MEMORANDA. 



United States Commissioner Wil- 

 liam A. Hayes, 2nd. passed away on 

 Tuesday at his late home, 396 Mount 

 Auburn street. 



Mr. Haves was born in Portsmouth, 

 N. H., June 29, 1843, and was the son 

 of John Lord Hayes, and Caroline 

 Sarah (Ladd) Hayes. He was a des- 

 cendant of John Hayes who settled 

 in Dover, N. H., in 1680. He studied 

 al Harvard, from which college he re- 

 ceived his degree of A. M. in 1866 and 

 his LL.B. from the Harvard Law 

 School in 1868. He was admitted to 

 the Suffolk Bar that same year, and 

 since had practiced in Boston up to the 

 time he received his higher appoint- 

 ment to the commissionership. 



Mr. Hayes was assistant United 

 States Attorney for three years and 

 had been United States Commissioner 

 since 1906. In this city, his home city, 

 he was formerly in the common coun- 

 cil. He was a member of the Bar 

 Association of the City of Boston, 

 the Massachusetts Society of the Cin- 

 cinnati and the Military Historical 

 Society. 



In 1872 Commissioner Hayes joined 

 ' the First Corps Cadets as a private 

 and forged his way upward from the 

 ranks through every position until he 

 attained the rank of lieutenant colonel. 

 His first advancement was a promo- 

 tion to a lieutenancy eight years after 

 his enlistment. His promotion to the 

 lieutenant colonelcy came with his re- 

 tirement in 1907, when he received 

 high praise from the late Governor 

 Curtis Guild tor both his services as 

 a volunteer Soldier and for the work 

 he had done in improving the smalt 

 arms practice of the corps. His first 

 important tour of duty as a member 

 of the Cadets came when the great 

 Boston fire swept away three-quarters 

 of the business section of the Hub. 



