The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1893-01-19

ma. rlayr- rrrnaansa IN aDsorute retirement at !
his home in Fremont, O., up to the time of his |
death. Mr.. Hayes career furnishes one of the
most interesting chapters in the political his |
tory of the United States.
He was born in Delaware, o., Oct. 4, lS2s2, his
father having died the preceding July. He was
graduated with honor from Kenyon college,
Ohio, in August, 1892, attended Harvard law
school for little over q year, and was admitted
to the bar In 1S45. In November, 1S4S, his
health being somewhat impaiyed, he went to
Texas for the winter, and after period of un-
settlement, located in Cincinnati the next
winter. In civil cases his practice was not very
large. but he won considerable reputation as q
prosecutor in criminal cases and gained the
friendship of such men as salmon r. Cnase'
Thomas Ewing, Thomas Corwin, Moncure u.
Conway and Stanley Matthews.
Nobody knew Him.
And here is found the first evidences Of the
greatest peculiarity of the man. During all
the years he was in Cincinnati no one seems TO
have taken q deep interest in him, and when
he became subject of national inquiry Gin
cinnati could furnish no "reminiscences of him.
The general expression of the old citizen was,
"Yes, he was city solicitor, and | knew him,
but that's all.n He was quiet, stud10us ana
rather reticent.
On Dec 30 1852 he married Miss Lucy Ware
Webb. daughter of DIR. James Webb, physi-
clan of high social standing In Chillicothe. VI
their eight children four sons and one daughter
reached maturity. Mrs. Hayes was noted for
her devotion to sick and wounded soldiers
| during the war. and to temperance and public
charities in peace. Her refusal to have wine
| served in TIE White House during her sway
| there gave her world wide fame, and for that
| action she received many testimonials OF
| esteem, both from Europe and America.
| His Army Record.
| Under the first call for troops by President
/ Lincoln the literary club of which Mr.. Hayes
was a member organized q company, and ht
was elected captain. aid on the 7th of Junt
| following the governor of Ohio commissioner
him major of the Twenty-third regiment Ohit
/ infantry.
| 1t is both amusing and instructive to go ovel
| the roll of this regiment and note how man!
| great men were concealed in 1t under sucl
| modest titles as Colonels w. ). Rosecrans ans
| James NJ. Comlay. Lieutenant Colonel StanIe.
Matthews, Lieutenant William Mckinney, Jr
and others.
He was commissioned lieutenant colone
Oct. "a, 1854, and greatly distinguished him :
at the battle of South Mountain, Oct. IA, II Z
where he was severely wounded. Soon afte
| he became colonel of the regiment. and as sue
particularly distinguished himself In man
movements and battles. He led desperat
charge on Cloyd mountain, and at the first ba'
Il
whole army. But ii was at the secona bal
4 tie of Winchester. September 10, 1854, that
| won immortal honors.
There he led an assault across morass, an
his horse having mired he charged on foo
and though but forty or fifty men followed
close as to keep up with him this squad cal
tured q battery which had been deemed pei
fectly secure. Again at Fishers Hill an
Cedar Greek he perforro"l prodigies OF yalo
| His commission as tEc ier general soon al
rived, and on III n. 1885. he was mad
brevet brigadier g. fir sllant and di
4 tinguished services. In the meantime ne ma
been elected to congress from Cincinnati di
trict.
After the War.
!, General Hayes was elected to congress
i 1884 and again in 1865 In 1867 he was elect,
governor of Ohio, serving three terms.
OF his presidential campaign In 1879 litt
J | need be said. His usual luck of getting the
i by very narrow marg.as" followed him.
q In financial affairs his administration '
an unqualified success. 1t was his good fortu
T to become president just at the time wh
e panic and depression were giving way to "bt
ter times Seven years of unexampled defit
in the crops of Western Europe and equal
, unexampled good crops in the United Stat
made the resumption of specie payments pt
sible. The exports of grain in one year OF ]
administration exceeded the ten year avera
q L DeEOT6 the NdEs dIiu ulC, 9CoA . 70 va -"
were greater than all the previous gold impol
since the administration of James X. Polk.
b The exports Of wheat alone for the ten yea
r terminating with june lSSk tonly four mont
after President Hayes retired exceeded
e preceding wheat exports since the country W
I. settled. Providence had indeed come to
aid of the country, and President Hayes q
his able finance minister, John Sherman, b
| the nerve to seize the opportunity.
Mrs. Hayes died in Fremont in 1889. On I
le day of her funeral thousands of persons, ma
l. of them in the humber walks of life, cal
: from the surrounding country to pay the i
" tribute of respect to her who had been SO u
p versally beloved. From early morning IN
20 the hour set for the obseqnies an unendi
stream of visitors poured in through the frt
pc door of the homestead to take farewell 10
le at the face of the benevolent, but decie
!. woman who had passed away.
III The ex-president's daughter, Miss Far
l. Hayes, presided over the affairs of the hou
,a hold after the death of her mother.