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 296 HAYNES. HAYNES. gers." His sermons have now been pub- lished weekly for several years. His style is brilliant, his sermons full of religious fervor, and his presence com- manding. He is the author of several works of fiction : " Dollars and Duty," "A Wedding in War Time," and many short stories. He received the degree of doctor of divinity from Colby University in 1SS8. On the 29th of April, 1874, at New York, Mr. Haynes married for his second wife, Grace, daughter of William and Mary E. (Rousseau) Forby. They have five chil- dren: Blanche, Alice, Mary, Francis S., and Helen Haynes. HAYNES, JOHN CUMMINGS, son of John Dearborn and Eliza Walker (Stevens) Haynes, was born in Brighton, Suffolk county, September 9, 1829. He was educated in the public schools of Boston, finishing with the English high school, under masters Bacon and Robin- son. He left school at the age of fifteen, as his parents needed his active help. In July, 1845, he went as a boy into the employ of the late Oliver Ditson, Boston, the celebrated music publisher. He re- mained with Mr. Ditson until his majority, when he became interested in the business, receiving a percentage of the sales. Jan- uary 1, 1857, he became a partner, and the style of the firm was changed to Oliver Ditson & Co. The death of Oliver Ditson, in December, 1888, dissolved the firm in which Mr. Haynes had been a partner for thirty-two years. The surviving partners of the firm (Mr. Haynes and Mr. Charles H. Ditson, son of Oliver Ditson) and the executors of the estate of Oliver Ditson at once organized a corporation, under the laws of Massachusetts, under the title of the " Oliver Ditson Company," admitting as stockholders several of the best of the young men who had grown up with the business, Mr. Haynes becoming the presi- dent and Charles H. Ditson treasurer of the new corporation, with headquarters in the buildings 449 and 451 Washington Street. The branch houses are as follows: John C. Haynes & Co., Boston, Charles H. Ditson & Co., New York, and J. E. Ditson & Co., Philadelphia. The growth of the publishing house of Oliver Ditson & Co. has been identical with, and a powerful factor of, the growth of musical taste and culture in the United States. The influence of this house as a civilizing and refining agent, as our country has been developed, can scarcely be esti- mated. Mr. Haynes has also been interested in large and successful real estate ventures that have materially added to the assessed valuation of the city of Boston, where he has resided for over fifty years. When a young man he was instrumental in organ- izing the Franklin Library Association, and his many years' connection with it was of great advantage to him in his early training and culture. He is a life member of the Mercantile Library Association, and of the Young Men's Christian Union, also of the Women's Industrial Union, and of the Aged Couples' Home Society ; is one of the trustees of Franklin Savings Bank ; director in the Massachusetts Title Insur- ance Company, and Prudential Fire Insur- ance Company ; treasurer of the Free Re- ligious Association ; member of the Mas- sachusetts Club and Home Market Club, also of the Boston Merchants' Associa- tion. He joined the Free Soil party when a young man, went with it into the Repub- lican party, with which he is still identified, and was a member of the Boston common council four years, from 1S62 to 1865 in- clusive. In early life, after having been for many years a scholar in one of Boston's Baptist Sunday-schools, he became interested in the preaching of Theodore Parker in 1848, and ever since has been connected with the Twenty-eighth Congregational Society, which was organized to allow Mr. Parker to be heard in Boston, serving for many years as chairman of its standing commit- tee. He was active in the construction of Parker Memorial Building, and in its re- cent transfer to the Benevolent Fraternity of Churches, Boston, the object of this transfer being to perpetuate the memory of Theodore Parker in practical, charita- ble, educational and religious work. Mr. Haynes was one of the organizers of the Parker Fraternity of Boston, for many years a powerful social and religious society. The " Parker Fraternity Course of Lectures," inaugurated and sustained for nearly twenty years, were remarkable for their influence in moulding and direct- ing public opinion — especially during the war of the rebellion and the years of re- construction immediately following. In the first course Mr. Parker delivered his celebrated lectures on Washington, Frank- lin, Adams and Jefferson. Mr. Haynes was married, in Boston, by Theodore Parker, May 1, 1855, to Fanny, daughter of Rev. Charles and Fiances (Seabury) Spear. Of this union were