HKRRINQRHAWS MBRART OF AMERICAN BIOQRAPHT. phia, Pa. Since 1888 he lias In^n prcnitlt-nt of the St. I'aiul aiul Dultitli railway.
Hayes, Rutherford Burchard, nineteenth prMidfiit
of
tii>
man. was born
l
(><l.
Statts. eongretiH18J2. in Delaware,
iiited 4.
Me graduatiHl at Kenyon »-«)llege in 1842: stu(iie«l law at 11 a r V an! university, and was admitted to In the Itar in 1845. 18."»2 he marrie<l .Miss Ohi»i.
Lucy was
V.
judjjc in
WHS
Vel)ii.
defeat lS.')(t;
e d
lie
for
in IH.'M)
el«ct»'d city solic-
itor, to
till
a vacancy,
by
the
city
c«>uncil.
Cincinnati
and
in
1860 wa** elected by the peojde for one yejir. Iiut «lt'feate8: Marshall Jewell, II, and William A. Wheeler. 3. There was no niati-rial rhanifr until the seventh ballot, which gjiw Hayes. .384; Blaine. 351, an<l Bristow, 21. Hayes receiving a majority, the vote was made unanimous. William .-Mnion Wheeler, of Xew York, was nominate<l for vice-president. At the NovemlnT election Ihr [lopular vote »t«>od For Haves,
Tilden. 4.284,265. Tilden's majority, 250.970. The canvassing boanls of Florida. Louisiana and South Carolina having returned the reiiublican presidtiitial electors, their right to do so l>eing 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 oommision was composed of five justices of flie supreme eoirt. live senators an«i five representatives, as follows: .lust ices Nathan ClilTortl. Maine; Samuel F. Milh-r, Iowa; Stephen Johnson Field, California; William .Strong, Pennsylvania; Jo«M'ph P. Bradley. X»'w .Jersey. Senators Oetirge F. Edmnnds. Vermont: Oliver P. Morton. Indiana; Frederick T. Freliiighuysen. New Jersey: Allen f?. Tliurman. Ohio; Thomas Francis Bayard, Delaware. Representatives Ffenry B. Payne, Ohio; Eppa Tlunton, 4.(i:<3.2n5;
for
vote of Florida, lx)uisiana and S<^»uth Carolina should l>e countetl for Hayea and Wheeler, which gave them 185 and Tilden and Hendricks 184 electoral voten. The result was reported to congress, and at four o'clock on the morning of March 2, IH77, Hayea was declared ehfte*! president. c-an electoral
He at once resigned the oflice of governor of Ohio and proceeded to Washington and Saturday night. took the oath of ofdciMarch 3. He was inauguntte«l on M<inilay, March 5. and again took the oath of oflice. .t the close of his term. March 4. 1881. he retired to his home at Fremont. Ohio. Hayea held office about fourteen years, and was the wealthiest of all the presidents. He di«t| .Tan. 17, 1893. in Cincinnati, Ohio. Hayes, Samuel, congressman, was born
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in
Virginia. He was n representative in congress from Virginia in 1841-43. He died in Virginia. Hayes, Samuel, lawyer, jurist, of Oklahoma, was born Sept. 17. 1875. in HuntsviUe. .Vrk. He was e<Iucated in the university of Virginia public school of Texas and at the university of N'irginia. He attained success at the Iwir in C>klahiMna; was a delegate to the constitutional convention of Oklahoma. Since 1!M)3 he has been an assoi'iate justil-e of the supreme court <»f Oklahoma.
Hayes, Thomas Gordon,
soldier,
lawyer and
small, was l>orn .Tan. 5, 1844, in . ne .Xrundel 'Hiunty. Md. He graduated from the Virginia military institute. He sened as a confederate soldier during the civil war. In 1872 he Ix'gan the practice of law; and was Cnited States district attorney for Maryland under T*resident Cleveland's first administration. In 1899-1903 he was mayor >«tat»
of Baltimore.
Hayes, William James, manufacturer, waa on Oct. II, 1837. in New Lisl>on. Ohio. mills have enntinued to grow until they have Iweome the
iMtrn
H is wire
largest
the
in
coun-
employing seven thousand men. their annual out]>ut aggregating sixty thousand try,
tons.
In
"
1886
the
banking firm was sueceedH by W. J. Hayes and sons, who assumed all the depoMits. as-
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'irginia; Joseph fi. Abbott, Ma.ssachuetta; Hoar. Maasachusetta; James t^Jeorge F. .M)ram Garfield, Ohio. The commission decided by a vote of 8 to 7 that the republi-
sets
and
and
purchased
linbilitiea
the
gn<M| will of the busi-
ness.
The bank
is
now a
rising institution,
transacts general banking in all its forms, stand-* higli in the i-^t innit ion of busi-
and
ne-is men. Hayes, Walter I., lawyer, legislator, congressman, was born Dec. 9, 1841. in Marshall, Mich. He graduated from the law de-
