William Wallace Hays and Mary Straughan Day

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Husband William Wallace Hays ^{1 2}

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           Born: 23 Oct 1836 - Harrisburg, Dauphin Co, PA 1 2
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           Died: 31 Mar 1870 - Harrisburg, Dauphin Co, PA 1 2
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         Father: William Patton Hays (1804-1844) 3 4
         Mother: Rosanna Keller (1812-1848) 4 5

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       Marriage: 5 Mar 1861 1 6

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Wife Mary Straughan Day ^{1 6}

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           Born: 13 Sep 1837 6
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         Father: Dr. Stephen F. Day (      -      ) 6
         Mother: Eliza Floyd Straughan (      -      ) 6

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Children

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1 M William Hays ^{1 6}

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           Born: 10 Sep 1862 6
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           Died: in infancy
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         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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2 F Jessie Wallace Hays ^{1 6}

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           Born: 8 Aug 1864 6
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           Died: 11 Jul 1866 6
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         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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3 F Mary Winifred Hays ^{1 6}

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           Born: 20 Sep 1865 6
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         Spouse: Rev. John McCoy (1861-      ) 6

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4 F Martha Wallace Hays ^{1 6}

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           Born: 5 Aug 1869 6
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General Notes: Husband - William Wallace Hays

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He received his preparatory education in the public schools and Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Academy; entered the sophomore class of Jefferson College, Canonsburg, in 1853, graduating in 1856. He then went to Texas, where he remained two years, teaching in Victoria and Goliad. After returning north, he began the study of law with Robert A. Lamberton, Esq., and was admitted to the Dauphin county bar December 6, 1859. He began the practice of his profession at Harrisburg, continuing until his appointment by Governor Curtin, in 1861, as chief clerk in the office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth. On May 1, 1866, he was appointed Deputy Secretary of the Commonwealth, discharging the duties of that office until the close of Governor Curtin's administration. He then resumed his profession of the law, and in connection with it served as clerk to the Board of Claims from January to June 1, 1868. In October following, having been nominated by the Republicans of the city of Harrisburg, he was elected mayor thereof, the duties of which office he entered upon January 11, 1869. His health, however, soon began to fail him, and he died while in office, in his thirty-fourth year. "Mr. Hays was a truly Christian gentleman, he thought more of right than he did of life. His nature was of that intensity which inspires men to die for the truth, while his convictions on all subjects relating to the ordinary and extraordinary affairs of life, here and hereafter, were governed by the strongest principles of religion and justice."

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General Notes: Wife - Mary Straughan Day

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Wooster, Wayne Co, OH

1 William Henry Egle, History of the County of Dauphin in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Everts & Peck, 1883), Pg 503.

2 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 337.

3 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 336.

4 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 502.

5 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 336, 347.

6 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 338.