Lake County IN Archives Biographies.....Hayhurst, Eldon N. 1867 - 
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Author: T. H. Ball (1904)

ELDON N. HAYHURST.

    Eldon N. Hayhurst is representative of the best interests of western Lake
county, whether in industrial, social, intellectual or moral affairs. Emerson
has said that the true history of a nation is best told in the lives of its
progressive citizens, and in presenting the biographies of the foremost men of
this county there is necessarily and at the same time a recording of the most
authentic annals of Lake county's history.

    Mr. Hayhurst was born May 16, 1867, in Momence township, Kankakee county,
Illinois, being the fourth in a family of six children, four sons and two
daughters, born to Benjamin Perry and Juliet (Farrington) Hayhurst. There are
four of his brothers and sisters still living: Isadora is the wife of Hubert C.
Libheart, of Woodstock, Illinois; Alvin is a barber of Chicago; Ellsworth is a
barber in Kankakee, Illinois, and is married; Alletha is the wife of John Hart,
a carriage-maker of Connersville, Indiana.

    Mr. Hayhurst's father was born in Yellowhead township, Kankakee county,
Illinois, in December, 1838, and died in March, 1883, being of English lineage.
He was reared to farm pursuits and was educated in the public schools. He
enlisted as a Union soldier in Company K, Seventy-sixth Illinois Infantry, and
was at the siege of Vicksburg and with Sherman on the march to the sea. He
served as a boy in blue for two years, and then received an honorable discharge.
He was a Republican in politics. His wife survives him and is a resident of
Attica, Indiana, being sixty years of age.

    Mr. Eldon N. Hayhurst lived the first seventeen years of his life in
Illinois. and received his education in the common schools. He has depended on
his own energy and resources for success in life, and is truly a self-made man.
At the age of sixteen he hired out for a wage of sixteen dollars a month, and
when he began life on his own account at the age of majority he had a small
capital.

    On December 22, 1886, he was married to Miss Lizzie Hayden, and five
children have been born to them, all but one living at the present time. Lyrrel,
the eldest, received her diploma from the schools in 1902, and has also taken a
year of high school work, being especially fond of the sciences; she has taken
about five years of piano instruction and is a lover of music and accomplished
in the art beyond the average of young ladies. Kitchell, who is in the eighth
grade of school, has also taken some music instruction. Eleanor is in the third
grade, and the youngest of the family is Ruby. Mrs. Hayhurst was born December
30, 1866, in Kankakee county, and is a daughter of John and Rachel (Dodge)
Hayden, whose histories are told on other pages of this volume. The Hayden
family is one of the oldest and most progressive in Lake county, and its various
members have taken a prominent part in developing its resources. The lineage of
the family is English. Mrs. Hayhurst was reared in her native county until her
marriage.

    Mr. and Mrs. Hayhurst began domestic life as tenant farmers on eighty acres
of land in West Creek township, and continued as renters until 1896. They then
purchased one hundred and thirty-three acres of good land with modern
improvements, and as they were continually prospered in their endeavors, in 1901
they bought eighty acres just east of their original estate. On April 7, 1904,
they purchased one hundred and sixty acres in Hand county, South Dakota, near
Wessington, and they now have fine property holdings and are in comfortable
circumstances as a reward of past industry and effective management. Mr.
Hayhurst takes much pride in his Percheron horses, and raises only good grades
of live-stock. He is a Republican in politics, and his active participation in
public affairs as a voter began with the campaign of Benjamin Harrison. He has
served as a delegate to the county conventions at various times. Fraternally he
affiliates with Lodge No. 300 of the Knights of Pythias at Lowell, and the
choice of himself and wife as to churches has favored the Christian denomination.


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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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