Hayden, Horace H – Hayes, Walter I
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, James Henry
lawyer, was born Feb. 23, 1867, in New York city. He received his education at the St. Paul's school of Concord, N. H.; graduated from Yale university in 1887; from the Yale Law school in 1889, and has received the degrees of Ph. B. and LL. B. He has been counsel for the William Cramp and Sons' Ship and Engine Building company, the Bethlehem Iron company, Simpson Dry-Dock company, and other large corporations. He is a member of various societies and associations, and governor of the Century club of Washington, D. C.
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.
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 Lord
lawyer, author, was born April 13, 1812, in South Berwick, Maine. In 1861-65 he was chief clerk of the United States patent office, and in thè latter year he became secretary of the National association of Wool Manufacturers, which office he retained till his death. He was the author of The Iron Mines of Nova Scotia; Jackson's Vindication as the Discoverer of Anæsthetics; The Hudson Bay Question; The Protective Question Abroad and at Home; and Sheep Industry in the South. He died April 18, 1887, in Cambridge, Mass.
Hayes, John S
educator, librarian, was born July 5, 1841, in Durham, N. H.
He received his early education in the schools of his native town and at Atkinson academy, and graduated from Phillips Exeter academy in 1858. He then taught school in New Market, Amesbury, Northwood academy, and for three years was master of Bowditch school at Peabody.
He then became principal of the Craddock school, of Medford, and later of the North Grammar school of Manchester, N. H.
During 1869-73 he taught in Newton, and for the four succeeding years was the New England agent for D. Appleton and Co. He has been president of the Middlesex County Teachers' association, and since 1893 has been librarian of the Somerville public library. He died March 7, 1898, in Somerville, Mass.
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, Richard Somers
railroad president, was born Oct. 12, 1846, in Philadelphia, Pa. Since 1888 he has been president of the St. Paul and Duluth railway.
Hayes, Rutherford Birchard
nineteenth president of the United States, was born Oct. 4, 1822, in Delaware, Ohio.
He graduated at Kenyon college in 1842; studied law at Harvard university, and was admitted to the bar in 1845. In 1852 he married Miss Lucy W. Webb. He was defeated for judge in 1856; in in 1859 was elected city solicitor, to fill a vacancy, by the Cincinnati city council, and in 1860 was elected by the people for one year, but defeated in 1861. He was appointed major of the twenty-third Ohio infantry June 7, 1861, and continued in In the service, being promoted for distinguished services, having been wounded four times, until he attained the rank of brigadier-general. While in the field, in 1864, he was elected a representative in congress, and re-elected in 1866. In 1867 he was elected governor of Ohio over.
Allen G. Thurman and was inaugurated Jan. 13, 1868, having resigned his seat in congress. He was re-elected governor over George H. Pendleton in 1869. 1872 he was defeated for congress, and in 1875 was again elected governor of Ohio, this time defeating Governor William Allen. The republican national convention met at Cincinnati June 14, 1876, to nominate candidates for president and vice-president. June 16 the first ballot stood: James G. Blaine, 285; Oliver P.
Morton, 124; Benjamin H. Bristow, 113; Roscoe Conkling, 99; Rutherford B.
Hayes, 61; John F. Hartranft, 58; Marshall Jewell, 11, and William A. Wheeler, 3. There was no material change until the seventh ballot, which gave Hayes 384; Blaine, 351, and Bristow, 21. Hayes receiving a majority, the vote was made unanimous. William Almon Wheeler, of New York, was nominated for vice-president. At the November election the popular vote stood: For Hayes, 4,033,295; for Tilden, 4,284,265. Tilden's majority, 250,- 970. The canvassing boards of Florida, Louisiana and South Carolina having returned the republican presidential electors, their right to do so being questioned by the democratic house of representatives (the senate being republican), congress on Jan. 29, 1877, passed a bill creating an electoral commission to count the electoral vote in all disputed cases. The commission was composed of five justices of the supreme court, five senators and five representatives, as follows: Justices -Nathan Clifford, Maine; Samuel F. Miller, Iowa; Stephen Johnson Field, California; William Strong, Pennsylvania; Joseph P. Bradley, New Jersey. Senators -George F. Edmunds, Vermont; Oliver P.
Morton, Indiana; Frederick T. Frelinghuysen, New Jersey; Allen G. Thurman, Ohio; Thomas Francis Bayard, Delaware.
Representatives-Henry B. Payne, Ohio; Eppa Hunton, Virginia; Josiah G. Abbott, Massachusetts: George F. Hoar, Massachusetts; James Abram Garfield, Ohio. The commission decided by a vote of 8 to 7 that the republican electoral vote of Florida, Louisiana and South Carolina should be counted for Hayes and Wheeler, which gave them 185 and Tilden and Hendricks 184 electoral votes. The result was reported to congress, and at four o'clock on the morning of March 2, 1877, Hayes was declared elected president. He at once resigned the office of governor of Ohio and proceeded to Washington and took the oath of office Saturday night, March 3. He was inaugurated on Monday, March 5, and again took the oath of office. At the close of his term, March 4, 1881, he retired to his home at Fremont, Ohio, where he died Jan. 17, 1833. Hayes held office about fourteen years, and was the wealthiest of all the presidents.
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.