John L. Hayes

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John Lord Hayes (born April 13, 1812 in South Berwick , Maine , † April 18, 1887 in Cambridge , Massachusetts ) was an American lawyer, businessman and economic functionary (National Association of Wool Manufacturers) .

Life

John L. Hayes was the eldest son of Susannah Lord and Francis Brown Hayes, a judge and manager of various railway companies. He was a student at the Berwick Academy in South Berwick and studied first at Dartmouth College (graduation in 1831), then law with his father and at Harvard University (admitted to the bar in 1835). Hayes worked as a lawyer in Portsmouth ( New Hampshire ) and then became clerk (clerk) at the United States District Court . He later went to Washington, DC , to advise the Canadian government on trade negotiations while also playing a leading role in the short-lived Free Soil Party as a staunch opponent of slavery . Hayes took part as a rider in the parade for the inauguration of Abraham Lincoln (1861) and was appointed chief clerk of the United States Patent Office (1861–1864) and the first President of the National Tariff Commission . From 1864 he was managing director of the National Association of Wool Manufacturers .

In the 1840s Hayes was the manager of the Katahdin Iron Works Company (see Derby – Katahdin Iron Works ) and in the 1850s he was the manager of the Mexican, Rio Grande, and Pacific Railway Company , where he helped organize the construction of one of the first rail lines in Mexico .

In 1845 Hayes became a member of the Boston Society of Natural History , in 1866 (or 1878) he received an honorary doctorate (LL. D.) from Dartmouth College . In 1868, Hayes was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . He wrote more than 60 writings, mainly of a commercial nature (in particular on protective tariffs , tariff ) but also on scientific topics or works on the production and processing of wool . In 1887 he also translated a volume of hymns from Classical Latin and Middle Latin into English.

Hayes was married to Caroline Sarah Ladd since 1839; there were five children from the marriage, including Alexander Ladd Hayes.

Fonts (selection)

  • Memorial of the iron manufacturers of New England, asking for a modification of the tariff of 1846 (1850)
  • Vindication of the rights and titles, political and territorial, of Alexander, Earl of Stirling & Dovan, and Lord Proprietor of Canada and Nova Scotia (1853)
  • Protection, a boon to consumers: an address delivered before the National Association of Knit Goods Manufacturers, at the second annual meeting in New-York City, May 1, 1867
  • The fleece and the loom; an address before the National Association of Wool Manufacturers, at the first annual meeting in Philadelphia, Sept. 6, 1865
  • American textile machinery: its early history, characteristics, contributions to the industry of the world, relations to other industries, and claims for national recognition (1879)
  • An argument for a protective tariff: the farmer's question: being a reply to the Cobden Club tract entitled "The western farmer of America" (1880)
  • The Angora goat: its origin, culture, and products; containing the most recent observations of eminent breeders (1882)
  • Seaman's refutation of free-trade maxims: with an introductory notice by Ezra C. Seaman (1883)
  • A reminiscence of the Free-soil movement in New Hampshire, 1845 (1885)
  • The food and crude materials provisions of the tariff of 1883 justified (1886)
  • Corolla Hymnorum Sacrorum (1887)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b J. Wentworth: The Wentworth Genealogy . Рипол Классик, 1878, ISBN 978-5-87393-124-8 , p. 115 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  2. ↑ John Lord Hayes. In: famousamericans.net. Retrieved July 26, 2017 .
  3. ^ A b Memorial biographies of the New England Historic Genealogical Society . archive.org
  4. ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter H. (PDF; 1.2 MB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Retrieved July 26, 2017 (English).
personal data
SURNAME Hayes, John L.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hayes, John Lord
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American lawyer, businessman, and business official
DATE OF BIRTH April 13, 1812
PLACE OF BIRTH South Berwick , Maine
DATE OF DEATH April 18, 1887
Place of death Cambridge, Massachusetts