Sevier-Utah County UT Archives Biographies.....Hayes, Henry Nephi 1867 - 
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JUDGE HENRY NEPHI HAYES.

    Judge Henry Nephi Hayes, presiding over the sixth district court of the
state of Utah, his district embracing the counties of Sevier, Wayne, Piute,
Garfield, and Kane, was born at Pleasant Grove, Utah, January 28, 1867. His
father, John J. Hayes, was a native of Ireland and was a preacher of the
Methodist church. He came to America in 1853, after being converted to the faith
of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and settled first at Lehi
and then at Pleasant Grove, Utah, where he followed the occupation of
shoemaking. He was a man of education and of studious nature and his constant
companions were the Bible, the Book of Mormon and the Deseret News. He prided
himself on being able to name the chapter wherein was to be found any three
verses that were quoted or read to him from the Bible. He was an earnest and
consistent believer in the teachings of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints and labored faithfully and effectively to advance the cause. For many
years he was president of one of the quorums of Seventies. The mother of Judge
Hayes was in her maidenhood Rachel Wagstaff, whose people were English converts
to the Mormon teachings before coming to America. This family name Is found in
every history of Utah that has been written, so prominent and active a part have
the members of the family taken in the upbuilding of the state.

    Judge Hayes was educated in the public schools of Pleasant Grove and in the
Brigham Young University at Provo, from which he was graduated with the class of
1887. He then took up the profession of teaching, which he followed in Sevier
county until 1895, during five years of which time he was county superintendent
of schools, and afterward he matriculated in the University of Michigan at Ann
Arbor, where he specialized in the study of law. He was there graduated with the
degree of LL. B. with the class of 1897 and was admitted to practice at the bar
of that state. Returning to Utah, he was in the following year elected county
clerk, a position which he filled for two years. He was subsequently elected
county attorney of Sevier county for two different terms. For twelve years he
filled the position of president of the board of education. What the Judge
considers as the best effort of his life was performed while he was a member of
the state board of land commissioners under Governor Cutler, which position he
held for four years-being the only democratic member of the board at the time-in
using his influence to promote the building of the great Piute reservoir and the
state canal leading therefrom. The canal supplies water to more than twenty
thousand acres of land in southern Utah and it was Judge Hayes who was
instrumental in helping the many_ farmers who have been benefited by the
improvement which he was thus a potent factor in promoting. He has closely
studied the opportunities and conditions of his section of the state and has
labored untiringly to further development and improvement along the lines of
permanent benefit.

    In 1892, Judge Hayes was married to Miss Emma Heppler of Sevier county. Ten
children were the issue of this marriage, eight of whom are living: La Verne,
who was in France for twenty months attached to the adjutant general's office of
the American Expeditionary Forces; Grant E., who is operating the farms
belonging to his father in Sevier county; Henry Dean, who is a student in a
preparatory college of the east, preparing for admission to the Naval Academy at
Annapolis; Maxine, who is a high school pupil; Elese; Beth; Zar, and Kathleen.

    In politics Judge Hayes is an old-time democrat and was for many years
chairman of the county democratic central committee. He is the president of the
Richfield Commercial Club and is county chairman of the Red Cross. He takes an
active interest in all public -affairs and can be relied upon to aid every
worthy enterprise that promises benefit for his town, county or state. In 1916
he was elected judge of the sixth district court for a term of four years and
has given general satisfaction to lawyers and litigants alike. His knowledge of
the law is comprehensive and exact and is combined with justice and fairness in
his decisions, so that but few of them have been reversed by the supreme court.
His name is inscribed high upon the judicial records of the state and as lawyer
and jurist he stands among the distinguished representatives of the Utah bar.


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UTAH SINCE STATEHOOD
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VOLUME IV
CHICAGO-SALT LAKE: THE S. J. CLARKE PUBLISHING COMPANY
1920


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