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Hayes, William James – Hays, George Peirce

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Hayes, William James

manufacturer, was born Oct. 11, 1837, in New Lis- , in New Lisbon, Ohio. His wire mills have continued have continued to grow until they grow until they have become the largest in the country, employing 7,500 men, their annual output aggregating 60,000 tons. In 1886 the banking firm was succeeded by W. J.

Hayes and Sons, who assumed all the deposits, assets and liabilities and purchased the good will of the business. The bank is now a rising institution, transacts general banking in all its forms, and stands high in the high in the estimation of business men.

Haygood, Atticus Green

clergyman, author, was born Nov. 19, 1839, in , 1839, in Watkinsville, Ga. He was a methodist a methodist clergyman of much prominence in the prominence in the south; and the author of The Monk and Monk and the Prince, a Critical Study of Savonof Savonarola and Lorenzo de' Medici; Our Keep- ; Our Keep- Sake; Our Children; Our Brother in in Black; Speeches and Sermons; Jack- ; Jackknife and Brambles, a discussion of the of the authorship and meaning of the books of the books of the Bible; Pleas for Progress; and The ; and The Man of Galilee. He died in 1896 .

Haygood, Johnson

governor. He was governor of South Carolina from 1880 from 1880 to 1882.

Hayman, Jerome T

farmer, merchant, legislator, was born Feb. 4, 1853, in 4, 1853, in Worcester county, Md. In 1892 he was 1892 he was elected a member of the state legislastate legislature of Maryland, and served two terms .

Hayman, Samuel Brinkle

soldier, was born June 5, 1820, in Chester in Chester county, Pa. In 1865 he was brevetted brigadier-general of volunteers for galfor gallantry at Fair Oaks.

Haymond, Thomas S

congressman, was born in Virginia. He was a reprea representative in congress from that state from state from 1849 to 1851.

Haymond, W. S

soldier, physician, railroad president, congressman, was born was born Feb. 20, 1823, in Harrison county, Va. county, Va.

In 1861 he entered the army as a surgeon, where he remained until 1863. He was He was elected president of the Indianapolis, Delphi and Chicago Railroad company in company in 1872, 1873 and 1874. In 1874 he was electwas elected a representative from Indiana to the to the forty-fourth congress.

Hayne, Arthur Peronneau

soldier, lawyer, United States senator , was born March 12, 1790, in Charleston, S. C.

Charleston, S. C.

During the Florida war he was called into called into the field, and had command of the Tenof the Tennessee volunteers, and after receiving three brevets, retired from the army in army in 1820. Subsequently he served in the legin the legislature of South Carolina, and was chosen a presidential elector in 1828, voting for voting for Jackson. He was appointed to a seat in to a seat in the United States senate from South Caro- South Carolina in 1858 to fill a vacancy. He died Jan. 7, 1867, in Charleston, S.

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Hayne, Isaac

soldier, state senator, was born Sept. 24, 1745, in South Caro- South Carolina. Early in the war he entered the entered the service and became a captain of artillery, of artillery, and later was placed in command of a of a regiment of militia. He was elected a member of the state senate. He died Aug.

He died Aug. 4, 1781, in Charleston, S. C.

Hayne, Paul Hamilton

soldier, author, poet, was born Jan. 1, 1830, in 1830, in Charleston, S. C. He was a -lyric poet a lyric poet whose verse has much melody. He served . He served as a colonel in the confederate army, and army, and at the close of the civil war, broken in health and fortunes, retired to the small to the small village of Grovetown, Ga., where the rest where the rest of his life was passed. He was the author was the author of Avolio; The Mountain of the Lovers; of the Lovers; Legends and Lyrics; Sonnets and Other and Other Poems; and Lives of Robert Hayne and Hayne and Hugh Legare. A complete edition of his edition of his poems appeared in 1883. He died July 6, He died July 6, 1886, near Augusta, Ga.

Hayne, Robert Young

soldier, governor, lawyer, railroad president, governor, United States senator, was born Nov. 10, 1791, in St. Paul's in St. Paul's parish, S. C. In the war of 1812 he held the commission of lieutenant. In 1814 he was elected to the state legislature, and in 1818 speaker, and was also attorney-general of the state. He was elected to the United States senate in 1823, and continued there until 1832. He was elected governor of the state, serving until 1834. He was subwas subsequently mayor of Charleston; and Charleston; president of the Charleston, Louisville and Cincinnati Railroad company. He died . He died Sept. 24, 1839, in Asheville, N.

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Hayne, William Hamilton

poet, was born March 11, 1856, in Charleston , S.

C. His first poem of special value apvalue appeared in the Youth's Companion in 1881, in 1881, and his poems have since been collected under the title of Sylvan Lyrics.

