San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-01-18
EX-PRESIDENT HAYS.
He Passes Away Full OF Years
and HOnurs


The morning dispatches bring the news
OF the sudden and unexpected deaf h. of ex-
President Rutherford Il. Hayes, at his
home in Fremont, Ohio. at IL o'clock last
light. Mr.. Hayes had been confined to
Is room for some days, but was reported
l Ich better and his death was very I'M
expected. The telegraph report contains
nothing but the bare statement of death,
as the severe storms prevailing at the
north have rendered the transmission of
intelligence very difficult.
Rutherford Brchard Hays, nineteenth
president Of the United States, was born
at Delaware, Ohio, Oct. 4th, 1922, few
weeks after the death of his father. He
graduated at Kenyon college In 1912,
taking the highest honors Of his class.
He completed his law cOuse at Harvard
and was admitted to practice in the Ohio
courts, Nav 10, 1S45.
Dec. 80, 1852, he married Miss Lucy N.
Webb, daughter OF prominent Ohio ply
stefan.
His first public office was "cty solicit
or" of Cincinnati in 1858, he having de-
clined a nomination as common pleas
judge in 1856.
He joined the republican party on its
organization, having been a Clay whig
prior to that time.
Tie was appointed major of volunteers
iq the 23rd Ohio Infantry, June 9TH, 1861,
and served with distinction until the war
closed, retiring with rank of major gen.
eral. He took his seat In congress In 1865,
was nominated for governor OF Ohio in
1867, aud was elected. Was reelected In
1869, having no opposition for the nomi-
nation.
Was nominated for congress In 1872, de-
spite his protest, and elected. The state
having fallen into democratic hands he
was reluctantly compelled to accept the
nomination for )vernor In 1875 and was
a third time elected
Was nominated for the presidency In
1876 by the national republican conven-
ton which met at Cincinnati, June
14th. His democratic opponent In that
campaign was Samuel j. Tilden OF New
York, and that memorable campaign is
still fresh in every mind, while the settle
ment of the question of election by the
"E. ectoral Commission is disputed
point among politicians to this day. The
commission declared Mr.. Hayes duly
elected TO the presidency and he took his
seat March 4, 1877.
Leaving Washington at the expiration
| Of his term of Office eX-President Hayes
returned to his home at Fremont, Ohio.
Harvard, Yale and john Hopkins Univer-
Sity, as well as his own alma mater,
| thrust academical honors upon him and
| his standing as a man Of high literary at
| tainments was fully established. For the
past ten years of his life Mr.. Hayes has
been deeply interested in questions OF So
cial and moral reform and In the great
phlanthropic movements of the day.
HIS wife, the mother OF eight children,
five of whom survive, died at the old
Fremont home In June, 1899 Her husband
now Joins her In the unknown land, hav-
ing filled his allotted three score and
ten years, and having received at
the hands of his state, the nation, and
the educational institutions of the coun-
try the highest honorS it was In their
power to beStow. He was a thorough
Students clear headed lawyers thorough
American and true hearted man.