Union County, Ohio Biographies Project - William M. Hayden
WILLIAM M. HAYDEN
William M. Hayden, a dealer in sewing machines, was born in Morrow
County, Ohio, September 9, 1837. He is the son of John and Rachel
(Evans) Hayden, the former born in Pennsylvania in 1812, of German
descent, and the latter a native of Wales. They were married in
Pennsylvania, and, emigrating to Ohio in 1830, located in Morrow
County, where the father still resides, the mother having died in
1857. Our subject is the second child of a family of four
children; he was raised on the farm, and received a good education in
the public high school and at Mount Hestmer College-a college of the
Society of Friends. At the age of seventeen years, he began
teaching district school, which he followed four years. In 1862,
he enlisted in Company D, Sixty-fifth Ohio Infantry, as a Corporal,
and, in 1863, re-enlisted in Company B, Tenth Ohio Cavalry. He
was the Regimental Commissary Sergeant; was promoted to Second
Lieutenant of his company in 1863, and in December of the same year was
commissioned First Lieutenant, in which capacity he served until the
close of the war. He was with Sherman in his march to the sea, in
Kilpatrick's raid, in Libby Prison for a short time, and was finally
discharged in August, 1865. In 1866, he embarked in the
mercantile trade at Alliance,Ohio, but two years later sold his
business and purchased a farm, which he operated successfully for two
years. He then disposed of his farm, and engaged in selling the
domestic sewing machines. He orders machines by the car load, and
has sold at retail over 1,600 machines. He understands his
business in all its branches, is a ready salesman, and a practical
sewing machine man. In 1867, he married Ellen K. Hall, a native
of Ohio, of Scotch descent, who died in 1876, at Elmira, N. Y., leaving
one child, Ordella, now in the Richwood graded schools. Mrs.
Hayden was a member of the Baptist Church.