John Hays and Jane Van Ness "Jennie" Smead

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Husband John Hays ^{1 2}

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         Father: John Hays (1794-1854) 3 4 5
         Mother: Eleanor Blaine (1789-1839) 2 3 4

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       Marriage: 8 Aug 1865 4

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Wife Jane Van Ness "Jennie" Smead ^{1 2 6}

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         Father: Capt. Raphael C. Smead (      -1848) 7
         Mother: Sarah M. Radcliffe (      -Aft 1886) 7

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Children

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1 F Anna A. Hays ⁴

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2 F Elizabeth S. Hays ⁴

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3 M George M. Hays ⁴

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4 M Raphael S. Hays ⁴

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5 F Eleanor B. Hays ⁴

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General Notes: Husband - John Hays

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He graduated from the old Dickinson College in the class of 1857, and that year entered the law office of Hon. R. M. Henderson, and was admitted to the bar of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, in August, 1859. In 1862 he entered Company A, One Hundred and Thirtieth Volunteer Infantry; was promoted first lieutenant, then adjutant of the regiment, and then adjutant-general of a brigade. He was mustered out May 1, 1863. He was wounded in the right shoulder at Chancellorsville by a musket ball, and had seven other balls that cut his clothing and killed his horse under him. He was in the battles of Antietam and Fredericksburg. The Second Corps, of which his regiment was a part, lost 5,500 men at Antietam. The entire regiment was commanded by the gallant Col. H. I. Zinn, as the regiment was not organized at the time and had no field or staff officers. After his regiment was mustered out, Mr. Hays returned to Carlisle and formed a partnership with his preceptor, Hon. R. M. Henderson.
He was a Republican, and was a delegate to the National Convention in 1880.
He was one of the original trustees and mainly instrumental in the management of the building of the Metzgar Institute of Carlisle, of which his uncle, George Metzgar, was the founder. Mr. Hays was a member of the board of directors of the Carlisle Gas & Water Company; vice-president and chairman of the executive committee for the Carlisle Manufacturing Company, and president of the Carlisle Deposit Bank.
He and his wife were members of the Presbyterian Church at Carlisle. [HCC 1886, 378]

1 Wm. H. Egle, Historical Register: Notes and Queries, Historical and Genealogical (Harrisburg, PA: Lane S. Hart, Publisher, 1884), Pg 150.

2 —, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 644, 662.

3 Wm. H. Egle, Historical Register: Notes and Queries, Historical and Genealogical (Harrisburg, PA: Lane S. Hart, Publisher, 1884), Pg 148.

4 —, History of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warners, Beers & Co., 1886), Pg 378.

5 —, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 662.

6 —, History of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warners, Beers & Co., 1886), Pg 378, 396.

7 —, History of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warners, Beers & Co., 1886), Pg 378, 395.