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Haydn, Hiram Collins – Hayes, Walter I

Haydn, Hiram Collins

clergyman, college president, author, was born Dec. 11, 1831, in Pompey, N. Y. During 1887- 90 he was president of Adelbert college.

Hayes, Augustus Allen

was born Feb. 28, 1806, in Windsor, Vt. He was a novelist of Brookline, Mass., and the author of New Colorado and the Santa Fe Trail; The Jesuit's Ring, a Romance; and The Denver Express. He died June 21, 1882, in Brookline, Mass.

Hayes, Catherine

vocalist, was born in 1825 in Ireland. She has attained a national prominence as a vocalist, and among her best known concert songs are The Rose of Summer; The Lament of the Irish Emigrant; and others.

Hayes, Charles Melville

railroad manager, was born May 6, 1856, in Rock Island, Ill. In 1887 he was appointed general manager of the Wabash Western railroad, and in 1889 was appointed general manager of the reorganized and consolidated lines of the Wabash system east and west of the Mississippi river.

Hayes, Edward R

lawyer, congressman, was born May 26, 1841, in Wood county, Ohio. He is a successful lawyer of Knoxville, Iowa, and was elected to the fifty-fifth congress to fill a vacancy.

Hayes, Isaac Israel

explorer, author, was born March 5, 1832, in Chester county, Pa. He was an arctic explorer whose first voyage was made with Dr.

Kane. He was the author of The Open Polar Sea; An Arctic Boat Journey; Cast Away in the Cold; The Land of Desolation; and Pictures of Arctic Travel. He died Dec. 17, 1881, in New York city.

Hayes, John Wesley

inventor, mathematician, was born April 10, 1836, in Somersworth, N. H. He is the inventor of many useful machines, including a rotary engine based upon the principle of the cycloid curve. He has been a master mechanic in railroad shops, and in the United States navy yard machine shops.

He is the author of a mathematical work, and has contributed several valuable articles to mechanical publications.

Hayes, Joseph

soldier, was born Sept. 14, 1835, in South Berwick, Maine.

He was brevetted major-general of volunteers in 1865. In 1865 he was appointed United States commissioner of supplies in the seceded states. In 1877 he introduced the American system of hydraulic mining into the United States of Colombia.

Hayes, Lucy Ware Webb

philanthropist, was born Aug. 28, 1831, in Chillicothe, Ohio. Mrs. Hayes was noted for her devotion to the wounded soldiers during the war. She refused to permit wine to be served on the White House table, and for this innovation incurred much censure in some političar circles, but received high praise from the advocates of total abstinence. She died June 25, 1889, in Fremont, Ohio.

Hayes, Philip Cornelius

soldier, journalist, congressman, was born Feb. 3, 1833, in Granby, Conn. He entered the union army in 1861 as a private, and served throughout the war, rising to the rank of colonel, and brevet brigadier-general. He was elected a representative from Illinois to the forty-fifth and fortysixth congresses as a republican.

Hayes, Samuel

congressman, was born in Virginia. He was a representative in congress from that state, from 1841 to 1843.

Hayes, Walter I

lawyer, legislator, congressman, was born Dec. 9, 1841, in Marshall, Mich. He was district judge of the seventh judicial district of Iowa, and was twice the candidate of the democratic party for judge of the supreme court of the state. He was elected to the fiftieth and fifty-first congresses, and reelected to the fifty-second congress as a democrat.