Will County IL Archives Biographies.....Hayward, Charles B 1843 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/il/ilfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Deb Haines ddhaines@gmail.com May 9, 2007, 9:49 pm Author: Portrait & Bio Album, 1890 CHARLES B. HAYWARD. No more genial, companionable or intelligent gentleman is to be found in the city of Joliet than the above-named, who is at the head of the C. B. Hayward Printing Company. He thoroughly understands the printer's trade, in which he has had practical experience, and for quite a number of years was an editor, gaining high rank in journalistic circles for his energy, versatility and unchanging devotion to principle. During the late war he passed through trying scenes but no amount of persecution or danger could turn him from his devotion to what he thought right. Those who wielded the pen in defense of the Union exerted an influence which cannot be measured, and to them honor belongs as well as to those who served their country on the tented field. In the Hoosier State in the first half of the nineteenth century, lived Thomas Hayward and two brothers, who managed a tannery at Fairfield. Thomas married Miss May A. Hill, among the members of their family being a son, C. B., who opened his eyes to the light July 1, 1843. He had one brother and two sisters, all-living. About 1855 the parents removed to Columbus, Ind., whence four years later they moved to Indianapolis and lived there until 1859, and then removed to Carthage, Mo. During the war Mr. Hayward removed to Ft. Scott, Kan., at its close becoming a resident of Springfield, Mo., where he died in 1869. At the age of ten years, he of whom we write went to Indianapolis to learn the trade of a printer, remaining there about five years, and then accompanying his parents to Carthage, Mo., where he opened a news and job office. His Union sentiments aroused the Southerners, who compelled him to take refuge, along with others, in Kansas. He then went to Ft. Scott and established the Ft. Scott Monitor, securing a military escort to bring his family hither from his former home. While at Ft. Scott he was appointed United States Deputy Revenue Collector. At the close of the war he removed to Springfield, Mo., where he engaged in the printing business. The next place of abode of Mr. Hayward was Marseilles, Ill., to which place he came in 1870, taking up the occupation of traveling agent for the paper mill at that point. The following year he came to Joliet and took charge of the job printing department of the Republican. In 1872 he started the Joliet Sun, which he published ten years, selling it at the expiration of that period to the Republican. In 1883, he went to Santa Fe, N. M., where he was connected with the New Mexican Printing Company. Being appointed Postmaster by President Arthur in 1884, at Santa Fe, he held that position until 1886, when he returned to Joliet. On New Years Day following he organized the company which he still manages, although on April 1, 1890, the firm name was changed to the C. B. Hayward Company. April 7, 1872, Mr. Hayward married Miss May E. Munroe, at the home of the bride's father, George Munroe, Joliet, April 7, 1872. Mr. and Mrs. Hayward are the happy parents of four living children: Josie, Thomas, Charles M., and Ruth, and mourn the death of a son, George, who was taken from them September 14, 1881. Mr. Hayward is recognized as among the leading Republicans of this county and this part of Illinois. Additional Comments: Portrait and Biographical Album of Will County, Illinois, Containing Full Page Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens of the County; Chicago: Chapman Bros., 1890 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/il/will/bios/hayward549gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/ilfiles/ File size: 4.1 Kb