Haynes, Charles E

congressman, was born in Brunswick, Va. He was a a representative in congress from Georgia from 1825 to 1829, and again from 1835 to 1835 to 1839.

Haynes, Emory Judson

clergyman, author, was born in 1846 in Verin Vermont. He is a methodist clergyman of clergyman of Boston and elsewhere; and the author of author of Are These Things So?; Fairest of Three, of Three, a Tale of American Life; Dollars and Dollars and Duties; and A Farmhouse Cobweb, a Cobweb, Vermont novel. a

Haynes, Henry Williamson

educator, archæologist, author, was Sept. 20, 1831, in Bangor, Maine. The Maine. The winter of 1877-78 he spent in Egypt, seek- Egypt, seeking for evidences of the palæolithic age age in that country. The results of his inveshis investigations were presented at the international congress of anthropological sciences that was held in Paris in 1878, in 1878, where he was rewarded with a medal and a medal and a diploma.

Haynes, Jacob M

lawyer, jurist, banker, was born April 12, 1817, in Mon- , in Monson, Mass. He received the rudiments of rudiments of his education in the education in the academy of his native city; and graduated from the Phillips academy of Massachusetts. In 1843 he moved to Indiana, and the following year was admitted to the bar of that state.

During 1856-71 he was judge of the court of common pleas; during 1871- 77 was judge of the circuit court of Indiana; and since 1874 has been president been president of the People's bank of Portland, Ind. He , Ind. He is one of the foremost lawyers of his lawyers of his adopted state; and has always been prominently identified with its financial and its financial and public affairs.

Haynes, John

governor, statesman, was born in England. In 1635 he became he became governor of Massachusetts. In 1637 he was prominent among the founders of founders of Connecticut; was chosen its first govits first governor in 1639, and every alternate year alternate year afterward until his death. He died March . He died March 1, 1654.

Haynes, John Cummings

publisher, was born Sept. 9, 1829, in Boston, in Boston, Mass. He is president of The Music Pub- Music Publishers' association of the United States.

United States.

Haynes, Martin A

soldier, journalist, congressman, was born July 30, July 30, 1845, in Springfield, N. H. He served He served three years in the union army during the during the civil war. He was a representative in the state legislature in 1872 and 1873. He 1873. He was elected a representative from New Hampshire to the forty-eighth and fortyninth congresses as a republican .

Haynes, Tilley

business man, state senator, was born Feb. 13, 1828, in Sud- , in Sudbury, Mass. He served in the first city first city government of Springfield; was a memwas a member of the lower branch of legislature from 1867-70; state senator from 1875-78; and from 1878-79 a member of the execuof the execиtive council of Govs. Rice and Talbot .

Haynes, William E

soldier, merchant, banker, congressman, was born , was born Oct. 19, 1829, in Hoosac Falls, N. Y. He , N. Y. He was elected auditor of Sandusky county , Ohio, and served two terms. He was appointed collector of internal revenue for the ninth district of Ohio in 1866, which 1866, which position he held until 1867. He was He was elected to the fifty-first and fifty -second congresses as a democrat.

Haynie, Isham Nicolas

soldier, jurist, was born Nov. 18, 1824, in Dover , Tenn. In 1856 he was appointed judge of judge of the court of common pleas at Cairo , Ill.

In 1862 he received the appointment of brigadier-general of volunteers. He resumed his profession in 1864, and subsequently became adjutant-general of Illiof Illinois. He died in 1868 in Springfield , III.

Hays, Alexander

soldier, manufacturer, was born July 8, 1819, in Franklin, Pa. As second lieutenant of the eighth infantry , he entered on the Mexican campaign, and won special distinction in the engagement near Atlixco. He settled in Venango county, Pa., where he engaged in the manufacture of iron in 1848-50; was assistant engineer on railroads in 1850-54, subsequently served in the civil war. He was killed May 5, 1864, in the battle of the Wilderness.

Hays, Asa B

soldier, lawyer, jurist, was born May 17, 1842, in Blount county, Ala. During the war he served in the union army as sergeant-major in the second regiment Tennessee mounted infantry; and afterward as scout and guide for the union army. For a quarter of a century he served faithfully as judge of the probate court at Cullman, Ala.

Hays, Charles

agriculturist, state senator, congressman, was born Feb. 2, 1834, in Green county, Ala. He was electwas elected to the state senate of Alabama in 1868, and while a member was elected to the to the forty-first congress, and was re-elected to the three succeeding congresses.

Hays, George Peirce

clergyman, author, was born in 1838 in Pennsylvania.

He is a presbyterian clergyman of Kansas City; and the author of Everyday Reasoning; The Honest Book; May Women Speak?; and Presbyterians

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