Crawford County IA Archives Biographies.....Hayes, J. H. 1841 - 
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Author: Lewis Publishing Co. (1893)

J. H. HAYES, well known throughout Crawford county as a successful stockman, has
a fine farm of 500 acres, located in section 12, Washington township, and has
been identified with the interests of this place since 1883.

   Mr. Hayes dates his birth in Stephenson county, Illinois, May 7, 1850. His
father, Samuel Hayes, a native of Northumberland county, Pennsylvania, located
in Illinois in 1844, becoming one of the earliest pioneers of that place and one
of its most prominent citizens, and remaining there for a number of years. He
died at Warsaw, Illinois, at the age of eighty-one years. He was a tanner by
trade, but during the greater part of his life was engaged in farming and
stock-raising. The mother of our subject was before her marriage Miss Mary
Hutchinson. She was born in Union county, Pennsylvania, lived to be seventy-nine
years of age, and died at Warsaw, Illinois. They had five sons and one daughter.
Four of the sons were in the late war, namely: John, who served four years as a
member of the Eleventh Illinois Infantry, is now a resident of Stephenson
county, Illinois, having been County Sheriff four years; Pussell, who was first
a member of the Eleventh Illinois Infantry, was wounded and was afterward
attached to the One Hundred and Forty-sixth Illinois Infantry as Captain of
Company E, is now Deputy United States Marshal of Chicago; Samuel, also a member
of the One Hundred and Forty-sixth Illinois Infantry, is now Senior Professor of
the Law School of Iowa City; and Robert, who served in the One Hundred and
Forty-second Illinois Infantry, is now principal of the East Dubuque School.

   J. H. Hayes was reared and educated in Stephenson county, Illinois, and for
some time was engaged in teaching. In 1871 he went to South Dakota and in Turner
county spent the following two or three years. He then returned to Stephenson
county, where he was engaged in farming until 1882. He next traveled over
various portions of the West, looking for a location, and in 1883 settled here.
His farm had been partly improved by Ed Trowbridge, and Mr. Hayes has brought it
up to its present high state of development. The cottage home is surrounded 
with orchard and grove, and the barn, stock scales, windmill, and, in short,
everything about the place has an air of general prosperity. He buys and sells
stock, dealing chiefly in cattle, and usually keeps about 100 head of cattle on
his farm.

   Mr. Hayes was married at Galena, Illinois, December 15, 1880, to Mary Evans,
who was born in England and educated at Galena. Her father is now a resident of
Galena, her mother having died in England. Mr. and Mrs. Hayes have five
children: Mary, Fanny Belle, Hellen, James H. and Robert Russell.

   In his political views Mr. Hayes is an independent. While in Stephenson
county, Illinois, he served as County Supervisor; has been Township Trustee
here. His wife is a member of the Baptist Church. They are people of
intelligence and true worth, and are held in high esteem by all who know them.


Additional Comments:
Extracted From:

BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY OF 
Crawford, Ida and Sac Counties, Iowa.

Containing Portraits of all the Presidents of the United States, with
accompanying Biographies; a Condensed History of Iowa, with Portraits and
Biographies of the Governors of the State; Engravings of Prominent Citizens of
the Counties, wth [sic] Personal Histories of many of the Early Settlers and
Leading Families.

"Biography is the only true history."—Emerson.

CHICAGO: THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY.
1893.


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