Clarence E. Hayward Biography


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	Co., Chicago, 1899. Pages 559-560

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CLARENCE E. HAYWARD, a genial and popular citizen and a successful 
business man of Eden township, Clark county, is carrying on operations 
as a general farmer, stock raiser and dealer in agricultural 
implements, real estate and grain, his home being near the village of 
Garden City. He has so thoroughly identified himself with the business 
and political interests of the county that this volume would be 
incomplete without a record of his life. As secretary and manager of 
the Garden City Creamery and one of the prime agitators for the 
erection of the plant -one of the finest in the state -he has served 
his fellow townsmen in a manner that will at some future day be fully 
appreciated. As a member of the county central committee, he has worked 
untiringly for the interests of the Republican party, and in fact the 
political field is his exercise ground as it were, being the means by 
which he relieves the monotony of a humdrum business life and provides 
for himself an endless source of amusement. In 1895 he served as 
engrossing and enrolling clerk at the capitol, and in matters of local 
import he has ever taken an active and prominent part. His life is that 
of the typical energetic man who came to a new country with less than 
nothing, being considerably in debt, and by determination and push made 
a success where others failed, made a home and secured influence while 
others became discouraged and left. 

A native of Maine, Mr. Hayward was born in Kennebec county, August 4, 
1858, and is the second child in a family of five, whose parents were 
Thomas F. and Laura (Perkins) Hayward. He remained in his native state 
until twenty-three years of age, attending first a high school and 
later the Monmouth Academy, from which he was graduated. He would have 
studied law had not failure of eye-sight prevented him. He taught 
school for a time both in Maine and New York state, and for two years 
was employed as a collector. In 1881 he went to Wisconsin and the 
following year pushed farther west to Clark county, South Dakota, where 
he took up land in Eden township, on which he now resides. At that time 
he was five hundred dollars in debt and had but one hundred dollars in 
his pocket, with which to begin life in his new home. He built a 
shanty, 6 x8 feet, and during the first year spent here he worked for 
others by the month. The following year he enlarged his "mansion," 
making it 6 x 14 feet, and about this time entered the employ of the 
Milwaukee Railroad Company, buying town sites and rights of way. From 
1887 until 1889 he edited the "Pilot Review" at Clark, but during the 
latter year returned to Garden City and entered the employ of the 
Empire Elevator Company, with which he remained for eight years. In 
1899 he purchased of Douglas & Company, of Minneapolis, their elevator, 
situated at Garden City and engaged in the purchase of grain as an 
independent buyer. He has steadily prospered in his undertakings and is 
now the owner of seven hundred and forty acres of land, which he rents, 
and has a fine herd of graded short-horn milch cows which he has kept 
for him on shares. He is a wide awake, enterprising business man, and a 
citizen of whom any community might be proud. He was married in 1892 to 
Miss Alice Armitage.