Lake County IN Archives Biographies.....Hayden, William N. 1855 - 
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Author: T. H. Ball (1904)

WILLIAM N. HAYDEN.

    Emerson has said that the true history of a nation is best told in the lives
of its most prominent citizens and residents, and in Mr. William N. Hayden, the
trustee of West Creek township and a prosperous farmer, we have a representative
of one of the most prominent families of the county of Lake. He is a native of
Lake county, was born May 24, 1855, and is the youngest of the fourteen children
born to his father by two marriages, he being the only son and child of the
second union. His parents are Nehemiah and Sarah (Smith) Hayden, and the full
record of this worthy family in the earlier generations is given in connection
with the biography of the elder Hayden in another portion of this volume.

    Mr. Hayden was reared in Lake county and was educated in the common schools.
He was brought up to agricultural pursuits, and in the continuation of these has
made his best success. His commencement in life was not remarkably auspicious,
and possibly he and his wife had not more than four hundred dollars cash capital
when they set their feet upon the highroad of life and began to tread their way
through circumstance and earnest endeavor and useful purpose to a worthy and
successful goal. He was married to Miss Maria J. Edmonds, on August 21, 1876, in
Crown Point. They began as renters, and continued in that way until they had a
secure start, which was not long. They then located on eighty acres which they
had purchased, going in debt for most of it, but their frugal industry and
enterprise more than offset the debt. They thus began life happy but not
full-handed, and by their continued co-operation and faithful toil from year to
year they added to their possessions until now they own in fee simple two
hundred and seventeen acres of fine land, all in West Creek township. And the
best part of the record is that they have gained this property by their own
industry and efforts.

    Mrs. Hayden was born in Lake county, March 13, 1858, the youngest of the six
children of Melvin and Sarah (Leffler) Edmonds. Her brothers and sisters are:
Nelson, a resident and retired farmer of Lowell, and married; Nancy, who is the
wife of Charles Morgan, a farmer and resident of West Creek township; Charles,
who was a soldier and an active participant in the battles of the Civil war, and
is now a resident of Kansas; Mary, who is the wife of Wallace Hayden, a resident
and retired fanner of Lowell; Eli, who for many years followed farming and is
now a resident of West Creek township, and is married. Mrs. Hayden's father was
a native of Canada, and died in 1874 at the age of sixty-three years. He
followed farming, and in politics was a Republican. Mrs. Hayden was reared in
Lake county and received her education in the common schools.

    To the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Hayden have been born two children, a son
and a daughter, both living. Jodie M. is a citizen of West Creek township and a
prosperous young farmer. He married Miss Lura Pulver. He completed his education
in the common schools of this county, had two years' work in the Lowell high
school, and also took a business course in the Dixon Business College at Dixon,
Illinois. For two years he was telegraph operator at Lowell for the Monon
Railroad. Edna S., the daughter, is at home. She finished two years of high
school work, and at the age of seventeen she took the teachers' examination and
passed creditably. But on account of being so young she did not begin active
work in the teaching profession until she was eighteen. She has taught three
years in her home township, and has been very successful in her work. She has
also studied music.

    Mr. Hayden is a Republican in politics, and cast his first vote for Hayes,
having upheld his party's principles ever since. In 1899 he was elected township
trustee of West Creek township. He has the supervision of fourteen schools in
addition to the numerous other duties of this important office. He has about
seventy-five square miles of territory to cover in this township, and he devotes
himself assiduously to his administrative duties. He is a member of Cedar Camp
No. 5155, Modern Woodmen, and has held office in this order. He and his wife are
members of the Methodist Episcopal church at Lowell. Mr. and Mrs. Hayden are
citizens of high social standing, and it is with pleasure that this brief
history of their lives can be placed in this genealogical record of Lake county.


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ENCYCLOPEDIA
OF
Genealogy and Biography
OF
LAKE COUNTY, INDIANA,
WITH A COMPENDIUM OF HISTORY 
1834—1904

A Record of the Achievements of Its People in the Making of a Commonwealth and
the Founding of a Nation.

REV. T. H. BALL
OF CROWN POINT, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
ILLUSTRATED
CHICAGO   NEW YORK
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
1904


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