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Mr. Hays had the honor of being chosen to. make the presentation speech when, on Jan. 30, 1912, the flag of his old command in the 103d Pennsylvania Regiment was given to. Memorial Hall at Pittsburgh. His wife, Mrs. Keziah J. (Foster) Hays, who had helped to. make the flag more than fifty years before,
Thomas Hay
MRS THOMAS PAYS
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was also present, as were many of the men who fought under it. As noted above, Mr. Hays was in the same command as a number of his schoolmates. When the Civil war began Keziah J. Foster and a number of other school- girls made for Company B the first American flag of the 103d Pennsylvania Regiment, which was then recruiting in Camp Orr, Kit- tanning, Pa., and presented it to the company with the charge to shoot on the spot any one who attempted to pull it down. This flag was always held in high esteem by all the boys, and was carried through all their battles in the war. At the battle of Plymouth, N. C., the regiment was surrounded by a larger force of the enemy, and after many days of fighting, with the loss of many killed and wounded, it became necessary for the regiment to sur- render or all die. When the surrender took place the boys took good care that this flag did not fall into the hands of the enemy. It was concealed around the waist of the custodian, Conrod Petzinger, and carried by him eleven months while in the Andersonville prison, and when the regiment returned from prison at the close of the war and was discharged from the army, the flag was still treasured carefully. Now, inclosed in a neat frame, it may be seen at Memorial Hall, Pittsburgh, where it occu- pies an honorable place.
On Dec. 21, 1865, Mr. Hays was married to Keziah J. Foster, of Cowansville; she was born in Sugar Creek township, on the old Fos- ter homestead farm, and attended the same school as her husband. They have had a fam- ily of six children: (1) Jennie L. Hays, born Jan. 16, 1867, was married Oct. 22, 1890, to Dr. V. F. Thomas, of Evans City, Butler Co., Pa., and they have had five children, Lister Hays (born Nov. 25, 1891), Ethel (born Aug. 9, 1896), Allen (born April 13, 1899), Gene- vieve (born March 31, 1903) and Frank (born Sept. 27, 1905). (2) Christopher F. Hays, born Dec. 13, 1868, is engaged in farming and the oil business. On April 20, 1899, he mar- ried Lilley Logan, and they have one child, George Thomas Hays, born May 22, 1901. (3) Robert N. Hays, born Nov. 13, 1870, farmer and oil producer, resides on the old "Haysville" farm. He married Iva Brackney Feb. 10, 1897, and they have one daughter, Audrey Ivetta Hays, born July 26, 1898. (4) Dr. John V. Cowden June 27, 1906. (5) Thomas Henderson Hays, born Dec. 19, 1874, died Aug. 24, 1901, unmarried. (6)
Charles Frederick Wells Hays, born Nov. 12, 1876, died Nov. 24, 1902, unmarried.
In maternal lines Mr. Hays is connected with other families whose names have been prominent in the history of Pennsylvania, the Blaines, McKees, Fosters, Galbraiths and Chambers all having borne their part in the activities of the early days in the Common- wealth. His grandmother, Margaret (Blaine) McKee, was a daughter of James and Deborah (Baird) Blaine, and a cousin of Hon. James G. Blaine.
Col. Ephraim Blaine, who was the great- grandfather of James G. Blaine, was born in Ireland in 1744, and was but one year old when, in 1745, his parents brought him to America, the family settling in Cumberland county, Pa., at or near Carlisle. He had two brothers and one sister, Alexander (who had two children, Mary and Elizabeth), William (who had three children, Isabella, Alexander T. and Ephraim) and Ellen (married Col. Samuel Lyon). The name of Ephraim Blaine appears in the list of men residing at Fort Pitt July 22, 1760. He became one of the prominent citizens of his region, serving his county and country with honor and fidelity. In 1771 he was sheriff of Cumberland county. In the earlier years of the Revolution he was a resident of Carlisle.
