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were entrust6d ith duties far family. (Four,childreo were born ,. A Seaforth a' branch of the t reeat, ' Charles,:o£tondoii, QW,,-, He#or,' QpJii#0l00, l� t1� �� M4� iOi( ,, Pj.
beyond the haldi g of occasional in Ireland, the fifth in. New York ' War Veterans' Association; of Wilndsor,' ' dote, of Detroit; pe I ., ' '4l �s t pit II ',"Ah ay'. h "
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he Robert Hays, born near' g Charles A. 13.umstead of custpnip,y .#,pis,' jIV
Londonderry, Northern Ireland, Canada in 1830, bought a• farm He was a member of the pwen Sound: Mrs.. ,
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in . 1794, attended theµ parish nbar Ingersoll a�ft1 also operated a Masonic Order, being secretary passed away in 1469,' .One sorr, saes]] "to }tayg redghled tie '. Qt i`
school ' at Cornwell,' where he tannery. After four years in • of Malloch Chapter, R.A.M., acid Stanley, was killed in Texas, t!i}lest64O'.'blli Still in ' 'x - es¢,r'; ' 1
received a fair education, but was Oxford, he moved to Waterloo was active as a bowler and curler, March 30, 1918, While training , A birthday pa"ty that .+r~.Vegiifg, f
so determined to improve his couhty and founded Haysville, of also a' member. . of Seaforth Golf with the Royal Flying Corps, howeyer,, was attended t� . ' I , •by
qualifications that at the age of 29 "The municipal powers of a �' and Country Club. He was°long In the, .130 -year cold Georgian immediate rely#i s,'x,, ., . ;t
he attended for six months the magistrate's -court were enlarged The field stone house built by Robert Hays fin 18'4'41 on Lot 28, Con, 3, McKillop, an officer of the Huron Regiment house at 33 Montreal Street, R, C. Hays.h�d an exteoAvp r ?'
Grammar 'School in Northern from time to time, ' according to Was the home of his family until 1874 and then of his"son Thomas for some years. it • (militia) and. held the Goderich, which has long been a library in this hops•, 0,40 yottitg • "'.
Donegal. At the time; he was John Mitchell's book, The appointment of paymaster.. Early lawyers' office, the late Cockburn Glenn Hays, wb o ,saw hjim seated ' ,
married to Eleanor Torrance, arta Settlement of York County..
disintegrated about 40 year3 ago, and only corner sections Of the WaIIS now Stand. A in War Phe volunteered fdr active �, F y
y Ha s Qctµ ied a chamber to the, there, Dire da ,,peruising .a book,'
- they had three children. "Their - worships were given close view is obtained only. by pene'tra'tion of, barbed 'wire and burdocks. ,a 'service, and ' wenf> overseas as right of the entrance. Upon'one formed: an impression' that be,
Five of Robert Hays' authority to' levy taxes, to direct -senior major of the 161st' wall hung a picture some of his would like to study law;
descendants became lawyers in the road work 'which residents.-. ;- . Many Roberts, In 1845, ,.Robert ' Hays sold a with his neighbors for voting Battalion, C.E.F. (absorbed in the 'clients may remember. It -was a Mr. Hays is remembered' as a i
the course of three generations. , were obliged . to supply, to • At his death in 1874, Robert quarter -acre for a ebool sitd, for a against his son' that he "never 4th Reserve Battalion at framed reproduction of; a painting tall ,man, erect' in his walk. Hp , G:,
He lived to see his 'fo,�i rth son, regulate the conduct of taverns, was survived by his wife and nominal 20 shillings. That bit of again acted with the Reform Bramshott. He reired with rank. by Louis'ivl'beller, N.A., enftled_ .wore `a rtjOu taCh;ea, and
William Torrance, prat fsing law• ferries and markets and to build $even of their 11 children. H.is land is now part of the eight -acre Party.. of Lieut. Colonel.
