Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1893-02-03

and Miss Frances Hayes, the eX-PreSldentS
children, were with him at the time he
died. Scott Hayes, another son, had been
summoned from Cincinnati.
Sketch of His Career.
Rutherford Burchard Hayes was born in
Delaware, Ohio on October 4, 1922. 1t was
said in the campaign biographies of him
published before his election to the Pres
idency that his ancestors were wealthy
Scotch people. The founder Of the American
branch of his family was George Hayes,
blacksmith and carpenter, who left Scotland
in 1880 and settled in Windsor, Conn.
Rutherford B. Hayes was born three
months after the death of his father.
His uncle, Sardis Bircherd, superintendent
his education. He was sent to Kenyon
College, and was graduated in 1912. He
began the study of law in the office of
Thomas Sparrow. of Columbus, Ohio. He
afterward attended course Of law lectures
in Harvard College, and was adj
mitted to the Bar at Marietta, Ohio, in 1915.
fession at Fremont, Ohio, having entered
into partnership with Mr.. Ralph P. Buck
land of that town. In 1910 he removed to
Cincinnati, where he in time acquired a
fair practice. He became member of the
Cincinnati Literary CLUB. composed chiefly
Of men of mark, or of men who afterward
became famous
In 1856 he was nominated for Judge of
Common Pleas, but declined the nomination.
In 1855 the office of City Solicitor becoming
vacant by the death of Judge Hart he was
UNEXPECTEDLY elected by the City Council to
fill the vacancy, and in 1859 was reelected
by the people for a full term, running 500
votes ahead of his ticket. He held this Office
until the spring of 1861.
The attack on Fort Sumpter called Mr..
Hayes to arms. Judge Mathews and Mr..
Hayes raised a regiment which was called
the Twenty third Ohio Infantry. OF this
Mr.. Hayes became Major Colonel W. S.
Rosecrans was placed in command.
Colonel Hayes was promoted to brlgadier
general 'sfor gallant and meritorious SER
vice in the battles of Winchester, Fishers
Hill and Cedar Creek" to take rank from
October 10, 1854 and was brevetted major
general "for gallant and distinguished SER
vices during the campaigns of 1854 in West
Virginia, and particularly in the battles of
Fishers Hill and Cedar Creek"
When the Republicans Of the Second Con-
gress District Of Ohio were looking for
candidate for the election of 1864 they
turned to General Hayes. and asked him to
consent to become a candidate.
The Generals absence from.the.canvass did
not make any difference to the result. He was
elected by a majority of 1908. His first term
in Congress was uneventful. He never made
a speech The committees he served upon
were unimportant. In the Congressional
election of 1866 his majority was 1858. He
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stay Of two years in Washington, but the
State Republican Convention held at Col
umbus on June 10th, 1867, nominated him
as it's candidate for Governor.
He accepted the nomination, it is said,
with reluctance, but after accepting entered
upon the campaign with exceeding vigor
and was elected. His opponent was Allen
G. Thurman, whose personal influence was
large, and whose ability was equally great.
The campaign turned largely upon the anti
States rights position which he assumed.
He was nominated il 1869 against Senator
Pendleton, and defeated him. The war
issues and the question of honest money
entered largely into this canvass.
Soon after the close Of his second guber.
material term he was again nominated for
Congress in Cincinnati ana defeated by Cen
eral Banning. Ia June, 1875, he was once
more nominated for Governor in the face Of
the most positive declaration on his part that
he would not be candidate. The action Of
the Convention and the persuasion of friends
caused him to yield at the last moment
and accept He was subsequently cleo
ted after one Of the most notable
hard money campaigns that the country
has witnessed and which turned considera-
BILE attention toward Governor hayes as an
available National candidate. William AL
len and the greenback men had stumped the
State shouting for soft money but in Mr.
Hayes they found their match. His adroit
manner Of dealing with the financial ques-
ton snatched victory from the jaws of de-
feat He received a majority Of 5544 over
MIR. Allen.
The Republican State Convention of Ohio,
which met in March, 1876, recommended the
nomination Of Governor Hayes for the Pres
idencY and urged the National Republican
Convention to select him. The Convention
met in Cincinnati on June Il. Governor
Hayess name was presented for the first place
on the ticket by Ex-Governor Noyes, of Ohio.
Among the opposing candidates were James
G.. Blaine and Roscoe Conkling. Mr.. Hayes
was nominated on the seventh ballot, the
opposition 20 Blaine concentrating on him.
vocated civil service reform, resumption
of specie payments and good government in
the South.
The election which followed the nomina-
ton was the occasion OF grave crisis in the
history of the country. Two Sats of returus