Maj. Eugene Beauharnais Hayward

From "History of Davenport and Scott County" Vol. II by Harry E. Downer-S. J. Clarke Publishing Co. 1910 Chicago.

Surnames: Hayward, Dickerson, Chapman, Cruikshank, Pierce, Kimball.

Among those who have come from eastern districts to Scott county to become identified with its business interests may be numbered Major E. B. Hayward, who is well known as a successful lumber manufacturer of Davenport. His success in all his undertakings has been so marked that his methods are of interest to the commercial world, and investigation into his history shows that he has based his business principles and actions upon strict adherence to the rules which govern economy, industry and unswerving integrity. Born in Essex county, New York, October 25, 1842, he comes of a family that has long lived in the eastern states and has also been prominent in military circles. Tracing the ancestry back through four generations in the paternal line, we come to the great-grandparents, Ephraim and Phoebe (Dickerson) Hayward. The former was born in New Jersey in 1760 and served in Washington's army throughout the Revolutionary war. He passed away at Ellenburg, New York, in 1849, when he had reached the very advanced age of eight-nine years. His family included David Hayward, the grandfather of our subject, who was born in July, 1790, and was married to Miss Lucretia Chapman. David Hayward was a prominent lumberman of Essex county. The father, William J. Hayward, was born in 1813. He engaged in merchandising and also followed the occupation of farming and the lumber business, becoming a very successful man. His wife bore the maiden name of Betsy Leland and was a granddaughter of Thomas Leland, one of the Lexington Minute Men. In 1876 Mr. and Mrs. Hayward left eh east and removed to Davenport, spending their remaining years in this city. E. B. Hayward was reared under the parental roof and acquired his education in the schools of Essex county. He enlisted there as a member of the Fifth New York Cavalry in 1861 for service in the Civil war. He became a private but was promoted to captain and later to brevet major in the Army of the Potomac. He served faithfully and valiantly for four years, after which he received an honorable discharge. Following his return from the field of battle, Mr. Hayward engaged in business in New York for one years and subsequently removed with his family to Wisconsin, where he spent two years. He still sought another field, in which to give scope to his activity and accordingly made a permanent location in April, 1869, at Davenport. He engaged in the lumber business with the firm of Lindsay & Phelps Company, while later he assisted I organizing the Eagle Lumber Company and Hayward Timber Company of Texas and the State Lumber Company of Vancouver, British Columbia. He seems well fitted of leadership in this line and has made a close study of the lumber trade in all its branches. He is now doing business long this line in Davenport, being numbered among the successful merchants in this particular branch in the city. Mr. Hayward was married on the 7th of April, 1864, to Miss Ellen Phelps, a daughter of Elihu and Margaret (Cruikshank) Phelps. They have one daughter and one son, Elmer Leland, who wedded Miss May Pierce, by whom he has one daughter, Lulu; and Ellen I., who married W. H. Kimball and has two children, Herbert H. and William P. Mr. Hayward is an active member of St. John Methodist Episcopal church, having been chairman of the building committee during the construction of the church and parsonage on the corner of Fourteenth and Brady streets. Mr. Hayward is not given to participation to any great extent with fraternal orders, the only society to which he belongs being that of the Loyal Legion. He is, however, a thorough business man with a talent for leading, which is one of eh highest attributes of man and a necessity in these days of close competition.

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