Hayward, Horace

Born: 1824-05-14 Rutland County, Vermont

Died: 1878-01-05 Olney, Illinois

Flourished: 1854-12-17 Olney, Illinois

Horace Hayward, attorney, was born in Shrewsbury, Vermont, and was educated in his native state at Troy Conference Academy and Castleton Seminary, then read law under Robert Pierpont in Rutland. He was one of an organized group of men from Vermont who traveled to San Francisco together in 1849, but after trying his hand at mining was back in Rutland as a student by the time of the 1850 census. In November 1850, he moved to Olney, Illinois and practiced law. Hayward served as Richland County sheriff in 1855 and was prominent in the local Masonic lodge. He married Ellen J. McCullough in 1852 and the pair had three children. Hayward was an elder of the Olney Presbyterian Church, but also had ties to Congregationalism. In politics, he was first a Whig and later a Republican.

History of the Grand Commandery of Knights Templar of the State of Illinois (Chicago: John Morris, 1885), 172-73; The Rutland California Company, Vermont Quarterly 14 (October 1946), 190-92; California, U.S., Pioneer and Immigrant Files, 1790-1850 (Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations, 2011); U.S. Census Office, Seventh Census of the United States (1850), Rutland, Rutland County, VT, 33; Illinois Statewide Marriage Index, Richland County, 1 January 1852, Illinois State Archives, Springfield, IL; Counties of Cumberland, Jasper and Richland, Illinois: Historical and Biographical (Chicago: F. A. Battey, 1884), 640, 666; U.S. Census Office, Eighth Census of the United States (1860), Olney, Richland County, IL, 32; Illinois, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1772-1999, 17 January 1878, Richland County (Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations, 2015); Gravestone, Haven Hill Cemetery, Olney, IL.