BIO: Samuel Wallace HAYS, Dauphin County, PA

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Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, 
Containing Sketches of Representative Citizens, and Many of the 
Early Scotch-Irish and German Settlers.  Chambersburg, Pa.: 
J. M. Runk & Company, 1896, page 214.
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  HAYS, SAMUEL WALLACE, was born October 30, 1790, at Newville, 
Cumberland county, Pa.; died May 18, 1855, at Harrisburg, Pa.  He 
received the education so freely given by the Scotch-Irish to their 
children.  He came to Harrisburg in 1821, where he resided until 1825, 
when he went to Philadelphia, returning to the former place in 1828, 
which from that period became his permanent home.  Mr. Hays then began 
business, which he successfully carried on until a few years prior to 
his death.  He was an earnest, laborious worker in his church 
(Presbyterian), of which he was one of the ruling elders from 1840 to 
his decease.  For a period of twenty-seven years he was superintendent 
of the first infant Sunday-school, which he organized in 1828 in 
Harrisburg, and relinquished its care when failing health compelled him 
to give up his charge.  The Rev. Dr. Robinson bears this testimony of 
him:  "I remember him as a quiet, modest man and patient sufferer.  The 
little I knew of him endeared him to me. . . .  He was a warm friend 
and lover of the young, kind and genial in his intercourse with them, 
and an admirable teacher."  Mr. Hays married, September 2, 1834, 
Margaret Rebecca Moore, born August 7, 1806; died February 8, 1851, at 
Harrisburg, Pa.; daughter of Archibald Moore and Rebecca Junkin, of 
Locust Grove, Mifflin county, Pa.