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 HAYDEN. HAYNES. 295 ried him through, and to his disappoint- ment he was elected. Mr. Harden had reached Boston in the hottest of the anti-slavery struggle, and as- sisted in the work of Garrison, Phillips and their coadjutors, running double risks on account of his color. His home on Phillips Street was the home of the fugitive slaves until they could be despatched to Canada. He was notably connected with the cases of William and Ellen Crafts, Anthony Burns, Simms and Shadrack. When Batchelder, an officer, was killed, while resisting the crowd in the attempt to take Burns out of the court-house, Mr. Hayden was arrested with others and tried for murder. A verdict of not guilty was returned. In 185 1 Mr. Hayden opened a clothing store on Cambridge Street. In 1855 and '56 his store was the second largest estab- lishment in Boston managed by colored men. His store was the place where Phil- lips, Garrison, Parker and their friends often congregated for conference. He did a good business, but in the panic of 1857 he went down with thousands of others. In 1858 Mr. Hayden was selected as a messenger in the state department, which position he has held to the date of his death, which occurred April 7, 1S89. Mr. Hayden was the first man to suggest to Governor Andrew to put colored troops in the field. The suggestion was acted upon. Governor Andrew went immediately to Washington and laid the suggestion before President Lincoln. The result is known. Mr. Hayden served one term in the House of Representatives in 1873. He was a prominent Mason, and author of "Caste among Masons," "War of Races" and "Ancient York Masons." The " Hay- den Commandery," Knights Templar, was named for him. The Crispus Attucks Monument erected on Boston Common was the crowning work of his life, lie was a member of Robert A. Bell Post 134, G. A. R. — the first colored man in the United States to receive the honor. He had but one child, a son, killed during the war in a naval engagement under Admiral Farragut, New Orleans. Mr. Hayden, in spite of race or color, did exceptionally possess the warm personal friendship and entire confidence of the best men in the Commonwealth with whom he was brought in contact. His char- acter was untarnished, and had he been possessed of early educational advan- tages, would have found his place well to the front in the ranks of political lead- ers. HAYNES, Emory James, son of Zadoc S. and Marion W. (Bayley) Haynes, was born in Cabot, Washington county, Vt., February 6, 1S47. In 1S63 he entered Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn., where he soon won a leading class position. He excelled in elo- cution, winning the president's prize. He was graduated with honors in 1867. During the third year in college he preached his first sermon in Royalton, Vt., his father being the pastor, and among his hearers. In his senior year, at the urgent request of the Main Street M. E. church, Norwich, Conn., he consented to supply the pulpit for the year. Here he was suc- cessful, and after graduating, and joining the Providence conference, he was regu- larly appointed pastor of the same church, and remained three years. It was during his ministry in this place that he married Jennie P., daughter of Zadoc C. and Mary (Phillips) Crowell. Obtaining leave of ab- sence from his church, he spent four months traveling in Europe with his wife. In 1870 he went to St. Paul's church, Fall River. His next appointment was to the Hanson Place M. E. church, Brooklyn, New York East conference. Here he was phenomenally successful, the society and congregation increasing so in numbers that in 1873 the corner-stone of a new and much larger church edifice was laid. It is now the largest Methodist church on this con- tinent. This church was finished and dedi- cated in January, 1874. During his min- istry here occurred the death of his wife, a lady much beloved by all who knew her. His next call was to the Seventh Avenue M. E. church. He left the Hanson Place church with the mutual expectation that he would return at the end of three years, the Episcopal limit. Before the close of the second year he was no longer a Metho- dist. His convictions had forced him to sever his connection with the M. E. church, and unite with the Baptist denomination. In 1877 he accepted the call from the Washington Avenue Baptist church, and remained its pastor until 1885, when he re- ceived an earnest call from the Union Tem- ple church, Tremont Temple, Boston, the pastorate of which he accepted, and where he yet remains, blessed in his labors and loved and esteemed by church and people. His present pastorate is one of the most laborious and influential in the Christian world, — the aggregate audiences gathered at all religious services in Tremont Tem- ple, each Sunday, numbering ten thousand people. It is a free " church of the stran-