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From History of Henry County, Illinois (1910)
ALBERT LESLIE HAYES.
No matter in how much fantastic theorizing one may indulge as to the causation of success, careful analysis will bring to light in the great majority of cases the fact that progress and prosperity in the business world are the direct outcome of persistent labor and intelligently directed energy. This is manifest in the record of Albert Leslie Hayes, vice president and manager of the sales department of the Hayes Pump and Planter Company of Galva. It is true that he entered upon a business already established but it is also true that his close application and unfaltering diligence have been elements which have wrought for continued success in this enterprise.
A native of Illinois, he was born near Saxon, November 19, 1873, his father being Eugenio Hayes, the founder of the business, which is now carried on by the sons. He was one of the most honored and prominent residents of Galva not only in his business relations but also by virtue of the sterling traits of character which he manifested, and extended mention of him is made on another page of this volume.
The removal of the family to Kewanee during his early boyhood enabled Albert Leslie Hayes to pursue his preliminary studies in the public schools of, that city and later he continued his education in Galva, to which city he came with is parents in 1885. He was a high school student here and later entered the University of Illinois, at Urbana, in 1893. pursued his studies there for one year and in 1894 matriculated in the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, where he pursued a course in chemistry. He afterward made his home in Council Bluffs, Iowa, for nine years and during that period traveled for the Hayes Pump and Planter Company, largely accelerating its sales through the patronage he secured in introducing its products into various localities* For the past two years he has been the vice president of the company and for the past four years has had charge of the sales department.
On the 17th of June, 1903, Albert L. Hayes was married to Miss Eleanor Lehman, a daughter of William H. and Carrie I. (Swan) Lehman. Mrs. Hayes was born in Des Moines, Iowa, while her parents were natives of Ohio. Her father became a resident of Des Moines at an early day and her mother was one of the early residents of Norwalk, Iowa. The former served as a musician in the Civil war and his musical talent was manifest in the choice of a profession, for he is now proprietor of a music store in Des Moines, where he and his wife have now made their home for a number of years. Mrs. Hayes is their only Hving child. Her paternal grandfather, Henry Lehman, was a native of Ohio and for a long period engaged in the grocery business. He married a Miss Gemmel, and they were early residents of Des Moines, where both passed away at an advanced age. They had a large family including George Lehman, a resident of Columbus, Nebraska; Mrs. Carl Koehler, of Des Moines, who is now deceased; Julia, the wife of F. W. Youngerman; and Henry, who has also passed away. The maternal grandfather of Mrs. Hayes was a native of Norwalk, Ohio, and was a newspaper man who about 1850 was the publisher of a paper in Columbus, Ohio. He represented one of the oldest families of the Buckeye state, his parents having removed from Norwalk, Connecticut, to Ohio, in pioneer times, while later they were residents of Norwalk, Iowa, and named the town in memory of their old home in New England. Mr. and Mrs. Hayes are members of the Episcopal church and Mr. Hayes belongs to the Bluff City Lodge, No. 71, A. F. & A. M. at Council Bluffs, Iowa; Star Chapter, R. A. M., of Council Bluffs; Ivanhoe Commandery, K. T., of the same city; and Des Moines Temple of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. He is a republican in his political views but demands of business leave him no time for political activity. He bonds his energies to the development of the enterprise which his father established and which is one of the foremost industries of Galva.
As printed in History of Henry County, Illinois (1910). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
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