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Author: Past and Present of Will County, IL; 1907

F. D. HAYNES. The American people glory in individual achievement. They are 
making history and the nation has largely revolutionized the business of the 
civilized world through its inventions and its manufactures. In all parts of 
the country have sprung up large and important industrial concerns according 
to the natural resources of the district and Joliet is not lacking in its 
industrial progress or in men capable of organizing and controlling extensive 
manufacturing interests. A representative of this class in Will county is F. 
D. Haynes, now superintendent of the Rockdale mill, manufacturers of American 
steel and wire, in which connection he has supervision over the labors of 
twelve hundred employes. Mr. Haynes is a native of Boston, Massachusetts, born 
November 15, 1858. The ancestral history is traced back to his maternal great-
grandfather, Alanson Whitman, who was one of the first settlers of 
Londonderry, Vermont, and a farmer by occupation. He also conducted one of the 
old time grist mills in Londonderry. The grandfather of our subject, Alanson 
Whitman, Jr., became the manufacturer of wood materials in the Green Mountain 
state. In early life he walked from Londonderry, Vermont, to Boston, where he 
began trucking with a two wheeled hand cart and in that way he made his start 
in the business world. He afterward returned to his old home, where he became 
connected with the wood-working business, which developed into an important 
industrial enterprise and was a source of considerable wealth to the owner. 
Mr. Whitman also figured prominently in public affairs as he gave evidence of 
his broad capability and for four terms he was elected to represent his 
district in the Vermont legislature. He was thus recognized as a very 
prominent man of his day, leaving the impress of his individuality upon the 
commercial and political history of his state. Our subject’s paternal 
grandfather was Mathias Haynes. who lived to the advanced age of ninety-two 
years and spent his entire life on a farm, which was a part of the tract 
granted to his father by King George. He was a man of prominence in his 
community and was a member of the house of representatives of New Hampshire 
for six years. Mathias Haynes, Jr., the father of our subject;, was born in 
Wolfboro, New Hampshire, and after learning the carpenters trade established a 
business of his own at Weston, Vermont, where he resided for thirty-two years. 
There he held the office of selectman. He removed from Boston, Massachusetts, 
to Weston, where he died in 1902, while his wife passed away in 1899. She bore 
the maiden name of Mary Whitman and was a native of Boston. F. D. Haynes. 
their only child, acquired a limited education in the public schools, which he 
attended to the age of fourteen years, when he left home to make his own way 
in the world. He learned the jewelers trade, serving a four years 
apprenticeship, after which he secured employment in a wood factory in western 
Vermont, spending about four years there in a novelty works, in which he 
became assistant foreman. He was next employed by the Eagle Square 
Manufacturing Company at South Shaftsbury, Vermont, one of the three concerns 
in the United States that made squares. There he continued for three years and 
was next connected with the Iowa Barbed Wire Company at Allentown, 
Pennsylvania, for twelve years being foreman in that establishment. In May, 
1902, he came to Joliet to take charge of the mill of which he has since-been 
superintendent. He has now been with the corporation for sixteen consecutive 
years and has charge of the entire plant, employing twelve hundred men. They 
manufacture steel wire fences, plain and black annealed wire, bale ties, 
staples, nails, sulphate of iron, etc., and their products are shipped to all 
parts of the world. Mr. Haynes' long experience in manufacturing lines well 
qualifies him for the onerous duties which devolve upon him in this 
connection. The plant covers twenty-eight acres with nine large buildings, 
which are thoroughly modern and well equipped for the conduct of a business of 
this character. Mr. Haynes is a member of the Masonic fraternity and of the 
Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He was married in 1881 to Miss Stella G. 
Tubbs, of Boston, Massachusetts, and they have one son, Hugh W. Haynes, a 
civil engineer, who is the last male representative of the Haynes family. Mr. 
Haynes has made steady progress in the business world, displaying that 
capability and fidelity which always win recognition and which constitute one 
of the strongest foundations upon which to build the superstructure of 
success. 

Additional Comments:
PAST AND PRESENT OF WILL COUNTY, ILLINOIS By W. W. Stevens President of the 
Will County Pioneers Association; Chicago: The S. J. Clarke Publishing 
Company, 1907

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