Samuel Hays

HAYS, ROBINS, CLARK, RODGERS

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Date: 4/7/2009 at 15:11:21

SAMUEL HAYS was born in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, November 28, 1844, and is the son of Fred and Mary (Robins) Hays, natives of the State of Pennsylvania. When Samuel was eighteen months old his parents removed to Rock Island County, Illinois. There he passed his early youth, being reared to the occupation of a farmer. He obtained his education in the district schools and the graded schools of Cordova. He was entering his second term in the latter place when he enlisted in the United States service in the Fifteenth Illinois Volunteer Infantry, Company D. After six months he was honorably discharged, and re turned to Rock Island County, and remained there until 1867, engaged in farming during the summer season and in teaching school in the winter. In the fall of 1867 Mr. Hays came to Iowa, and for several years he was occupied in teaching in the winter season, and working at the carpenter's trade and at the shoemaker's trade during the rest of the year. For three years after coming to the State he made his home in Henry County, after which he removed to Marshall County, remaining there four years. He was married September 6, 1872, to Miss Ellen L. Clark, daughter of G. C. and Phoebe A. (Rodgers) Clark, who was born in Marshalltown, Iowa, July 17, 1854. They are the parents of nine children Frew L., Maud A., Willie A., Gabriel C., Samuel E., Miles F., James A., Mary M. and Alice L., all at home. In 1875 Mr. Hays removed his family to Audubon County, and settled on a farm of eighty acres in Greeley Township, which was then wild prairie land. He has added eighty acres to his first purchase, and has made many valuable improvements, erecting a good frame residence, and barns for stock and grain. He affiliates with the Democratic party, but votes for the man that he judges best qualified to fill the position. He takes an active interest in the political affairs of the county, and has filled most of the township offices. He is a member of the K. of L.

1889 BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY OF
SHELBY AND AUDUBON COUNTIES, IOWA
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