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cry he was exchanged ami promoted major in the regular service. He was made i)rovost-marshal- general of the southern district of New York in 1863, and rejoined his regiment at Petersburg. Va., in February, 1865, where he commanded the 2d division of Humjihreys's corps and lie was as- signed to the artillery reserve, April fi. ISC"). He was brevetted colonel and brigadier general, U.S.A.. March 13, ISl!."). for gallant services in l>at- tle, and was mustered out of tiie volunteer .service in 1806. He served at various western posts, 1866-73, and as commandant at Fort Independ- ence, Boston harbor, 1-S73-75. He died in Boston, Mass.. Feb. T. IST.").

HAYS, William Jacob, painter, was born in New York city. .\ug. 8, ls:{0: a grandson of Jacob Hays, high constable of Ne.v York for forty-nine years, and familiarly known as ■'Old Hays."' William Jacob acquired the art of painting with- out a teacher and his first productions were fruit and flower pieces. He then visited the western plains and painted landscape and animals. He exhibited '" Dogs in a Field " at the Academy of Design in 18.)0, and " Head of a Bull-Dog"' in 1852. He was elected an associate National acad- emician in 1852. HLs works include: The Wonmled Jiufalo; The StmiippiJe; A Herd on the Move; Setter ami Game: and Xoah's Head- He died in New- York city. Marcli 13. 1S7.5.

HAYWARD, George, surgeon, was born in Boston, Mass., March 9, 1791; son of Dr. Lemuel Hayward, a surgeon in the Continental army. He was graduated from Harvard in 1809 and from tiie medical department of the Univei-sity of Penn.sylvania in 1812. He settled in his native city and became prominent in his profession in both the United States and Europe. He was profe.ssor of surgery and clinical surgery in the Harvard medical school, 1885-49, and a fellow of tiie university, 1852-63. He was also a fellow of the American academy of arts and sciences and president of the Ma.s.sachusetts medical society. He received the honorary degree of B.A. from Yale in 1809. He translated (ieneral Auatomy, by Bichat (1822j: and Additions to BichnVs Anatomy, by Beckland (1823); and is the author of Outlines of Physiolofpj (1834); and Simjiral Jlecords (1855). He died in Boston, ^Ia.ss., Oct. 7. 1863.

HAYWARD, James, engineer, was born in Conr-<ird. Mass.. June 12. 1786. He was gradu- ated from Harvard in 1819; wa.s a tutor there, 1820-26; and college professor of mathematics and natural pliilosophy, 1826-27. He then re- signed his profes.sorship to devote his time to engineering. He conducted the first survey of the B<).ston & Providence railroad, and subse- quently had charge of the construction of the Bfiston & Maine railroad. Afterward he became president of thf Boston 4 Miine railroad r-or])ora-

tion. With Loammi Baldwin and Lemuel Shaw, he was appointed to settle a disputed question between the Boston Iron company and the Boston and Roxbury Water-Power company. He is the author of Elements of Geometry Upon the Inductice Method I 1829), and various reports. He died in Boston. Ma.ss., July 27, 1866.

HAYWARD, Joseph Warren, physician, was born in Eastoii. Mass.. July 11. 1841; son of George Washington and Sylvia Smith (Pratt; Haywari'; grandson of Joseph and Lydia (Barrows) Hay- ward and a descendant of Thomas Hayward, who came from Aylesford, Kent, England, in 1635. He attended the ]iublic schools and the academy at North Middleboro, Mass., and was graduated at the state normal school at Bridgewater, Mass. He taught school for two years in North Bridge- water and Lunenburg, at the same time takin.g private instruction in the languages. He entered Harvard medical school in 1862, and in ilarch, 1863, enlisted as a medical cadet in the U.S. reg- ular army and served for one year in the Missis- sippi and Ohio valleys. He returned to Massachusetts in March, 1864, and entered the Medical school of Maine at Brunswick, Maine, where he took his M.D. degree. He retr.r;:ed to the army as assistant surgeon of U.S. volunteers and was ordered to Virginia, where he served with the artillery brigade of the 10th and 24th corps and on the staff of General Ord until the clo.se of the war, being present at the fall of Petersburg and at the surrender of Lee at Ap- pomattox. He was brevetted major after the suiTemler. He resigned his commi.ssit.n and returned to New York city in November, 1865. wiiere he passed the following winter with Dr. Alexander B. Mott, professor of clinical surgery at Bellevue medical college. He then removed to Taunton, Mass., and was associated with Dr. George BaiTows, 1866-73. He was lecturer on fractures and dislocations and gunshot wounds at Boston university school of medicine, 1878-94, when he was made associate professor of surgery at the same college. He was surgeon of the 3d regiment. Massachusetts volunteers, and medical director of the 1st brigade, Massachusetts volun- teers, 1874-76. He was jjension surgeon, 1877-92; a meml)er of the school committee of Taunton, 1876-98; a tnistee of Morton hospital association from its incorporation and one of the consulting and visiting staff of the liosi)ital. In 1897 he became a member of the surgical staff of the St. Botoljih hospital, Bo.ston, of which he was a principal founder and owner. He was elected a meml>er of the leading medical societies of his school ami ])rofession. serving as i)resident of several. He was married. June 9. 1866. to Lemira Harris, daughter of John R. and Lemira (Daily) Drake.