Smyrna times., 1910-11-02
DEATH RECORD OF THE WEEK
manIoVe Hayes, OoVer's Grand Old
Man, Aged 90 Years. Dies After
Lingering IIlness.-His Career.


Old Man, educator, enthusiastic
farmer, Republican leader and sneak
er, and railroad builder and surveyor
and secretary treasurer of the Della |
ware Railroad Company, whose last
annual meeting he attended at the
age of SO, died Monday afternoon
at l O'Clock. The end came after
patient but not uncertain battle
against the common enemy which
has lasted for several weeks, during
the last of which he was very feeble.
Until last spring, however, this re-
markable nonogenarian, who is re-
ported to have been the oldest white
man in Delaware, possessed a bril-
liant mind and engaged in pubic
movements and educational work. all
the time taking a keen interest in
the development of the profitable
Delaware Railroad pr p-rty. Vice
president of Delaware College was
another of the offices held at the
time of his death. He was also
president of the Dover library, elder
of Dover Presbyterian Church, sec
retary-treasurer of the Delaware
Railroad company and numerous
other Offices. He was probably the
oldest living graduate of Delaware
College. He served as a represent
ative, then as senator, years later,
and when he came in as chairman of
the public lands commission, none of
the men with whom he had served
as representative or senator were
living. He labored with an entirely
new generation. Mr.. Hayes was
Highly honored by the Republican
party. Many times he was honored
by election to its national conven-
tions and was frequently offered
nominations of governor or repre-
sentative in Congress. He was
truly one of whom the phrase "a
cultured American gentleman"
would always apply. Faultless in
dress and speech and with courtesy
that was unfailing Mr.. Hayes was
known by a friend or foe only to be
respected. A man of clean life, yet
not a busy reformer, he did more
good by example than he could have
done by agitation. The present free
library in Dover is largely due tc
his planning and generosity. The
: elaborate new Pennsylvania building
: offices and modern railroad station
for Dover, will be put dowl as g
> monument to Manlove Hayes o1
a Dover, with whose cooperation or
the Dover Board of Trade secured
it. Mr.. Hayes on February II, 1851,
n married Rebecca Carmault, daughter
of James and Sarah Parry Howell
+; Of Philadelphia. The children borr
. of this marriage are Mary, wife o.
d John P. Salisbury. Edith, wife o.
= D. Miffiin Wilson, of Dover, and An
=, ma Bell Hayes. Mrs. Hayes is still
r living. The funeral of Mr.. Haye!
). will be held at his late residence OIL
: Friday, November A. at 1.30 p. m.
e interment will be made at tn
: Friends Burying Ground near Litt'
> Creek.
James Mcdowell, Former SMYRNA
James Mcdowell, son of the lat
>. James and Lydia Mcdowell, of thi
town and brother of E. W. Nc
y Dowell, our well-known furnitur
. dealer, died Wednesday last, Octobe
&c, at Camden, N. j. He suffere
a stroke of paralysis from which h
never recovered. His remains wer
- brought to Smyrna Friday and II
terment was made in the family lC
= in Glenwood Cemetery. Deceased
: survived by four children: Mis-
Helen Mcdowell, of this town; Mis-
Virginia Mcdowell, of Philadelphia
and Messrs. Wilmer and Victor Nj
Dowell, of Camden N. j. Decease
? spent his youth and early manhoC
:" in SMYRNA but has been away for
years.
81 Wilbur Hoffecker Dies Near WiImingtc
! Wilbur Fisk Hoffecker was lurit
. from his lale home Clermont farm
= on the Lancaster turnpike, Monds
's ~ morning after brief service. lnte
=. ment was private. Mr.. Hoffeck'
~ died on Thursday after a brief II
e ness. He was farmer. He WI
" y. SO years old and brother of Franc
al H. Hoffecker and George R. Ho
a' fecker of Wilmington, James
~ ~ Hoffecker, of Philadelphia, al
ca Savin Hoffecker of New York. /
ne was related to the Hoffeckers
:. Smyrna.
&C. TOWNSEND CUNNING ACClDEN
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