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onfJ church, "Washington, Pa., 1870-81, and pastor of the Geaatral church, Denver, Col., 1881-85; of the Second church, Cincinnati. Ohio, 1885-88, and of the Second church, Kansas City, Mo., 1888-93, wlien he resigned on account of i !1 health, remov- ing to Cannonsburg, Pa., and thence to Washing- ton, Pa. He was chosen moierator of the general assembly in 1884. He received the de- gree of D.D. from Lafayette college in 1870, and £hat of LL.D. from Hanover college about 1887. He published Evei'y Day Beasoning (1879) ; Hie Honest Book (1887); May Women Speak (1889); Presbyterians (1892), and several sermons. He died in Washington, Pa, Sept. 6, 1897.

HAYS, Isaac, physician, was born in Phila- delphia, Pa., July 5, 1796; son of Samuel and Richa (Gratz) Hays. He was graduated at the University of Pennsylvania, A B., 1816, A.M., 1819, and M.D., 1830. He was a practising phy- sician in Philadelphia, and eye and ear surgeon at the Pennsylvania infirmar3% l8'22-27 ; at the Wills hospital, 1834-54; at the Philadelphia Orphan a.sylum, the Philadelphia dispensary, the South- ern dispensary and the Penn,sylvania institute for instructing blind. He was elected a mem- ber of the Academy of natural sciences 1818, and was its president, 1865-69 ; a member of the Amarican philosophical society 1880, and one of its cen.sors, 1860-79 ; was one of the founders of the Franklin institute, and its secretary for many years; and one of

the founders of the American medical association, 1847, its treasurer, 1848- 52, and author of its code of ethics, afterward adopted by every state and county medical so- ciety in the United States. He was FRAAiKLiAi lAisTiTUTE.. also a member of

the Philadelphia, State of Pennsylvania, Phil- adelphia county, New Y'ork state and Rhode Island medical societies. He was vice-pres- ident of the Alumni society, medical depart- ment. University of Pennsylvania ; president of the Ophthalmological society, Philadelphia; cor- responding member of the Gynecological society of Boston; associate fellow of the American acad- emy of arts and sciences, and honorary member of various other learned societies of Europe and the United States. He was married to Sarah, daughter of Isaac Minis of Philadelphia, Pa. He was editor of the Philadelphia Journal of Medical and Physical Sciences, afterward The American Journal of 3Iedical Science. 1820-69. He estab- lished the 3Iedical Xews, 1843. and the Jlonthhj

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Abstract of Medical Science, 1874. He edited Wil- son's ^mencajj Ornithology; Hoblyn's Dictionary of Terms Used in Medical and Collateral Sciences ; Laurence's Treatise on Diseases of the Eye; and Arnott's Elements of Physics. He died in Phila- delphia, Pa., April 13, 1879.

HAYS, Will Shakespeare, balladist, was born ' in Louisville, Ky. , July 19, 1837. He attended college at Hanover, Ind., and Georgetown, Ky. j At an early age he gave evidence of musical genius and learned to play upon various instru- ments. While at Hanover (Ind.) college in 1856 he wrote and published a ballad, " Little Ones at Home " and thereafter devoted much time to ballad writing. In 1857 while a clerk in the music store of D. P. Faulds, Louisville, Ky., he wrote a ballad which Mr. Faulds called " Way Down South in Dixie," and which later be- came the marching song of the Confederate sol- diers. Mr. Faulds soon afterward surrendered the plates from which the .song was printed to Col. William A. Pond of New Y^ork, who in 1858 published the Emmett " Dixie " and after the war the Hays words were never reprinted, the Emmett revision being the one that finally sur- vived. Mr. Hays was at one time private secre- tary to George D. Prentice and after 1858 was editorially connected with the Louisville Jortr- nal, the Democrat, the Courier Journal and the Times. He is the author of nearly 400 popular ballads for all of which he composed the music. His songs reached a large sale and their many titles include: Mollie Darling, Evangeline, Little Log Cabin in the Lane, Keep in de Middle of de Boad, Signal Bells at Sea, Boll Out, Heave Dat Cotton, Susan Jane, Nora O'Neal, Driven from Home, My Southern Sunny Home, Nobody's Darling, Shamus O'Brien, Save One Bright Crown for Me, and Moon is out Tonight, Love.

HAYS, William, soldier, was born in Rich- mond, Va., in 1819. He was graduated at the U.S. military academy in 1840, and was assigned to the artillery. On the outbreak of the war with Mexico he was promoted 1st lieutenant and served in the light artillery. He was wounded in the battle of Molino del Rey and for gallantry was brevetted captain and major. He was pro- moted captain in 1853, served in the Seminole war, 1853-54; on frontier dutj-, 1856-60, and in command of a brigade of flying artillery in the civil war, 1861-62. He was at the battles of Antietam and Fredericksburg, where he com- manded the right division of the artillery reserve, and in November, 1862, there being no vacancies for promotion in the artillery service, he was made brigadier-general of volunteers. At Chan- cellorsville, May 6, 1863, where he commanded the 2d brigade, 3d division, 2d army corps, he was wounded and taken prisoner. On his recov-