The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . m(M^ OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. 191. HATES, Rutherford Birchard, nineteenthpresident of the United States, was born at Dela-ware, O., Oct, 4, 1823, third son of Rutherford andSophia (B
The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . m(M^ OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. 191. HATES, Rutherford Birchard, nineteenthpresident of the United States, was born at Dela-ware, O., Oct, 4, 1823, third son of Rutherford andSophia (Birchard) Hayes. His earliest paternal an-cestor in. this countiy was George Hayes, a Scotch-man, who, prior to 1680, settled in Windsor, Conn.;was married to Sarah Dibble, and in 1698 removedto the Salmon brook district, Simsbury, jiow in thetown of Gri-anby. His son, Daniel, was captured bythe Indians during ^ueen Annes war, and after liv-ing among savages in Canada for several years, wasransomed by the colony of Connecticut. , son of Daniel, removed to New Haven, andthence to Branford, in both places acquiring consid-erable property as a blacksmith and a maker ofscythes. His wife, Rebecca, daughter of JudgeJohn and Sarah (Trowbridge) Russell, was a de-scendant of Rev. John Russell, of Hadley, Mass.,who sheltered the regicides, and of Henry Ruther-ford, gentleman, one of the founders of New second son, Rutherford, a
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