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In 1843 45 he was a representative to the twenty - eighth congress.
He
settled
Pa., where he engaged in manufacture of the
iron in 1848-50; was Assistant engineer on railroads in 1850-54, and subsequently served in the civil war. He was killed .May 5, 1864, in the battle of the
Wilderness.
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fourtli congresses.
lawyer, congressman, Hays, Edward was born May 26, 1847, in Wood county, in the Heidelburgh educated was He Ohio. admitted to college of Ohio. In 1809 he was became a the practice of law; and in 1871 1889-91 he In lawyer of Knoxville, Iowa. was a reprcMfntative from Iowa to the hftyHe «lied Hrst congress to till a vacancy. Feb. 28, 1890, in Knoxville, Iowa. author, Hays, George Pierce, clergyman, is a was born in 1838 in Penn^vlvania. He City; Kansas Presbyterian elergjman of R.,
Ihc and the autiior of Everyday Reasoning; and Honest Book; .May Women Speak T Kansas Presbyterians. He died in 1897 in
Mo. I
Minis, phvsioian. author,
Pa. .lulv 20. 1S47, in Philadelphia,
honorary
memlK'r
was born
leans, 1^1.
Hays, Isaac, physician, journalist, author, ijorn July 5, 1790, in Philadelphia, Pa. 1843 he eslabliahed The Medical News
was In
The 1874 Philadelphia, Pa.; and in -Monthly Abstract of Medical Science. He of several medical works. He died April 13, 1879, In Philadelphia, Pa. of
was the author
Hays, Jacob, high-constable, w as born May 1772, in Bedford, N.Y. In 1801 the mayor of New York City appointed him high-constable, which otlice he held for forty-nine years, until his death. He became a noted ihief-taker and was known throughout the Union for his many captures of criminals. 6,
Hays, Charles, agriculturist, state senator, 1834, congretMiman, was born Feb. 2, the (Jreen county, Ala. He was elected to and in 1808; in Alabama of senate stale fortythe to 18(iU-7I he was representative fortyforty-third and first, forty-second,
Hays
soldier,
April 14, 182U, in Wilkinson county. Miss. He joined his brother. Col. Jack Hays, in the Texas rangers for the service in the Mexican war. In 1852 he was a member of the Louisiana constitutional convention. He entered the confederate service as colonel of the 0th Louisiana infantry; and in 1802 was apiK>inted brigadier-general in the confederate army; and in 1805 became major
- ,'t'iu'ial.
He died Aug. 21, 1870, in New Or-
in
Venango county,
City,
Hays, Harry Thompson,
manufacturer,
soldier,
Alexander,
Hays,
(.ongresaman, was born on July 8, 1819, in Franklin, Pa. As second lieutenant of the he infantry, eighth entered on the Mexi-
of
was born He is an
of association American physicians. of editor He lias been the American .lournal
the
of the Medical Scieiieen; :ind <»f the Medi-
In 1870 he secretarj -general the International congress a t Tni'«lieal
cal
News.
was of
Philadelpliiii.;
and has
secretary of the philosophisociety. He is the cal author of the article iH-en
American
on Blindness, Its Frequency. Causes and Prevention, in System of Diseases of the Eye; also of The Chronology of Benjamin Franklin. He also e(lit«Hl The Calendar of the Papers of Benjamin Franklin, in five volumes.
He
died in June, 1850, in
New York
City.
Hays, James Buchanan, lawyer, jurist, was 10, 1838, in Crawford county, Pa. He was district attorney for Dodge county in 1874-82; and was an unsuccessful candidate for secretary of state of Wisconsin in born Sept.
1877. In 1885-88 he was chief supreme court of the territory
died
May
justice of the of Idaho. He
31, 1888, in Boise City, Idaho.
Hays, John Coffee, consulting electrical engineer of Visalia, Cal., was born Jan. 5, 1882, in Tulare county, Cal. He is president of the Mount Whitney Power and Electric company, president of the Yasemite Power company, president of the LaGrange Water and Power company and president of the Mount Shasta Power corporation. He is a member of the American society of civil engineers and various clubs and societies. Hays, Luke C, lawyer, public ofTicial, was born May 19, 1801, in Hardin county, Ky. In 1878-86 he was deputy county clerk of his county. He then moved to South Dakota; was chief clerk of Crow Creek Indian agency until 1890; and subsequently served two terms as state's attorney of Lyman c<mnty, S.D. In 1893 he was apjMiinted Inand has filled various other dian agi'nt public offices of trust. He died in 1900. Hays, Samuel H., lawyer and banker of Boise, Idaho, was born May 18, 1864, in Wisconsin. He is president of the Idaho building and loan association.
Hays, Samuel
L.,
congressman, was born in
Pennsylvania. In 1841-43 he was a representative from Virginia to the twenty-seventh congress. He died in Stuarts Creek, Va,
Hays, William, soldier, was born in 1819 in Ilichmond. Va. He served throughout the Mexican war with the light artillery. In 1853 he was engaged in the Seminole Indian
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