The following extract is from the new American Encyclopedia: "At the time the Revolutionary war was inaugurated Col. Eph- raim Blaine was living at his princely estate at Middlesex, in Cumberland county. He at once offered his personal services and means to the patriotic cause, and he was forthwith com- missioned by the Continental Congress as col- onel and attached to the Pennsylvania Line of troops, and did not 'ground arms' until the contest was over and the victory won. His services were gallant and patriotic. He was with General Washington in many of the most trying scenes of the Revolution and enjoyed the confidence of his chief. During the dark winter at Valley Forge the preservation of the army from starvation was in a great degree owing to the exertions and sacrifices of Col- onel Blaine. Gen. George Washington and Col. Ephraim Blaine were warm personal friends and kept up a correspondence for fif- teen years. Many letters to Colonel Blaine from General and President Washington are ants."
In the spring of 1777 the appointment of sub-lieutenant of Cumberland county was
Maud B. Hays, born Oct. 16, 1872, married in the possession of Colonel Blaine's descend-
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and granddaughters of Ephraim Blaine, who were desirous of obtaining a patent and per- fect title. The tract was found to contain 1,099 acres. Ephraim Blaine had paid for 1,000 acres, but these heirs considered that the excess of ninety-nine acres would be a fair equivalent for obtaining the patent, and com- pleting the title. They therefore conveyed to Hays and Gilchrist the entire tract, which sub- sequently became vested in John Hays, of Car- lisle, Pa., partly in his own right and partly in that of his children, Mary W. Hays, after- ward the wife of Captain West, U. S. A., Robert B. Hays and John Hays, Jr. John Hays, Sr., conveyed his right in that trust to David Ralston March 23, 1839, for $7,375, and by virtue of an act of Assembly, approved July 5, 1839, he conveyed as guardian the interests of his wards therein, Oct. 5, then next, to David Ralston, for $1,000. John Hays, Sr., was the son of John and Mary Hays, the latter the famous "Molly Pitcher" of the Revolution.
tendered Colonel Blaine, which he declined as follows in his letter to President Whar- ton : "The difference of sentiment which prevails in Cumberland county about the con- stitution and the ill-judged appointment of part of the sub-lieutenants are my principal reasons for not accepting for the present the position your honor and the council are pleased to offer me of the lieutenancy. I shall, how- ever, study to render the public every service in my power." He was later (1778) appointed deputy commissary general for the middle de- partment, with the rank of colonel, and served as quartermaster, as shown by a letter of Nov. 3, 1780, to him, from Colonel Brodhead. Dur- ing the "dark winter" at Valley Forge the preservation of the army from starvation was in a great degree owing to the exertions and sacrifices of Colonel Blaine. In February or March, 1780, he was appointed commissary general, which position he probably filled until the close of the war, and he had the distinc- tion of being the personal friend and confidant of Washington, who visited him during the Ephraim Blaine died at Carlisle in 1804 (in 1808 according to the new American En- cyclopedia). He and his first wife Rebecca (Galbraith) are buried at the Meetinghouse Springs Church (of which they were mem- bers), on Yellow Breeches creek, about one and a half miles from Carlisle, Pa. The site of Colonel Blaine's old home is near by, and he had a distillery on the creek. His second wife was Mrs. Duncan, widow of Judge Dun- can. He had two children, both born to his first marriage, James and Robert, the former marrying Margaret Lyon (their son Ephraim was the father of James G. Blaine). Whiskey Insurrection. They kept up a cor- respondence for fifteen years, and many let- ters to the colonel from President Washing- ton are in the possession of Ephraim Blaine's descendants. He was an original mem- ber of the Pennsylvania Society of the Cincinnati. Colonel Blaine once owned two lots in Pittsburgh just below where the Point bridge terminates on the South Side, which he sold to Isaac Craig