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administrative work embraced all phases of geologic research as well as 

 a great industrial enterprise. It is difficult to name any other American 

 geologist who made so conspicuous a success in so many strongly con- 

 trasting fields of activity. 



Ancestry 



Charles Willard Hayes, known to his family and intimates as Willard, 

 was born at Granville, Ohio, on October 8, 1858. He was the oldest son 

 and fifth child of Charles Colemen and Euth Rose Wolcott Hayes. Both 

 parents were descendants of colonial families which migrated to Ohio in 

 the early part of the nineteenth century. He was the fifth generation 

 of the Hayes family in America, the progenitor of the stock having come 

 to Maryland from the north of England in the latter part of the seven- 

 teenth century. On his mother's side he was a descendant of the Wolcott 

 family of Connecticut, which was prominent in colonial and Revolutionary 

 history. Through his mother he was closely related to the Winchells of 

 Massachusetts, a family which includes several geologists among its 

 descendants. 



Hayes's father was a tanner by trade, a vocation that was only inter- 

 rupted by his service during the Civil War, when he left his wife and 

 small children to go to the front. In 1868 he moved to Hanover, Ohio, 

 where he established a small tannery. He had made full use of very 

 meager opportunities for education. His son Willard inherited his cheer- 

 ful disposition, his forcefulness of character, mechanical ability, and his 

 thoroughness in doing any task undertaken. 



Hayes's mother was a graduate of the seminary at Granville and had 

 been a teacher before her marriage. Her thirst for knowledge went far 

 beyond the opportunities afforded to a hard-working woman living under 

 pioneer conditions. It was from her that Hayes inherited his strong 

 intellectual tastes, and it was her inspiration which led all her children 

 to seek a higher education. A strong influence in turning Hayes toward 

 a professional career was his older sister, Prof. Ellen Hayes, of Wellesley 

 College, whose inspiration and help guided him throughout his collegiate 

 life. 



Boyhood 



As a boy Hayes was a sturdy youngster, full of enterprise and without 

 fear, even when very young. His love of outdoor vocations was so marked 

 that it was strange that he ever reconciled himself to his original plan 

 of an academic career based on the chemical laboratory. His favorite 

 pastime as a boy was excursions for collecting, hunting, and fishing, in 

 which his older sisters were his constant companions. An early enter- 



