A. B. HAYES - Biography

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This biography appears on page 655 in History of Racine and Kenosha Counties, Wisconsin...
published by the Western Historical Co.: 1879.

A. B. HAYES, farmer, Sec. 28; P. O. Union Grove; born in Westchester
Co., West Farms, N. Y., June 11, 1838; his name was Abraham Bolton, but,
at an early age he became one of the family of Mr. Jas. Hayes, and was
afterward christened by that name; cameto Wisconsin with Mr. Hayes,
June, 1846, when 8 years old, and was with him until he reached the age
of 22, when he settled on eighty acres in Section. 33, Yorkville;
shortly after, Mrs. Hayes came to live with her adopted son, and died
Oct. 7, 1870, at the age of 70. Mr. A. B. Hayes married, on Jan. 1,
1860, Dorothy A. Yates, daughter of James Yates, of Yorkville; have had
eight children- Martha, born July 9, 1862; James, Nov. 9, 1863; Louisa,
Feb. 3, 1865; William, Jan. 11, 1867; Dougherty, May 22, 1868, and died
Sept. 5, 1869; Elizabeth, born July 8, 1870; Charles, Feb. 26, 1872;
Robert, June 12, 1874. Mr. Hayes is a self-made man, and deserves credit
for the position he now holds. He has a fine farm of 270 acres and a
comfortable home. Mr. Hayes has been Town Assessor two terms, and he is
now in his second term of the Chairmanship of the Town Board. Mr. Hayes
will be 41 years old June 11. His farm is now provided with improved
stock.