R. E. Hayes Biography


	This biography appears on page 863 in "History of South 
	Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. I (1904) and was scanned, 
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	R. E. HAYES, senior member of the firm of Haves & Black, dealers 
in grain and agricultural implements in Pollock, Campbell county, 
merits mention in this work as one of the representative business men 
of this section of the state.  

	Mr. Hayes is a native of the old Keystone state, having been born 
in Erie county, Pennsylvania, on the 24th of December, 1862. The 
subject was reared in his native county and his educational advantages 
were those afforded in its public schools. He continued to reside in 
Pennsylvania until 1882 when he came to what is now the state of South 
Dakota, where he joined his uncle. J. L. Thompson, who had come here 
two years previously and located on a ranch near Vanderbilt, on the 
Missouri river. Our subject remained with his uncle for one year and 
thereafter passed one year in a store on Beaver creek, North Dakota. He 
then returned to Vanderbilt. where he continued in the same line of 
enterprise and also engaged in the cattle business until 1894, when he 
went to the Cheyenne Indian agency. where he assisted in the conduct of 
a trading business there conducted by J. E. Horton. One and one-half 
years later Mr. Hayes removed to Eureka, McPherson county, where he 
engaged in the buying and shipping of grain until the autumn of 1901, 
when he came to Pollock. He removed to this place a warehouse from 
Eureka, transporting the building on wagons and bought the first grain 
ever shipped from this station, the same being stored on the ground 
while the weight was determined by guessing as definitely as possible. 
His partner, David Black, accompanied him from Eureka, and they have 
been since associated in business. Pollock has become an important 
station for the shipping of grain, and in addition to this important 
feature of their business the firm also handle agricultural implements 
and machinery, flour, coal, etc., and they have built up a prosperous 
industry and gained the unqualified confidence and esteem of the people 
of the section covered by their operations.