and which formed part of the site of the first glass works erected in the city. [The name of one Ephraim Blaine is found on a list attached to a petition addressed to the managers of the United Robert Blaine, son of Ephraim and Rebecca (Galbraith), lived in Washington county, Pa. He married Anna Susan Metzgar, and had the following children : (I) Rebecca married Rev. J. Chamberlain, D. D., a distinguished Presby- terian minister who served as president of Center College, in Kentucky, and of Oakland University, in Mississippi. They had children : Susan, Mary, Martha, Clarissa and John. (2) Carlisle, for many years a leading lawyer and able jurist of Cumberland county, and their children were Robert and Jane Byers. (3) Ephraim. (4) Ellen married Levi Wheaton and (second) John Hays (she being his second wife; he was a son of John and Mary Hays, States Bank at Philadelphia "from citizens of Pittsburgh for a branch at that place, 1817." It was successful.] Two tracts of land con- taining 400 and 474 acres, respectively, were surveyed to Ephraim Blaine in Wayne town- ship, Armstrong Co., Pa., Glade run traversing the territory of which the northern (the larger) tract consisted, in a westerly and northwesterly course. The Timothy Picker- Anna S. married Hon. Samuel Alexander, of ing & Co. tract, covered by warrant dated May 17, 1785, was a part of Gen. James Pot- ter's estate, which became vested in his son, James Potter, who covenanted May 9, 1795, to convey it as containing 1,000 acres to Ephraim Blaine. His heirs, believing that he made a deed therefor that was lost, for the the latter the famous "Molly Pitcher" of the purpose of confirming and ratifying their Revolution), and had five children, two by her father's agreement, executed March 20, 1837, first marriage, Ellen Blaine and Mary Blaine, a deed to John Hays and Rev. Adam Gilchrist, and three by the second, Robert, John (mar- whose wives were daughters of Robert Blaine ried Jennie Smead) and Mary Blaine (married
CHRISTOPHER A. FOSTER
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Richard Mulligan and had a daughter Sophia). executors of James Blain, which he had (5) Mary married Rev. Adam Gilchrist and vested in Joseph Blain, and was included in his conveyance to the Brady's Bend company. had children, Susan, Maria and Fanny. (6) James married Deborah Baird.' (This record of Robert Blaine and his family is taken from a "Family Memorial" published in 1867, con- taining "fragments of family and contempor- ary history," and some records of the Robin- son, McCord and Blaine families.)
James and Deborah (Baird) Blaine had the following children: Joseph, William, John, James, and daughters Nancy Blaine Hannah, Mary Blaine Anderson, Margaret Blaine Mc- Kee. We have the following record of the four sons: (I) Joseph Blaine's sons are Dr. Cyrus Blaine, of near Butler, Pa., and James, John, Ephraim and Samuel, all of Butler coun- ty. (2). William Blaine lived in Armstrong county, Pa., and died at the age of ninety years in Illinois ; his sons are James, Edward and John Blaine. (3) John Blaine, formerly of Armstrong county, lives in Illinois. His children are sons William and Harvey, daugh- ters Eliza, Ellenor, Jane, Deborah, Nancy, Margaret, Bell and Hattie. (4) James Blaine lived in Armstrong county, Pa., and died at about the age of eighty-eight. His children were Morrison Blaine, the eldest son, who has been dead for some years, his children now living in Missouri; Dr. J. M. Blaine, of Den- ver, Colo .; Harvey Blaine, now living on the old home farm in Armstrong county ; Hattie Blaine Fleming, living at Slate Lick, Pa .; Mrs. Bricker and Mrs. Adams, living in Penn- sylvania. .
James and Deborah (Baird) Blaine both died in Sugar Creek township, Armstrong county, and are buried in the Union cemetery at Cowansville.
On Oct. 29, 1813, one Frederick Shoop agreed to sell to James "Blain" 100 acres, for $300, in four annual payments, a part of each to consist of one cow, to be valued by two neighbors, if the parties could not agree upon the price. . Shoop's administra- tors conveyed to Blain the parcel which Shoop had sold to him, to Deborah and Joseph Blain, executors of James Blain, which he had vested in Joseph Blaine, and was included in his con- veyance to the Brady's Bend company.