and also serving East' 'Huron as and ,maintain bridges','--, third son, born May 31„ 1832, in Maitland Bank Cemetery, deeded Thomas Gibson's portrait may Col. Has did, a real deal of The Deed to the Farm. The x 'other manly awing collar.: `As with
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member in the Legislature: Also courthouses and fails.'' Oxford,.had been named Robert. and making other repairs, but at be found on Page 53 of the Belden the groundwork in establishing man -and his aged wife in ,:took an active'part in community
before Robert's death, a 'Not- all of -this Aould apply in he married Annie Heard. In the last it began to disintegrate. Atlas, his features. somewhat Scott Memorial Hospital,. which confe'renee with d lawyer, affairs :and was interested in �the� ,' I`
grandson, Robert Cockburn Canada Company territory, but in next generation, W.T. Hays' perhaps about..,1930, and only masked by a generous beard. later became Seaforth apparently of about the same manufacturing industries of
• Hays, was well estalilished in the Huron it was the magistrates who lawyer son was named Robert sections of the' walls remain The office of William T. Hays, Community Hospital. mature age, in his office. The old Goderich, including the Good
.'profession of, law, in ,Goderich, .petitioned. the . r Legislative Stat In y. He married Annie Shane standing. A barbed wire fence "attorney at law, solicitor in In 1 2 Mr. Hays formed the couple are selling, perhaps to a ]toads Machinery Company ,and
Other members of this group: Assembly for a separate of Blyth. ,The eldest son.of James and a luxuriant growth of Chancery and notary public,' law• fir of Hays and Meir and stranger, the farm on which they 'Goderich Knitting .Co. He was a
Robert Cockburn Hays, Q,C„ of administrative .area, and when and Margaret (Alexander), Hays ' burdocks discourage close overC,E. Archibald's store in the gradually retired .from practice. had spent. their working lives. member of the. Collegiate board
Goderich, a Life Bencher of the this was granted through a bill was named Robert Cockburn. He examination. - Crabb Block (at Kingston St. and- he travelled extensively and spent The artist' wlto produced the fp'r several year s. He practised
Law Society of Upper Canada; - prepared by Dr.' Dunlop, they - married Hattie M. Price, of by Thomas in 1876, He also gave The Square) Goderich. The town the winters abroad, alone or original painting its location not law its Goderich for -55 years, and
Robert Stanley Inlays, a §Arccessful proceeded to meet an important Goderich, and their eldest son the site for a Methodist church in was well supplied with lawyers-- accompanied by members of, his ' now known) was born in the was recognized :as dean of the
Seaforth lawyer, an'd H. Glenn condition, namely, construction of was also named Robert Cockburn." that year, . at least 15 besides Mr. Hays. , . family. In politics he was a United States and died there in Huron Sar. He was a member'
Hays, also in practise first at a jail and courthouse. Not being His wife was Ethel Gibbons I The farm was sold 'in 1936 by .They included Ira Lewis (later . Liberal, and was widely known 1930. 'He way a genre painter (of of St: George's Church -and in"
Seaforth, who became •Crown able to collect4in taxes anything Nairn, and their son was named J.M:Govenlock, executor of T.E. Crown Attorney)., John B. homely subjects in everyday politics a Conservative. At'his
Attorney of Huron, , then. like the sum needed, they Robert Charles. No -doubt there Hays' estate: to John R Ross and Gordon, D. Shade Gooding, B.L. surroundings.) In 1870 he went to death in 1935, the Huron
magistrate and Family Court borr6W.ed from the Canada are many other, Roberts in later • James Scott Davidson. it belongs Doyle (later Judge), D.C.
'Munich to study 'under great Expositor noted ''that he ivas
Judge, and now Provincial Judge. Company. • generations. • . •n`�i('w to Joseph van I?orreri. Haldane, Toms and Moor (Toms ' artists. . "highly esteemed for his integrity
The Third son of the pioneer Regrettably little is on record was Judge, (1882-1895), and In 1884 he -won the First and good judgment.'' Besides his � ,,r
Robert, William Torrance• was regarding the customs of justices . William Fraser Hallgarten Prize from the son, Robert Cockburn, he was
born Sept. 6, 1837, at Haysville. of the peace in the early year's of (Two in the House , National Academy of Design in survived by' five daughters. '
r k He,,practised law in Goderich, his settlement. Robert Hays house William Torrance Hays married New York. -,He became a member ' Claire, wife ' of .Frank ,
"° �J "¢.� '~ firm.'listed in 1867 as Hays• and would be his 'office, and' for a Mary Matilda, one of four of the Academy in 1895, hence C.S.Evans, died, in 'x1958. The,11
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'+ �., ¢ :tIS , • , it,r, ., applicant for the position of• hotel at . Harpurhey before member: of the Legislature and The Deed to 'the farm 'picture Montreal; Mrs. Eleanor•'•Millsw-�
�' , j' ' �. 4 ,�` - •. -, county clerk, but in the provincial Seaforth was incorporated as 'a later sheriff. Gibbons, a native of appears to depict three persons Elora; Miss Catherine Hays and
*�'', election of "that year became village. A century after Robert's Glasgow., farmed in Goderich who had known each other for Mrs. .Adelaide Lucas, of
member for North ' Huron, time, a great-grandson was to ,township as a young man, then many years, the old couple, Goderich.
