Joseph Hays and Elizabeth A. Crawford

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Husband Joseph Hays ^{1 2}

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           Born: 9 Jan 1832 - Washington Co, PA 2
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         Father: Alexander Hays (1795-1846) 2 3 4
         Mother: Ann V. Stevenson (1802-1881) 2 5

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       Marriage: 1859 6

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Wife Elizabeth A. Crawford ⁶

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1 M Edgar V. Hays ⁶

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2 M Frank C. Hays ⁶

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3 F Anna M. Hays ⁶

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         Spouse: Rev. S. J. S. Moore (      -      ) 6

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General Notes: Husband - Joseph Hays

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He attended a private school at Cross Creek, Pennsylvania, and later attended Washington college, graduating in 1857. He read law in the office of Montgomery & Gibson, of Washington, and was admitted to the bar of Washington County in 1865, and to the Allegheny County bar the same year. He was in continuous practice in Pittsburgh from that date, and became one of the oldest practitioners in Allegheny County. He served five terms as a member of the select council for the thirty-sixth ward, Pittsburgh, and represented the fourth legislative district in the legislature during 1875-1876. Mr. Hays was always affiliated with the democratic party. He was a member of Franklin lodge, No. 221, F. and A. M., of Pittsburgh, and his religious views were Presbyterian.

1 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 1276.

2 —, Memoirs of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Vol. I (Madison, WI: Northwestern Historical Assosciation, 1904), Pg 123.

3 Boyd Crumrine, History of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 915.

4 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 1276, 1416.

5 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 1416.

6 —, Memoirs of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Vol. I (Madison, WI: Northwestern Historical Assosciation, 1904), Pg 124.