The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1914-04-18

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tice OF the supreme court in the cour
Try, is the remarkable and rapid Al
cent Of the proyerbial ladder OF ram,
accomplished by Samuel w, Hayes o
Chickasha.
Hayes is an excellent example o
the self-made young men Of the ives
who have fought successful BATH,
against hardship and adYerssty Hi
attainments thus far in life furnish TIL
essence OF one OF the most fomanti,
stories Of commercial success Of
record.
In en humble home at Huntsville
Madison county. Ark. Samuel "
Hayes was born Of poor but homes
parents When he was but three g.
four years OF age, his parents moved
to Jack county, Texas. where they set
tied on homestead, thirty miles from,
railroad in what was then the wild
frontier Of the Lone Star state. Tho
trip from Arkansas was made over
land in wagons. Upon the Homestead
2 log cabin was buIlded. The tim.
bered lands we're cleared and home
established Here young Hayes labor
ed with his father on the farm, shar-
ing in all the hardships OF pioneer life
IL timbered country.
While working on the farm during
his fourteenth year Hayes met with
an accident which resulted in 4
ioroken arm Unable to continue his
work, the hey went to live with an
uncle until his recovery. During his
visit there was placed in his hands
the biography OF Henry w Grady. The
youth read it with interest and re-
celved the inspiration that made him
ySarn for a university education.
Disclosing mis- ambition to his uncle,
who was then county clerk OF the
county, he secured a promise from
him that ifyoung Hayes would return
home and work hard to prepare him
sell to enter the university, the means
would in some way be provided. With
the meagre training obtainable in the
little country school house, it was a
task But the boy was
determined, and in the two years that
followed he prepared himself with
such thoronghness in the ungraded
school near his fathers farm. where
one teacher taught all subjects from
primer to trigonometry, that on his
sixteenth birthday he entered the uni
yersity of Virginia.
This tuition was made possible by
the generosity OF his uncle, whose loan
was secured by young Hayes prom
issory note and an assignment Of an
insurance policy on the boys life.
Hayes attended the university for two
years, but on account of the expense
ana the Indebtedness incurred he
felt himself unable to remain until he
could complete his course and return
ad to Texas, where he taught school
lor three years.
In June. 1896. in his twenty-fifst
year young Hayes with a youths |
ambition to advance, yentured from |
he old Texas homestead and located |
n the then Indian Territory, at the
title town of Ryan Hcre he engag-
ID in teaching school and continued in
his profession for three years.
From his early youth it was his
to become a lawyer While /
school he had been devoting
lis spare moments to the study OF
aw for several years, and he was adj
nitted to the bar at Ryan, Indian Ter
itcry. He advanced rapidly as an at
orney, and three years later removed
0 Chickasha, where he continued his
lsactice for five years, his firm build
bg up one of the largest and most
practices in the southwest
IN part Of the territory. His prae-
ice was general but he never en-
aged himself as corporation law
er
When the statehood question was
aunched in 1906, Hayes was nominal
d without opposf'ion BY the Demo-
rats of his county and elected as del
gate to the constitutional conven-
lon at Guthrie. He was active from
ae start and the value Of his services
oon advanced him to membership On
'e important committees, among them
eing the committee on rules. Judic-
lry homesteads and exemptions He
as then made chairman OF the legal
dvisory committee and Of the COM
liliee On schedules. With A. NJ. El-