Lake County IN Archives Biographies.....Hayes, Benjamin F. 1859 - 
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Author: T. H. Ball (1904)

BENJAMIN F. HAYES.

    Benjamin F. Hayes, of 206 Hohman street, Hammond, has been connected with
business and public affairs in Lake county for a number of years, and is a man
of recognized ability and sterling integrity, with an excellent record of
successful effort since taking up the active duties of life.

    He was born at Muscatine, Iowa, April 4, 1859, a son of Maurice and Julia
(Guinea) Hayes, natives of Ireland. His great-grandfather lived to be nearly a
hundred years old, and his grandfather also died when well advanced in years.
The latter came to America and settled in Connecticut. Maurice Hayes learned the
tailor's trade, and from Connecticut moved, about 1856, to Muscatine, Iowa,
where he died, when still a young man, in 1860. His wife survived him until
1872, when she was thirty-eight years old, and by her second husband, Philip
Myers, she had three children. The family were all Catholics in religious faith.
Maurice and Julia Hayes had two sons and two daughters: John, of Sulphur
Springs, Ohio; Ella, wife of Edward Rader, of Rapid City, Michigan; Beulah, wife
of William J. Wallace, of Chicago Heights, Illinois; and Benjamin F., of Hammond.

    When Mr. B. F. Hayes was three years old his mother moved to Chicago, and he
remained there and received his education until after the great fire of 1871. He
then went to Crown Point, Indiana, and attended the public schools for a year or
so, and that was his principal home for twenty-five years. He learned the
butcher's trade and followed it for some years. In 1894 he was elected sheriff
of Lake county, being re-elected in 1896, and gave a most efficient
administration of that office for four years. Since then his health has been
rather poor, and he has traveled a good deal, and in business his attention has
been confined mainly to real estate dealings, he having transacted a number of
important transfers in this county. He took up his residence in Hammond in the
spring of 1903. He owns property here and also near Crown Point.

    Mr. Hayes affiliates with the Knights of Pythias and the Benevolent and
Protective Order of Elks. His wife is a member of the Methodist church. He is a
Republican in politics, and has served in the township council, as road
supervisor and constable, and for two terms was marshal of Crown Point.

    On Christmas day of 1877 he married Miss Nettie L. Maxwell, a daughter of
William and Roxanna (Jarvis) Maxwell. Her father was a native of Ireland and her
mother of New York. There were eight children in the family, two sons and six
daughters, and six are now living: Carrie Adell, the deceased wife of Samuel R.
Smith; Nettie L., Mrs. Hayes; Emma F., wife of William Birkley, of Crown Point;
Douglas, of Deep River, Lake county; Edith M.; Lewis E., of this county; Georgia
B., wife of Lafay Wilkie, of Buffalo, New York; and Jennie, deceased. Mrs.
Hayes' father, was a farmer, coming from Ireland and settling at Westville, New
York, when a young man, thence came west and lived in Wisconsin eight years,
moved from there to Illinois, and in 1865 to Indiana. He died in 1876, aged
forty-eight years. His father, also William, died in Lake county well advanced
in years, having been the father of a good-sized family. The maternal
grandfather of Mrs. Hayes was Alexander Jarvis, a native of Ireland, whence he
came to the United States about 1834 and located at Westville, New York. He was
a farmer. His wife was Margaret Henry, and they had eleven children. His father,
Joseph Jarvis, died in Ireland.


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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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