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RUTHERFORD BIRCHARD HAYES was the nineteenth president of the United States and served from 1877 to 1881. He
was born October 4, 1822, at Delaware, Ohio, and his ancestry can be traced back as far as 1280, when Hayes and
Rutherford were two Scottish chieftans fighting side by side with Baliol, William Wallace and Robert Bruce. The
Hayes family had for a coat of arms, a shield, barred and surmounted by a flying eagle. There was a circle of stars
about the eagle, while on a scroll underneath was their motto, ''Recte." Misfortune overtook the family and
in 1680 George Hayes, the progenitor of the American family, came to Connecticut and settled at Windsor. Rutherford
B. Hayes was a very delicate child at his birth and was not expected to live, but he lived in spite of all and
remained at home until he was seven years old, when he was placed in school. He was a very tractablepupil, being
always very studious, and in 1838 entered Kenyon College, graduating from the same in 1842. He then took up the
study of law in the office of Thomas Sparrow at Columbus, but in a short time he decided to enter a law school
at Cambridge, Massachusetts, where for two years he was immersed in the study of law. Mr. Hayes was admitted to
the bar in 1845 in Marietta, Ohio, and very soon entered upon the active practice of his profession with Ralph
P. Buckland, of Fremont, Ohio. He remained there three years, and in 1849 removed to Cincinnati, Ohio, where his
ambition found a new stimulus. Two events occurred at this period that had a powerful influence on his after life.
One was his marriage to Miss Lucy Ware Webb, and the other was his introduction to a Cincinnati literary club,
a body embracing such men as Salmon P. Chase, John Pope, and Edward F. Noyes. in 1856 he was nominated for judge
of the court of common pleas, but declined, and two years later he was appointed city solicitor. At the outbreak
of the Rebellion Mr. Hayes was appointed major of the Twenty third Ohio Infantry, June 7, 1861, and in July the
regiment was ordered to Virginia, and October 15, 1861, saw him promoted to the lieutenant colonelcy of his regiment.
He was made colonel of the Seventy ninth Ohio Infantry, but refused to leave his old comrades; and in the battle
of South Mountain he was wounded very severely and was unable to rejoin his regiment until November 30, 1862. He
had been promoted to the colonelcy of the regiment on October 15, 1862. In the following December he was appointed
to command the Kanawa division and was given the rank of brigadier general for meritorious services in several
battles, and in 1864 he was brevetted major general for distinguished services in 1864, during which campaign he
was wounded several times and five horses had been shot under him. Mr. Hayes' first venture in politics was as
a Whig, and later he was one of the first to unite with the Republican party. In 1864 he was elected from the Second
Ohio district to congress, reelected in 1866, and in 1867 was elected governor of Ohio over Allen G. Thurman, and
was reelected in 1869. Mr. Hayes was elected to the presidency in 1876, for the term of four years, and at its
close retired to private life, and went to his home in Frernont, Ohio, where he died on January 17, 1893.
FROM:
A Biographical Record
Of Schuyler County, New York
The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company
New York and Chicago 1903.
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