1, defeating his. Liberal opponent: hold court. as magistrate and moved into town, became reeve of coming to the lawyer as a friend Robert Cockburn Hays., Junior,
11 t ,, Thomas Gibson, by 84 votes. At judge • from time to time in Goderich and warden of Huron. and trusted adviser. The known was 40 when .his father died after'
'Iix• ;t the 1871. election he lost to the Seaforth Town Ha11, only ttte He was member for South Huron g'. age of the reproduction makes, it a long illness, 'and was well"
11 same Thomas Gibson by 474. It 'is width of, a concession ,from the in the first. Assembly after reasonably certain that it adorned established in practice here.
recorded that W.T. •Hays was ` Hays farm. Confederation,. at the same time gig. Robert Cockburn Hays' office When he died on March 5, 1967
-, appointed Registrar of Deeds The Bel n' Atlas, 1879"has a as W'.T. Hays represented 3Vorth
a,•, A �� when, his son, R.G.Nays,, Jr., he had practised ;laws l�grp� for 45
fd..1,''Nrh'th 5H'tt'roti:: fr fitly sketch of RoBect' HaIXs, McKittop 'Huron. Gibbons was a tiiberal, so became a partner in 1921. They years an taken part from ;his
a there.was a sub-offtee,to the main magisirate,.r but in'' fact he he and his son-in-law sat on liked it well enough to keep it for youth in many activities of the
one in Goderich, an arrangement resigned on account 'of a' long opposite sides of the House, two generations: In some degree community. He had won to an
made in Perth and perhaps a few period of ill -health, '.In the 1890's, W.T. Hays lived it reflects the character of their exceptional degree the regard of
other countries. recommending ,appointment of at 53 St, Patrick Street, now the own law practice. Neither father his fellow -citizens, and tributes'
which' in -1857 he w.as first Younger men.' When Nicholas residence and office of Dr. W.N. nor son, so far as can be learned paid • at his passing expressed
This picture appeared in memoriam Of Robert postmaster. - ' Mellady;' Jr., was tried and. Patters. A daughter, Jennie now, were much in court, at least unreserved praise of his life and
Ma death. Pictured With film• IS "h IS wife Eleanor Coming' to Huron in 1$44, convicted of launder of his ,'Eleanor, died ,there. Other- _ in criminal cases.- They enjoyed a works:
Robert purchased 200 acres in father in -1869, agistrate Hays � children were R.S. Hays, �I"i, large practice as solicitors. Born in Goderich on July 2,
Torrance., Concession 3 of McKillop --Lot Lot 28 testified that fa ,and son did Torrance, of ollywood, a , �' ys, second -son of the 1895, he attended school here and
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from 'the Canada Company and #t�>t live on good terms. He had druggest and Hector,%!,$ '��I pioneer Robert, married was about to commence
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On the authority of the Belden The Municipal Act 'of 1850 Lot 29 from Edward Viiii'E,mond. bound over one of�them to keep' immigration officer in Goderich 'a�; ��,� Margaret Alexander, . and they university course when he joinecl,
Atlas of Huron, • 1879, James changed all -that. In McKillop, g the •ace, and recollected On' Nqv. 12, 18$6, the Goderich a,� i:'
Lot 28 was acquired in, January, ' P �5c, had 10 children, of whom the the 26th Canadian 'Infantry
Hays, secood son of the pioneer Magistrate Hays was chosen first "Froin the old man for an Si nal was leased to -note that = <" ;, 111.
