Faulk County, SD Biographies.....Hays, John W. 1844 - 
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Author: C. H. Ellis



    JOHN W. HAYS was born on May 26, 1844, in the town of Scotland, county of

Albany, in the state of New York. In 1864 his father removed to Rensselear

county, New York, and in 1868 to Spottsylvania county, Virginia.



    On April 11, 1866, he was united in marriage with Miss Frances Walker of

Rensselear county, New York, and to them were born six children, viz: Charles

N., William L., John R., who died in infancy; Charlotte E., Josephine J., and

Mary Frances.



    After remaining in Virginia for a little over three years, Mr. Hays moved to

Washington, D. C., where he remained one year and then removed to Newark, N. J.,

then in 1884 he came to Faulk county and in June of that year located a

preemption on the north-east quarter of section 18, township 119, range 69. He

also secured a quarter section under the tree claim law. In the fall of 1891 Mr.

Hays removed to the city of Faulkton where he has since resided, yet continued

to carry on his farm until 1902, and is yet the possessor of 320 acres of Faulk

county land.



    Ever since coming to this county he has taken an active interest in local

political affairs, especially along the educational lines. For nearly ten years

he has held the office of justice of the peace. Mr. Hays is an outspoken,

unqualified, prohibition prohibitionist and the fact that this was at that time

a no license county, determined his location here. Since 1902, in addition to

his official duties, he has been actively engaged in buying and selling real

estate and in insurance and collections.



    Mr. Hays made no mistake in coming to Faulkton, where he has a pleasant home

and is the owner of other city property. Financially the future is abundantly

provided for, with a well established, paying business.  He is counted among our

reliable trustworthy citizens.



    At his country's call, at the breaking out of the Civil War, he was prompt

to respond. On May 4th, 1861, he enlisted at Syracuse, New York, in Company H.,

Fourteenth New York Volunteer Infantry, two years and during that time was

engaged in seventeen battles and at the expiration of his term of service, in

1863 he again enlisted in Company L., New York Cavalry, better known as "Scotts

Nine Hundred," where he served until mustered out at the end of the war.



    Mr. Hays through a long line of ancestry has a co-mingling of Scotch Irish

and French blood that became Americanised long before the Revolutionary War, in

which his great grandfather took an active part, as did his Grandfather Martin

on his mothers side of the house, in the war of 1812 and 1814.





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HISTORY OF

FAULK COUNTY

SOUTH DAKOTA

CAPTAIN C. H. ELLIS



TOGETHER WITH BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF PIONEERS AND PROMINENT CITIZENS



ILLUSTRATED

19O9

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