On Oct. 29, 1813, one Frederick Shoop agreed to sell to James "Blain" 100 acres, for $300, in four annual payments, a part of each to consist of one cow, to be valued by two neighbors, if the parties could not agree upon the price ........ Shoop's administrators con- veyed to Blain the parcel which Shoop had sold to him, to Deborah and Joseph Blain, standing on the farm of Alexander Foster,
The will of James Blaine, of what was then Sugar Creek township, recorded in Arm- strong county Will Book I, pages 17-18, de- vises to wife Deborah and to sons and daugh- ters of William Blaine, John Blaine, James Blaine, Polly Anderson, Peggie (Margaret) McKee and Eleanor.
In August, 1797, James and William "Blain" made an improvement and settlement on a tract in Sugar Creek township which was surveyed to them by George Ross as con- taining 410 acres, 20 perches, Nov. 17, 1803. The whole of the Blain interest seems to have become vested in James, and in his will (above), dated March 27th and registered Dec. 6, in 1815, he devised his purpart equally to his sons James, John and William. The two last named conveyed their interests to their brother James March 3, 1839, for $150 each.
On Sept. 1, 1848, Elijah Davis conveyed 230 acres, 47 perches to Joseph Blain for $I,100, ten acres of which Blain conveyed to Thomas H. Foster Aug. 11, 1855; on June 28, 1858, he conveyed to Foster 145 acres, 103 perches, for $1,747.50. The rest of the Blain purchase was subsequently owned by Thomas Patton and D. C. Mobley.
Andrew McKee, great-grandfather of Thomas Hays in the maternal line, and his son Thomas McKee, father of Mrs. Deborah Jane Hays, are fully mentioned elsewhere in this work. (See McKee family.)
The Foster family, to which Mrs. Keziah (Foster) Hays, wife of Hon. Thomas Hays, belongs, is descended from Alexander Foster, a native of Ireland, who settled in Sugar Creek township, Armstrong Co., Pa. He married Elizabeth Harrold, whose brother and sisters were: Lucinda, wife of John Clawson, of Indiana county, Pa .; Christopher Harrold, of Wayne county, Ohio: Sally, wife of John Laird, a farmer of Franklin township, Arm- strong county ; and Mattie, wife of Oliver Laird, a farmer of the same township. Mr. and Mrs. Foster had children: (1) Martha married James McGarvey. (2) Christopher A. is mentioned below. (3) Thomas married Martha Morrison, sister of his brother Chris- topher's wife. (4) William married Mary Ambrose. (5) Katherine married Matthew Brown, who had been her school teacher and had also taught her brother Christopher and the parents of Thomas Hays, the schoolhouse
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grandfather of Mrs. Thomas Hays. (6) Eliza vania. The Galbraiths have long been estab- became the wife of Harrison Gibson, a farmer. (7) Sarah married William Morrison, son of John. (8) Phoebe married Harvey McKee. (9) Margaret married William McClatchey. (10) Nancy died when a young girl. All of the family is now deceased. The Fosters were all Presbyterians in religious association.
Alexander Foster early settled in Sugar Creek township on a large tract originally con- veyed to Charles Campbell, who on June 14, 1821, conveyed 100 acres, 25 perches to Fos- ter for $10. The latter acquired title to the rest of the tract (comprising 356 acres, 37 perches) except about ninety acres in the northwestern part, which constituted the farm on which he lived at the time of his death, and which by his will, dated April 17, 1828, and registered May 19, 1838, he devised to his sons, Christopher, Thomas and William, which he directed to be divided into three equal parts as to quantity, and allotted the part on which was the house, in which he then lived, to Christopher, the west end to Thomas, and the northeastern part to William. Christopher Foster's name figures in later real estate trans- actions in Sugar Creek township. We also find record of the John Craig tract, No. 3652, called "Leeds," 245 acres of which Alexander Foster purchased May 24, 1828, for $612.50. Craig's run traverses it in a southerly course nearly through, a little west of, the center.
