[p. 924] a general farmer and representative citizen of North Beaver Township, resides upon his well improved farm of fifty acres, which is situated about a half mile west of Bessemer. He was born on this farm in Lawrence County, Pennsylvania, March 21, 1869, and is a son of John W. and Jane (Huston) Hayes.
The great-grandfather, David Hayes, was the original purchaser of the land in North Beaver Township, on which successive generations of the family have since been reared. In 1837, the second David Hayes, grandfather of David Clark Hayes, of Beaver County, Pennsylvania, where he was engaged in the practice of law, purchased the tract of 200 acres which his father had secured in North Beaver Township, Lawrence County. In 1840 he married Margaret Crawford and they had one child, John W. The latter was born in 1843 and was reared and educated in North Beaver Township, where he still resides with his wife and family, being one of the prominent agriculturists of this section. He married Jane Huston and they had four children: Charles, David Clark, Mrs. Elsie Livingstone and Samuel Bert.
David Clark Hayes resides on the farm which has always been his home, growing to manhood amid familiar surroundings and attending the same school in which his father had obtained his education. He married Ostie Myers, who was born and reared in Springfield Township, Mahoning County, Ohio. Mr. Hayes has made all the improvements on his part of the old farm, erecting his large frame house in 1889 and still further adding to its comfort and appearance by building an addition, in 1905. Mr. Hayes is one of the solid, reliable men of his township. In politics he is a Republican but takes no very active part in public matters, but he is always alive to the best interests of his neighborhood and gives hearty assistance to all movements which will add to the general welfare. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
20th Century History of New Castle and Lawrence County Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens Hon. Aaron L. Hazen Richmond-Arnold Publishing Company, Chicago, Ill., 1908
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