majority of its members, the system of competitive examinations was successfully applied in some of the executive departments at Washington and in the great government offices at New York, thus proving its practicability and usefulness. The removal by President Hayes of some of the most powerful party managers from their offices, avowedly on the ground that the offices had been used as part of the political machinery, was an act of high courage, and during his administration there was far less meddling with party politics on the part of officers of the government than at any period since Andrew Jackson's time. The success of the Republican party in the election of 1880 was largely owing to the general satisfaction among the people with the Hayes administration.
On the expiration of his term, ex-President
Hayes retired to his home at Fremont, Ohio. He
was the recipient of various distinctions. The
degree of LL. D. was conferred upon him by Kenyon
college, Harvard university, Yale college, and
Johns Hopkins university. He was made senior
vice-commander of the military order of the Loyal
legion, commander of
the Ohio commandery
of the same order,
the first president
of the Society
of the Army of West
Virginia, and president
of the 23d regiment
Ohio volunteers
association. Much
of his time is devoted
to benevolent and
useful enterprises.
He is president of the
trustees of the John
F. Slater education-fund,
one of the trustees
of the Peabody
education-fund,
president of the National
prison-reform association, an active member of the
National conference of corrections and charities, a
trustee of the Western Reserve university at Cleveland,
Ohio, of the Wesleyan university of Delaware,
Ohio, of Mount Union college, at Alliance,
Ohio, and of several other charitable and educational
institutions. On the occasion of a meeting
of the National prison-reform association, held at
Atlanta, Ga., in November, 1886, he was received
with much popular enthusiasm, and greeted by an
ex-governor of Georgia as one to whom, more than
to any other, the people were indebted for the era
of peace and union which they now enjoyed, and
by the present governor, John B. Gordon, as the
man who had “made a true and noble effort to
complete the restoration of the Union by restoring
fraternal feeling between the estranged sections.”
See “Life, Public Services, and Select Speeches of
Rutherford B. Hayes,” 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, b. in Chillicothe, Ohio, 28 Aug.,
1831; d. in Fremont, Ohio, 25 June, 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 expiration of her husband's term of office,
presented her with various testimonials, including
an album filled with autograph expressions of
approval from many prominent persons.
HAYGOOD, Atticus Green, clergyman, b. in Watkinsville, Ga., 19 Nov., 1839. He was graduated at Emory college, Ga., in 1859, and licensed to preach in the Methodist Episcopal church in the same year. In 1870-'5 he edited the Sunday-school publications of the Methodist Episcopal church, south, and in 1876 he was elected president of Emory college, where he remained eight years. He was appointed general agent of the “John F. Slater fund” in 1883, for the education of colored youth in the southern states, and has since devoted himself to this work and to efforts for the progress of the negro race. In 1872 he was elected bishop in the Methodist Episcopal church, south, but declined. In 1878-'82 he edited the “Wesleyan Christian Advocate.” Emory college conferred on him the degree of D. D. in 1870, and the Southwestern university, Texas, that of LL. D. in 1884. Dr. Haygood is the author of “Go or Send, an Essay on Missions” (Nashville, Tenn., 1873); “Our Children” (New York, 1876); “Our Brother in Black” (1881); “Close the Saloons” (Macon, Ga., 1882); and “Speeches and Sermons” (Nashville, 1884); and has edited “Sermons by Bishop George Foster Peirce” (Nashville. Tenn., 1886).
HAYMAN, Samuel Brinkle, soldier, b. in Chester county, Pa., 5 June, 1820. He was graduated at the U. S. military academy in 1842, became 1st lieutenant of infantry in 1847, captain in 1855, major in 1863, and lieutenant-colonel in 1867. During the Mexican war he was in several important battles, participating in the assault and capture of the city of Mexico. He served throughout the civil war with the Army of the Potomac, and was brevetted lieutenant-colonel for gallantry at Chancellorsville. He was mustered out of the volunteer service in June, 1863, and afterward participated in the battles of Kelly's Ford, Mine Run, and the battle of the Wilderness, 6 May, 1864, where he was wounded and brevetted colonel. In March, 1865, he was brevetted brigadier-general of volunteers for gallantry at Fair Oaks. In 1865-6 he was acting assistant provost-marshal-general, and disbursing officer at Elmira, N. Y. He took command at Fort Dakota in 1866, and was retired in 1872.
HAYNE, Isaac, patriot, b. in South Carolina, 23 Sept., 1745; d. in Charleston, S. C., 4 Aug., 1781. He was a wealthy planter in the districts of Beaufort and Colleton, and the proprietor of extensive iron-works in York district, which were afterward destroyed by the British. At the beginning of the Revolution he took the field, was a captain of artillery, and at the same time state senator. In 1780, on the invasion of the state by the British, he served in a cavalry regiment during the final siege of Charleston, and, being included in the capitulation of that place, was paroled on condition that he would not serve against the British while they held possession. When in 1781 the fortunes of the British began to decline, he, with all the others who were paroled on the same terms, was required to join the royal army or be subjected to close confinement. Hayne would gladly have accepted imprisonment, but his wife and several of his children lay at the point of death from small-pox. He went to Charleston, and, being assured by the deputy British commandant, Patterson, that he would not be required to bear arms against his country, took the oath of allegiance. After the successes of Gen. Greene had left the British nothing but Charleston, Hayne was sum-
