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cal  sketch  of  Dr.  Hayhurst  by  Miss  Susannah  G.  Haydock,  which 
will  be  pubHshed  in  the  Alumni  Report  of  the  College.  Additional 
remarks  were  made  by  Miss  Naly,  Dr.  Anna  E.  Broomall,  Mr. 
Charles  C.  Parsons,  Mr.  E.  M.  Boring,  Prof.  C.  B.  Lowe  and 
Professor  Kraemer. 
The  following  sketch  of  Dr.  Hayhurst  is  prepared  in  large  part 
from  the  data  secured  through  Miss  Florence  Yaple  from  various 
of  her  friends  and  relatives,  especially  her  nephew,  Mr.  Walter  F. 
Hayhurst,  a  lawyer  residing  in  Lambertville,  N.  J.,  and  extracts 
adapted  from  a  sketch  by  Miss  Sue  P.  Chambers  which  appeared  in 
Woman's  Progress  some  years  ago  (January,  1895). 
Dr.  Susan  Hayhurst  was  a  descendant  of  Cuthbert  Hayhurst, 
a  member  and  minister  of  Settle  Monthly  Meeting  of  Friends,  in 
Yorkshire,  England,  who  came  to  this  country  in  the  ship  "  Wel- 
come "  with  WilHam  Penn ;  he  died  the  year  following  and  was 
buried  September  2,  1683.  His  widow,  Mary,  took  up  certain  lands 
which  were  allotted  to  him  in  Middletown  Township,  Bucks  County, 
Pa.,  near  the  present  village  of  Langhorne.  Four  generations  later 
her  father,  Thomas  Hayhurst,  was  born  in  this  neighborhood, 
and  married  Martha  Croasdale,  also  of  an  old  Quaker  family;  he 
was  a  man  self-educated,  but  of  considerable  ability  and  many 
talents.  He  was  a  surveyor  and  scrivener.  He  afterwards  moved 
with  his  family  to  Wilmington  and  Camden,  Delaware,  where  he 
engaged  in  the  manufacture  of  "  earthenware,"  and  later  engaged 
in  the  commission  business  in  Philadelphia.  He  also  engaged  in 
school  teaching,  and  about  the  year  1840  with  his  son,  Jeremiah 
Hayhurst,  the  father  of  Walter  F.  Hayhurst,  already  mentioned, 
kept  a  select  school  at  West  Chester,  Pa.  There  were  eight  children 
in  the  family  and  Susan  was  the  second,  having  been  born  December 
25,  1820,  at  Middletown,  Pa. 
Her  schoolgirl  days  were  passed  at  an  institution  in  Wilmington, 
under  the  influence  of  "  Friends."  As  a  student  she  was  particu- 
larly apt  in  mathematics  and  could  recite  verbatim  any  amount  of 
text.  She  would  have  been  considered  an  apt  pupil,  but  when  she 
came  to  teach  found  the  want  of  that  technical  training  which  she 
afterwards  obtained  by  taking  the  best  instructor  available  in  what- 
ever study  she  wished  to  pursue. 
She  commenced  teaching  when  quite  a  young  girl,  her  first  school 
being  in  Bucks  County,  Pa.,  near  Newtown,  and  spent  some  years 
