Virginia.

He wrote a treatise against the Usury Laws; Life of John Thompson; and a treatise on Emigration in 1814. He died Sept. 21, 1830, in Richmond.

Hay, James

lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born Jan. 9, 1856, in Millwood, Va. He was elected attorney for the commonwealth in 1883, and reelected to that office in 1887, 1891, and 1895. He was elected to the house of delegates of Virginia in 1885, and was reelected in 1887 and 1889. He was elected to the state senate in 1893. He was elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a democrat.

Hay, John B

soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born Jan. 8, 1834, in Belleville, Ill. He was for eight years a district attorney for the state; served in the union army during the rebellion, and was elected a representative from Illinois to the forty-first congress as a republican.

Hay, Malcolm

lawyer, was born in 1842 in Pennsylvania. He became president of the Mercantile Library association of Pittsburg; was a trustee of the Dollar Savings bank, and was a member of the state constitutional convention of 1872. In 1885 he was appointed first assistant postmaster-general. He died Oct. 20, 1885.

Hay, Walter

physician, journalist, was born June 13, 1830, in Georgetown, D. C. He organized St. Luke's hospital in Chicago in 1864, became editor of the Chicago Medical Journal in 1867, and retained this connection until the sale of the paper in 1875.

Hayden, Charles S

LL. B., lawyer, jurist, was born Dec. 10, 1848, in Harvard, Mass. Since 1891 he has been chief justice of the court. In 1889 he was elected mayor of Fitchburg.

Hayden, Hezekiah Sidney

capitalist, senator, was born Jan. 29, 1816, in Windsor, Conn. In 1858 he erected a building for a Young Ladies' institute, which has been conducted successfully.

He served in both branches of the state legislature, and in the senate in 1866.

Hayden, Horace H

dentist, author, was born Oct. 13, 1769, in Windsor, Conn.

He was a once noted Baltimore dentist who published Geological Essays. He died Jan. 26, 1844, in Baltimore, Md.

Hayden, Moses

was born in 1786 in Hampshire county, Mass. He was a member of the New York state senate in 1829 and 1830, and a representative in congress from New York, from 1823 to 1827. He died Feb. 14, 1830.

Hayden, William Benjamin

clergyman, author, was born in 1816 in New York. He was a Swedenborgian clergyman, and the author of Science and Revelation; Phenomena of Modern Spiritualism; The Apocalyptic Dispensation; Light on the Last Things; and Dangers of Modern Spiritualism, which include the greater portion of his work. He died in 1893.

← Hayden, James HenryHayes, John Lord →