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 158 LIVES OF THE PRESIDENTS of genius, but of a strong and clear intellect, quick perceptions, and far more than ordinary acquire ments, animated with the most conscientious con ceptions of duty and the highest patriotic motives. The uprightness of his character and the exquisite purity of his life, public as well as domestic, exer cised a conspicuously wholesome influence not only upon the personnel of the governmental machinery, but also upon the social atmosphere of the national capital while he occupied the White House. See &quot;Life, Public Services, and Select Speeches of Rutherford B. Hayes,&quot; by James Quay Howard (Cincinnati, 1876). Campaign lives were also written by William D. Howells (New York, 1876) and Russell H. Conwell (Boston, 1876). His wife, LUCY WARE WEBB, born in Chilli- cothe, Ohio, August 28, 1831; died in Fremont, Ohio, June 25, 1889. She was the daughter of a physician, and married in 1852. Of eight children, four sons and one daughter are living. Mrs. Hayes was noted for her devotion to the wounded soldiers during the war. She refused to permit wine to be served on the White House table, and for this innovation incurred much censure in some political circles, but received high praise from the advocates of total abstinence, who, on the expira tion of her husband s term of office, presented her with various testimonials, including an album filled with autographic expressions of approval from