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and the house, of field stone, was g g p 1 t 3 . 111Reldest was Robert Cockburn Battalion and went overseas.
Robert and brother of William reeve, and. at one time was reeve probably built in'the same near, assault upon Nicholas'. The old "R. Stanley Hays;`forsome years ,�»�� zul t' ,Hays,,born'in McKillop Jan. 14, Wounded at Courcelette, he was
`Torrance' Hays, was also, .a of McKillop, Grey and Hawick. p man was ver f'•„violent."' Mellady ' past in G`arrow & Proudfoot's law 4 s-° � �,� 1853. He attended primary returned to Canada and then
with the'acsistance;of neighbors.. 5 I,.1 , p . Y
farmer and magistrate." He His" youngest son, Thomas E., The well .onsider�d site was on 'was publicly hanged in,Cioderirh office, has been successful in gNt` k� � S : H �� school in the township and High enrolled at Trinity College,
was the father of R.C. was warden of Huron in 1.879. v 1 Y
the high north bank of the jail, ori Dec. 7. passing - his barrister's >RS��:�k�� School, in Goderich. He was University of Toronto, where he!
maitland River which William's younger brother, examinations." By certificate• of F� �� � articled to James T. Garrow receWed his Arts degree in 1920.
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'necessitated construction of a Thomas Edward:, took up the the Benchers of the Law' Societys�j'`,; (afterward Chief Justice), A graduate of Osgoode Hall in
bride at the end of a on lane battle with Gibsetn A former of Upper Canada he was "duly 3;, b 'graduated from 'Osgoode Hall, 1922. he joined his father slaw
from the concession road. ' 'mayor of Seaforth, lie- .vas a called to the Degree of Barrister g ! H and on September 29,' 1882, the firm. ,He became a -King's
This'house continued to shelter candidate in the election of 1873 at law'' as of Nov. 15, he being, �3 Huron •Signal announced that Counsel in 1936, and was five
Rohert and his large faniih' until in East Huron and was defeated then 22' years of age. R 11 "Mr. Robert C. Hays, solicitor, times elected a Bencher of the
his death in 1874, in which year by Gibson by a narruw Stanley Hays, eldest son of s , etc., has,obtained chambers over Law. Society of Upper Canada,
the property passed to Robert's margin --1,994 to 1,953. He tried William Torrance Hays. was born. �'sz,x� r.' �' ��nilfi .;, 11 Butler's book sidle and begun the thus becoming a Life 'Member.
youngest son, Thomas E., then 36 -again in 1.88,6, also against Gibson in Goderich, on Nov. 28, 1864, Robert Stanley Hays, a practice of law. Mr. Hays is well He was first president of the ,
years of age.He lived there for, and was defcated,'2,306 to 1,863. received his ca '.y'education here,' grandson - of Robert Hays, known in Goderich, and begins Goderich Lions Club, "a member
sonic years --he was reeve of Huron had been divided into and graduated -in law from • McKillop settler, practised law in business with every. prospect of of Branch 109, Royal Canadian
'McKillo wand warden of Huron three ridings--Soiith, East and Northwestern University, Sgaforth for many years and was . success. He issa,:leveleheaded, Legion, and for many years
in 1879 --anti after he moved into West. - Chicago, After admission- to -the active in many community affairs. upright young, man, and his chairman of the board of
Seaforth he kept up the According to one biographer, Canadian Bar he practised -for a He'is shown here as a major in the clients can;, depend upon Alexandra Marine, and 'General'
farmhouse, putting on'ra new roof Magistrate Hays, was so annoved short time at " Brussels, 'then . 161st Battalion, C.E.F. in War I. -conscientious work.' "He has Hospital. For' about 10• years he
been described as a self-made 'was a valued member of the
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and boarand of aS . Georg of Maitland
' � E - to i m a g i n @ Mr. Hays put up his "shingle" Lodge No. 33, A.F. & A .M. I.
