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Hayden, Edward Daniel

lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born Dec. 27, 1833, in Cambridge, Mass. In 1862 he entered the United States navy as assistant paymaster. He was a member of the state house of representatives of Massachusetts in 1880, 1881, and 1882. He settled at Woburn, Mass., and was elected a representative from Massachusetts to the forty-ninth and fiftieth congresses as a republican.

HAYDEN, FERDINAND VANDER- VEER, geologist, author, was born Sept. 7, 1829, in Westfield, Mass. He was a professor of geology in the university of Pennsylvania, and the author of Origin and Progress of the United States Geological Survey of the Territories; and The Yellowstone National Park. He died Dec. 22, 1887, in Philadelphia, Pa.

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