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556 was prominent in the Episcopal church, and for forty years and until his death, in 1827, was treasurer of State. The town and county of Hay wood perpetuate his name. Dr. Haywood lost both his father and mother by death, when about three years old, and was intrusted to the care of his eldest sister, Eliza, a woman of the rarest graces of mind and body, who devoted the best years of her life to his care. As a student of the lamented McPheeters and Lovejoy, he early manifested the remark able intellectual ability which characterized his life, and at the university of North Carolina was one of the four who led the famous class of 1847, the class of Pettigrew and Ransom, Poole and Haywood. From this institution he also received the degrees of A. M. and LL. D. The degree of doctor of medicine he received from the university of Pennsylvania, in 1849. In 1861, at the first call to arms, he volunteered in the Raleigh light infantry and was made surgeon of the State troops, and soon after ward examining surgeon and medical director. In 1862, being commissioned surgeon, C. S. A., he was on duty at Seabrook hospital during the campaign before Richmond. Soon after this he was put in charge of the general hospitals at Raleigh, of which the Pettigrew hospital was the most noted. Here his consummate skill as a surgeon, his accuracy and untiring industry, soon placed him in the very front rank of his profession. After the surrender of the Confederate armies his services were freely given without hope of compensation, and his own slender means were devoted to the care of the sick and wounded until the last soldier left the hospital in July, 1865. During the war his successes in surgery were among the greatest recorded in the professional annals of the State. He rendered valuable services to the commonwealth, without compensation, in the departments of public philanthropy, and greatly ameliorated the condition of the insane during his directorship of the State hospital, from 1866 to 1889. Subsequently he was chairman of the board of public charities. He also served as physician to the Peace institute and the asylum for the deaf, dumb and blind at Raleigh. His eminence as a physician was recognized by the professional societies of other States and countries. He was honored with the presidency of the Raleigh academy of medicine, of which he was a founder, and in 1868 was president of the State