. first on 'West, Street, then He was survived by his wife,
/ � Emphysema is a long-lasting Hamilton at The Square. Later -he the former Ethel Gibbons Nairn;
= q disease of the lungs which very entered into a, partnership with by one son', .Robert Charles, and
C I + Np � few nonsmokers develop. William Proudfoot, and Proudfoot one daughter, Mrs. Roy Dunlop,
For someone with health and Hays removed to North Street of Goderich. , , •�
I = lungs, it is difficult to imagine premises. Harry Glenn Hays, a son of
. , . = how life feels for a person 'with The late Emma Campbell was a James and Sarah (Archibald)
C AT TREMENDOUS DISC11 = emphysema. But these stenographer with Proudfoot and Hays of Seaforth, attended school
Q 11' , -. 11 -= comments from many different ' Hays until Senator. Proudfoot here, graduated from Osgoode
emphysema patients, which were died. ' ' Hall in 1934 and ,on being called
_ ' See the Large Selection ®� Published in a recent issue of the . Th'ey in from Forth Street to the Sar' practised in Seaforth
magazine, "Respiratory Care,' in a year or so to The Square, she from 1938 until appointed Crown
. . = describe the effects of the disease' recalled. It was Proudfoot, Hays Attorney of Huron in 1948. He
p & Blair in 1905. Blair married a served 12 ears in that office. He
e w "Fords o n. o' u r lot-. = m a grim, graphic way: Y
*Emphysema is thinking the Walker girl. He weft to 'Regina was appointed a Provincial
= , . C next breath won't be there. and the fLrm took in Henty Cook, Magistrate and Judge of the
= *Emphysema is going to my, a very fine man: Cook died and J. Juvenile and Family Court of
= daughter's house for dinner L. Killpran came into the firm. Huron in 19'66, and a Provincial
and ,spending all day There was much 'busifiess ' of Court Judge in 1968. '+
USEDCARS and TRUCKS • ' = tomorrow in bed. winding up estates and lending Judge Hays was the first
= *Emphysema is asking people on mortgage, but what i liked was president of Goderjch• '
C come and see me because I'm court work --examinations for Horticultural Society 'and has
0 '' a lone] discovery, etc." •been a director of Huron , -
70 Ford Galaxie 4 -dr. Sedan 71 Ford "Custom � Y•
_ = . Efnphysema develops in " 1918, R. C. Hays was in • Historical Society since its
'70 Marquis, 2 -door, H7,'. I- • '69 Chev. 1mp'a1a', 2-door,,HT. •= ' gradually. Some of the first signs business alone, until joined in iformation. On moving 'to
/ = of the disease can be shortness of 1921 by his son. He was a deputy' Goderich, he`'purchased• in 1951
= '71 Meteor Rideau '69 Chev. Belair breath during only minor judge from 1917, acting -fn -place the house and extensive grounds ,
I exertion. As the disease of Judge E. N. Lewis, overseas once the home of Judge
'73 Meteor•Rideau '70 Ford Half• Ton I = progresses, the air sacs of the with a battery of field artillery. Lewis, on Essex Street. He
r I I • = lungs, were oxygen and carbon From 1903, Mr. Hays owned married Roberta Johnston, and '
,=' dioxide are exchanged, rip and and occupied the Wellington they have two daughters, Sarah
- • ' = tear. Street house which for some years - Jane and Roberta Johnston.
C - •= Doctors can help patients now has belonged to Dr. R, W. - Since 1951, Judge Bays has •
breath easier with the disease but Hughes. it stands on the site of resided in the picturesque house
N as yet there is no known cure. the Rattenbury House, - with spacious grounds on #,sseit
,= BILL McLAUGHLIN,MOTORS LIDR � The prevention --not smoking• -is presumably demolished Before Street, sometime kh6wnas 'The
® = clear, however. Isaac Rattenbury sold in 1877 to • House of Four Judges having'
FORD Phone 527-1,40 Seaforth MERCU1tY = To find_out more about all ki ds, Donald C.Strachan. Adam � been' occupied previously" ley'
- ' ' = of,. lung diseases con'ta'ct your McVicar built the ,house for. •Judge Wilmot. -,5quief, Judge
'�iiiiililni�innllinliliiillllinllllliilliili'liillilnuilillillllliilllililunllrullllllillloI matter of life d nd breath, It's a business iStrachan n doubleatrertiied a 91 1✓dwatJ Nafmatt�tetitis ,, .lunge
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