Category: Biographies
The Senatorship Declined--Army Banquet Speech--Third Time Nominated for Congress--Glendale Speech--Declines a Federal Office--Making a Home--Nomination for Governor--Platform--Serenade Speech--Democratic Convention and Platform--Marion Speech of Hayes--Woodford--Grosvenor--Sch...
The Senatorship Declined--Army Banquet Speech--Third Time Nominated for Congress--Glendale Speech--Declines a Federal Office--Making a Home--Nomination for Governor--Platform--S...
10. Chapter 10Early Suggestions--Letters on Subject--Garfield Letter--Action of State Convention--Cincinnati Convention--Course of his Friends-- First and Second Day's Events--Speech of Noyes...
11. Chapter 11George Hayes, of Scotland, came to America by the way of England, and settled at Windsor, in the Colony of Connecticut, in 1682. He married, in 1683, Abigail Dibble, who was bor...
12. Chapter 12The town of Delaware, the county seat of the county of Delaware, is located near the center of Ohio, twenty-five miles northwest of Columbus. It is a prosperous place of seven t...
13. Chapter 13The young lawyer, R. B. Hayes, full of hopefulness and ambition, commenced the practice of the law at Lower Sandusky, now Fremont, Sandusky county, Ohio. This growing town of No...
14. Chapter 14That a loyal citizen of the antecedents, ardent patriotism, and impulsive nature of Rutherford B. Hayes would enter the army in the war for the Union, was to be looked for as a...
15. Chapter 15Sheridan's battle of Winchester, or Opequan, was fought on the 19th of September, 1864. The battle had a bad beginning, but a glorious ending. There were five hours of staring d...
16. Chapter 16On the 6th of August, 1864, while General Hayes was absent from Ohio in the field, he was nominated by the Republican Convention of the Second Congressional District of Cincinna...
17. Chapter 17The questions at issue in the great political canvass of 1867, in Ohio, were closely allied to the one whether the National Government had a constitutional right to maintain its...
18. Chapter 18So acceptable was his two years' administration of the chief executive office of the State, that no competitor entered the lists against him or contended with him for the nomina...
19. Chapter 19_The Senatorship declined--Army Banquet Speech--Third Time nominated for Congress--Glendale Speech--Declines a Federal Office--Making a Home--Nomination for Governor--Platform--...
20. Chapter 20_Early Suggestions--Letters on Subject--Garfield Letter--Action of State Convention--Cincinnati Convention--Course of his Friends--First and Second Day's Events--Speech of Noyes...