. Progressive men and women of Kosciusko County, Indiana : to which is appended a comprehensive compendium of national biography ... est re-spect of all who have the pleasure of theiracquaintance. ELIJAH HAYS. ne of the wealthiest men of n iday who have their home- in Warsaw, Iv sciusko county. Indiana, came here in very moder- circumstances, a- far a- tin- worlds ds are concerned, and those who came earliest were generally the \ rest, but by their -kill in their special callings and bytheir frugality and industry not only aidedto build up the town and county, but suc-ceeded in making for them
. Progressive men and women of Kosciusko County, Indiana : to which is appended a comprehensive compendium of national biography ... est re-spect of all who have the pleasure of theiracquaintance. ELIJAH HAYS. ne of the wealthiest men of n iday who have their home- in Warsaw, Iv sciusko county. Indiana, came here in very moder- circumstances, a- far a- tin- worlds ds are concerned, and those who came earliest were generally the \ rest, but by their -kill in their special callings and bytheir frugality and industry not only aidedto build up the town and county, but suc-ceeded in making for themselves compe-tences that enabled them before many Near-had passed to live in ease with little or nofurther care or labor. Of these fortunatemen Elijah lla\ . and he i- the only man now living in Warsaw who was inbusiness here in [843. Mr Hays arrivedhere June 2, of that year, which was histwenty-fourth birthday, and having here-oiiK relative- who had preceded him. hewas not altogether among strangers. Elijah Hay- wa- born at York. Penn-sylvania, June _. [819, and when two year-old was taken to Wayne count v. Ohio, by Ji . v,;1. Gi/^a/c? y^-cf^j COMPENDIUM OF BIOGRAPHY. 235 his uncle, Andrew Yocum, who lived at Mill-brook, six miles south of Wooster. RobertHays, the father of Elijah, died in Pennsyl-vania when the latter was of the age justmentioned. Mrs. Elizabeth (Yocum) Hays,mother of Elijah, was left with five chil-dren when Mr. Hays died, of which fivethere were three born of a former husband,a Mr. Nichols, Elijah was the elder of thetwo by the second marriage, and Joel, the\?lunger, was but an infant in arms at thedeath of his father. Two years after the ar-rival of Andrew Yocum and the child Elijahat Millbrook, John Yocum. maternal grand-father of Elijah, and his daughter, , mother of Elijah, also reached Ohioand settled at Waynesboro, Wayne six years old Elijah Hays was re-turned to his mother, and later went to livewith this half-sister and her husba
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