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Haywood, Benjamin J

financier, was born April 12, 1849, in Mercer county, Pa. He received the rudiments of his education in the public schools, and subsequently graduated from the Business college of Pittsburg, Pa. He has filled numerous public positions of trust in his native county and state; was receiver of the First National bank of Clearfield, Pa.; and is now state treasurer of Pennsylvania sylvania.

HAYWOOD, BENJAMIN SHERWOOD, educator, clergyman, was born Sept. 15, 1863, near Romney, Ind. He graduated from Cornell college of Mt. Vernon, Iowa; and from the Purdue university of Lafayette, Ind. He was a successful educator in Indiana and Nebraska; and since 1889 has been clergyman of the methodist episcopal church. During 1894-97 he was president of the West Nebraska conference of the Epworth league; and since 1896 has filled a pastorate in Holdrege, Neb.