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...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...
...Died. Birchard Rustin Hayes, 72, noted Toledo lawyer, eldest son of President Rutherford Birchard Hayes; at Toledo, of chronic stomach trouble...
...President Hayes had four sons, all but one of whom are living. "1) Birchard A. Hayes, a well known lawyer in Toledo...