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Hays, Joseph, attorney at 429 Diamond Street, Pittsburgh, Penna, is a
native of Washington county, Penna, where he was born January 9, 1832.
His father was Alexander Hays, also a native of Washington County, Penna,
where he resided from the date of his birth in 1795 until his death in
1845. His mother was Ann V Stevenson Hays, also born in Washington
county, in 1802, and died in 1881.
Joseph Hays attended a private school at Cross Creek, Penna, and later
attended Washington college graduating in 1857. He read law in the office
of Montgomery and Gibson in Washington, and was admitted to the bar of
Washington county in 1865, and to the Allegheny county bar the same year.
He has been in continuous practice in Pittsburg since that date, and is
one of the oldest practitioners in Allegheny county. He has served five
terms as member of the select council for the thirty sixth ward,
Pittsburg, and represented the fourth legislative district in the
legislature during 1875-1876. Mr Hays has always affiliated
with the democrat party. He is a member of the Franklin lodge, No 221 F
and A M of Pittsburgh and his religious view are Presbyterian.
In 1859 he was married to Elizabeth A Crawford. They have three children:
Edgar V Hays, cashier of the Union savings bank; Frank C Hays, bookkeeper
in the Allegheny National Bank; and Anna M Hays, wife of the Rev S J S
Moore, residing in Minnesota. Mr Hays is regarded as one of Pittsburg's
prominent and respected citizens.
Memoirs of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania; personal and genealogical.
Vol. 1 p124
Contributed by Marta Burns.
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