Word: birchard
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...British fort. That notion Kenyon scouted by graduating many a stanch U. S. citizen, including two members of the Lincoln Cabinet, Secretary of War Edwin McMasters Stanton and Secretary of the Treasury Salmon Portland Chase, the Founder's nephew. Valedictorian of the Class of 1842 was Rutherford Birchard Hayes...
...average U. S. citizen thinks of him at all, he remembers Rutherford Birchard Hayes as a Benign Beard who was the 19th President of the United States. His memory is more important in Paraguay. A well-meaning gentleman who once thought of enlisting for the Mexican War to improve his bronchial trouble, he served as a Colonel under Sheridan in the Civil War, and was elected President in 1876 over Samuel Tilden in the closest, most bitterly disputed election ever held...
...late Rutherford Birchard Hayes, 19th President of the U. S. (1877-81) at his White House desk, working in his shirtsleeves, is lost. He has been lost ever since the late Painter Thomas Eakins of Philadelphia painted him thus, in 1877. Because Eakins' work is increasing in reputation and the lost Hayes canvas is valued at some $75,000, a five-year search by the Babcock Galleries (Manhattan) was invigorated last week by fresh publicity. For the finder there will be "a large reward...
RUTHERFORD B. HAYES: STATESMAN OF REUNION-H. J. Eckenrode-Dodd, Mead ($5)-Rutherford Birchard Hayes, igth U. S. President, perhaps had no legal right to be President at all. Biographer Eckenrode thinks Hayes was not legally elected in 1876, that Democratic Candidate Samuel J. Tilden was the majority's choice. The electoral vote was 185 to 184. But Hayes' election, whether or not strictly legal, gave the U. S. four years of good government. Tilden was "one of the ablest public men in the country, if not the ablest," but Hayes was "one of the best Presidents...