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 HAYNES

HAYNES

Deacon Samuel Haynes, who was born in Eng- land, came to New England in the ship Angel Gabriel, and was wrecked at Pemaquid, Maine, Aug. 15, 1635. His father was editor of the East- ern Bepublican, one of the leading Democratic newspapers of New England, during the adminis- tration of Andrew Jackson; and his ma- ternal grandfather, the Hon. William D. Williamson, was the historian of Maine. He removed to Boston in early life, was fitted for college at the Boston Latin school, and was graduated from Harvard, A.B., 1851, A.M., 1859. He af- terward practised ■^i^i^^K/ Jl^Jl^'Ue'^- law in Boston until -^ ^ 1867. He was mar-

ried in Paris, France, Aug. 1, 1867, to Helen Weld, daughter of John Adams Blanchard of Boston, Mass. In 1867 he was called to the chair of Latin in the University of Vermont, being transferred to the professorship of Greek in the samo institution in 1870. He resigned liis chair in 1873 to give his entii-e attention to archaeolog- ical and historical investigation, making a spe- cialty of pre-historical studies. He spent the years 1873-78 in Europe stutlying the antiquities of various countries. He also took part in three international congresses of ai'ch^ology and an- thropology. In 1877-78 he studied in Egj'pt en- deavoring to find evidences of the paleolitliic age in that region, and in 1878 he presented the re- sults of his investigations at the International congress of antliropological sciences held in Paris, receiving in recognition of his labors a medal and a diploma. His account of these dis- coveries was published in the " Memoirs of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences " for 1881. After his return to Boston h'e was elected a trustee of the Boston public library. He was made corresponding secretary of the Massachu- setts historical society, a fellow of the Amer- ican academy of arts and sciences, a member of the American historical association, a fellow of the American association for the ailvancement of science, and a member of the Anthropological society. He is the author of numerous papers contributed to ' scientific and literary journals, and to the proceedings of various learned socie- ties; also the chapters upon the Prehistoric Arclm- oloyy nf Xorlh America and Early Explorations of yew Mexio in Justin Winsor's Narrative and Crit- ical ^listnry of America.

HAYNES, John, statesman, was born in Cop- ford, Essex, England, in 1594. He emigrated to America and reached Boston, Sept. 4, 1633, in company with the Rev. Thomas Hooker, Samuel Stone and John Cotton, and settled in Massa- chusetts Bay colony, where the next year he was made assistant councillor, and in May, 1635, gov- ernor of the colony. He removed to Connecti- cut in 1637, and was the first governor of that colony, serving every other year as governor till his death. In 1638 he was one of the five authors of the first constitution of Connecticut, after which all the subsequent constitutions of the state and the Federal constitution were framed. He died in Hartford, Conn., Mai'ch 1, 1654.

HAYNES, John Cummings, publisher, was born in Brighton, Mass., Sept. 9, 1829; son of John Dearborn and Eliza Walker (Stevens) Haynes, and a descendant of Samuel Haynes, who came from Shropshire. England, to America in 1635, and settled at Portsmouth, N.H., then known as Strawberrj' Bank, where he was deacon of the first Congregational church which he helped to found. John C. Haynes was graduated at the Boston English high school in 1845, and was received as a store-boy in the employ of Oliver Ditson. He was rapidly advanced and in 1850 became a participant in the profits of the busi- ness, and on Jan. 1, 1857, a partner, the name being Oliver Ditson & Co. The death of Mr. Dit- son the senior, in December, 1888, dissolved the firm, and the corporation of Oliver Dit.son & Co. was created by Charles H. Ditson. John C. Haynes and the executors of the estate of Oliver Ditson. Mr. Haynes was elected president of the corporation. He was one of the organizers of the Franklin library association of Boston; a life member of the Mercantile librarj- association, and of various religious and charitable organizations, and a director in several financial institiiticns of Boston. As a member of the common coimcil he was instrumental in securing the opening of the public library on Sunday. He was married. May 1, 1855, to Fanny, daughter of the Rev. Charles and Francis (Seaburv) Spear.

HAYNES, Landon Carter, senator, was born in Elizabethtown, Tenn., Dec. 2, 1816. He was graduated with honcn-s from Washington college. East Tennessee, in 1836; studied law in the office of Thomas A. R. Nelson, and was admitted to the bar in 1840. He was a Polk elector in the first congressional district in 1844; was elected a rep- resentative in the state legislature, 1847, and was made speaker of tiie house in 1849. He was an unsuccessful candidate for representative in the 36th congress in 1859. opposing Tliomas A. R. Nelson, his la\v preceptor; a Breckenridge and Lane elector for the state at large in 18(i0. and was elected to the Confederate States senate, Oct.