HAY
HAY
Amerii-a, ami two of liissons served with distinc-
tiou in the American Revolution. John Hay
(born 1838) was graduated at Brown university.
A.B.. 1858, A.M.. 18C1; studied law in Spring-
field, 111., in the office of Hay c<l CuUoni and
was admitted to the bar in 1861. He had won
the friendship of Mr. Lincoln, who maile him
assistant to Joiin C. Nicolay, his private secre-
tary, in 18G1. He served in the army in 1804 as
vt)lunteer aide-de-camp to Gen. David Hunter,
and with Gen. Q. A. Gillmore in the department
of the South with the rank of major and assist-
ant adjutant-general, ISIU; and as adjutant and
aide-tie camp to Presiilent Lincoln, 1864-()r). In
March, 1805, he was brevetted lieutenant coIo
nel and colonel " for faithful and meritorious
services during the war." He was mustered out
of the army, April 22. 1807. He was secretary
of legation at Paris, France, 1865-67; and at
Madrid, Spain, 1869-70; churae iV affaires at
Vienna, Austria. 1867-69; editorial writer on the
New York Trihune, 1870-75; editor in-chief of the
Tribune, 1881, during the absence of Whitelaw
Reid in Europe; first assistant secretary of
state in the Hayes administration, 1879-81; presi-
dent of the luternationiil sanitary congress at
Washington, 1881; and United States amba.ssador
to Great Britain, 1897-98. Following Lowell,
Phelps and Bayard, who had in turn been severely
criticised in America because of their evident
popularity at the court of St. James, Hay by his
social amenities fully sustained the favor there
which his predecessors had received. In the
trA-ing business of international diplomacy in
which the honor and safety of the nation he rep-
resented were at stake, he did much through his
tact and experience, gained at the courts of
Paris, Madrid, Vienna and Washington, to
quicken and strengthen the good vinderstanding
already existing betsveen Great Britain and the
United States, especially in the exclianges of
opinion between London, Wasliington and the
capitals of the continent, pending the European
discussion of the expediency of intervention in the
war between the United States and Spain in 1898.
His appointment as secretary of state in the
cabinet of President McKinley was made Aug.
13, 1898, and on the resignation of Secretary
Day, Sept. 16. 1898, he accepted the office, and
lie was sworn in Sept. 30, 1898, his api)ointment
being confirmed by the U.S. senate. Dec. 7,
1898. Here he found full scope for his thorough
diplomatic training, and his success proved
him a worthy successor to Webster, Seward,
Fish and Olney. In his treatment of the ques-
tions arising out of the war with Spain, the
paternal care of Cuba, the government of Porto
Rico, the purcha.se of the Philippine Islands, the
subjugation of the natives and the governing of
the new pos.sessions, the international complica-
tions incident to the proposed Nicaragua canal,
and the war in South Africa between Great
Britain and the Boers, he met each question as
itaro.se, and while preserving the cherished tra-
ditions of the Republic, he paved the way for a
broader comprehension of the duties of America,
now first called upon to deal with the questions of
a larger nationality. He was elected a member
of the American historical association. He
was married in 1874 to Clara, daughter of .Vmasa
Stone of Cleveland, Ohio, and their son, Adelbert
Stone Hay, was appointed in December, 1899.
U.S. consul to Pretoria, South African Republic,
in place of Charles Macrum, recalled. Mr. Hay
received the degree of LL.D. from Western
Reserve college in 1894, and from Brown univer-
sity in 1897. He is the author of: Pike Countij
BaUails which include Jim Bludso and Little
Breeches (1S71); Castilian Daijs (1871); History of
the Administration of Abraham Lincoln, in collab-
oration with John C. Nicolay (10 vols., 1890);
Poems (1890^; Lincoln's Complete Works (edited, 3
vols., 1894); and a translation of Emilio Castelar's
Dnnocracy in Europe (1874-75); besides a- large
number of political speeches and pamphlets. He
also pul)lished a speech on the unveiling of the
bust of Sir Walter Scott in Westmin.ster Abbey
(1897), and a si)eecli on Omar Kliayyam.
HAY, Lawrence Gano, educator, was born in Charlestown. Ind., Oct 7, 1823; son of Andrew Paxton and Sarah Stiles Fanny Bainbridge (Gano) Hay; grandson of Isaac Eaton and Kesia (Bain- bridge) Gano; gi'eat-grandson of the Rev. John and Sarah (Stiles) Gano, and a descendant of Fi-ancis Ganeaux, a French Huguenot, who emi- grated from Guernsey and settknl at New Rochelle, N.Y. He was graduated at ^liami uni- versity in 1847 and from the Princeton theological seminary in 1850. He was ordained by the pres- bytery of New Brunswick, May 8, 1850, and went as missionary to India and was superintendent of the ^Mi.ssouri press at AUaliabad. India, 1850-58. He was also agent for the Board of Foreign Mis- sions, 1857-58. Upon his return to the United