CHRISTOPHER A. FOSTER, son of Alexander, was a near neighbor of Thomas Hays, who subsequently married his daughter Keziah; they were schoolmates. Mr. Foster was a farmer, later a merchant at Cowansville and was prominent in the public affairs of his lo- cality, serving as justice of the peace (fifteen years) and school director. He was a Repub- lican in politics and Presbyterian in religion. He married Isabel Morrison, daughter of William and Margaret (Barnes) Morrison, of Armstrong county. Mr. and Mrs. Foster had children as follows : Keziah J., wife of Thomas Hays; Phoebe, who married Matthew Mc- Garey, of Butler county (both are deceased) ; Elizabeth, wife of C. W. Jordan, of Cowans- ville; Sarah B., deceased, wife of William Luton (he resides on the Thomas Hays farm, "Haysville") ; Nancy, who died when fifteen years old; and Mary A. and Alice, who died in infancy.
Through Rebecca Galbraith, wife of Col. Ephraim Blaine, Mr. Hays traces his descent from another family of sturdy Scotch-Irish origin which has long been settled in Pennsyl-
lished in America, and in the old country date back to the remote antiquity of Scotland. The name is derived from the Celtic and originally belonged to the Lennox in that country. The Galbraith chiefs had their residence in the par- ish of Baldernoch. The Galbraiths of the isle of Chiga descended from those of Balder- noch, as may be traced in the ancient records, having fled thither with Lord James Stewart, youngest son of Murdoch, Duke of Albany, from the Lennox, after burning Dumbarton, in the reign of James I. of Scotland. They continued to hold that island until after 1500. The following lines from the Scotch show the estimate in which the name was held :
Galbraiths from the Red Tower. Noblest of Scottish surnames.
There is a small town of Scotland called "Inch (Island) Galbraith." Upon it are many ruins of castles and villages, the strongholds built by the clan when war was the rule.
When Hon. W. A. Galbraith, of Erie, Pa., was traveling in Scotland, hearing that a fam- ily by the same name lived close to where he stopped, he went to call on them. He had with him a coat of arms preserved by the family in America, which he showed them, and they immediately produced a precise counterpart, the arms showing three bears' heads, muzzled, on a shield surmounted by a knight's helmet and crest with the motto, which, translated, is, "Stronger from opposition." Thus the origin of the family is established without doubt.
James Galbraith, the first of the line under consideration to settle in America, was born in 1650 in the North of Ireland, son of John Galbraith, and emigrated in 1718 with his fam- ily, settling in Donegal, Lancaster county, Pa. He was a man of influence and prominence in his day, and was among the founders of the old Derry Church, in what is now Dauphin county, Pa., near Derry station, and is buried in the old graveyard of that church. He died Aug. 23, 1744. The first regular pastor of this church, Rev. William Bertram, died May 2, 1746, and is buried near the church. Rebec- ca (Chambers), wife of James Galbraith, was a daughter of Arthur Chambers, who with the Allen, Allison, Armstrong, Boyd, Berryhill, Barnet, Bell, Black, Campbell, Clark, Carother, Crain, Carson, Calhoun, Craig, Cadwell, Cun- ningham, Cochran, Dixon, Dickey, Daugherty, Elder, Espy, Foster, Ferguson, Gilmore, Gov- en, Gray, Graham, Galbraith, Henderson, Hayes, Hampton, Jones, Johnson, Kelley,
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Laird, McCormick, McClure, McNair, Mc- thority and he was frequently consulted dur- Keehan, Mitchell, Murray, McKee, Mc- ing the Revolution on matters pertaining to the prosecution of that war.
Creight, McDonald, McArthur, McMurray, McKnight, Montgomery, Ramsey, Rogers, Rutherford, Reed, Sloan, Sterett, Snodgrass, Strain, Stewart, Smith, Simpson, Sturgeon, Todd, Wilson, Wallace, McMahan families settled in the district just referred to between 1720 and 1730. Five children were born to James and Rebecca (Chambers) Galbraith, viz .: John, Andrew, James, Jr., Elenor (mar- ried Patrick McKinley) and Rebecca (mar- ried a Stewart).
John Galbraith, son of James, born 1690, resided where the Mount Joy and Marietta turnpikes cross Donegal run ; he owned a large tract of land. He was elected sheriff of Lan- caster county in 1731 and was a prominent man in his locality. He died 1754. In 1757 Janet, his widow, and James Galbraith sold the mill which he built to John Baley.
Andrew Galbraith, son of James, born in 1692, lived near his brother John, his home being on Little Chicques creek. When Lan- caster county was organized he was appointed the first coroner, and he and his brother John were members of the first jury drawn. In 1730 he was appointed one of the justices of the peace and of the Common Pleas court, which position he filled with honor until 1745. In 1732 he was elected a member of the As- sembly in a spirited contest, in which his wife took an active part. Mounting her mare "Nellie" she rode around among the Scotch- Irish, who followed her to Lancaster, to the polls, where she addressed them effectively. He was afterward reelected without opposi- tion, serving several terms in succession.
James Galbraith, Jr., was born in the North of Ireland in 1703 and died June II, 1785, in East Pennsboro township, Cumberland coun- ty ; he is buried in the Derry graveyard. He took up a tract of land in what is now Derry township, Dauphin county, on Spring creek, not far from Church Oleon, the warrant therefor being granted him March 13, 1737. The early provincial records of Pennsylvania speak frequently of him, for he was promi- nent in military circles and served in 1742-43 as sheriff of Lancaster county, where he was also justice of the peace for many years. He took an active part in the French and Indian war, serving as an officer from 1755 to 1763, and during the Revolutionary war, in which all his sons served, he was appointed lieutenant of Cumberland county, being too old for act- ive duty in the field ; his long experience as an officer gave him considerable prestige and au-
On April 6, 1734, James Galbraith married, in Christ Church, Philadelphia, Elizabeth Ber- tram, who was born in 1714 in the North of Ireland, only daughter of Rev. William and Elizabeth (Gillispie) Bertram. Mrs. Gal- braith died Feb. 2, 1799, in Derry township, Dauphin county, the mother of the following children : William, Bertram, Robert, Dorcas, Elizabeth, Thomas, John and Ann. Robert Galbraith's daughter Rebecca married Col. Ephraim Blaine, and they were the great- grandparents of Hon. James G. Blaine.
Bertram Galbraith, second son of James Galbraith, Jr., was first lieutenant in Lancaster county during the Revolution, doing excellent service for his country in that capacity. He was the progenitor of a branch of the Gal- braith family now represented in Northum- berland county, Pennsylvania.
M. J. McQUADE, president of the Ben Franklin Coal Company, of Freeport, was born Nov. 16, 1863, in Scotland, a son of Peter and Catherine (Nickol) McQuade.
Peter McQuade came to America in 1870, bringing his family with him, and settled in Mansfield, Pa., where he followed coal mining until his retirement. This excellent man died in 1893, and his wife in 1903. They had nine children, eight of whom are living. Peter McQuade was a devout Catholic. The Demo- cratic party had his political support.
M. J. McQuade left school when ten years old to work at the coal mines. Later he became a coal miner and continued in that line of work until 1903, when he took charge for the Dunbar Furnace Company as a fore- man in the mines, being thus employed for three years. He then came to Freeport in 1907, and engaged as mine foreman for the Kerr Coal Company, holding that position from 1907 to 1911. Mr. McQuade is one of the Ben Franklin Coal Company, of which he became president in 1907, and still retains that important office. This company has extensive coal mines at Moundsville, W. Va., and Brae- burn and Metcalf, Pa. He devotes the greater part of his time to attending to the affairs of his company, and as he has spent his life in this line of work has gained valuable experi- ence, profitable to his fellow stockholders. His judgment, being based upon a practical knowledge of the business from the bottom up, is expert, and is relied upon by others in the same line.
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