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State senator; treasurer, Indiana Board of World's Fair Managers
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Hayden, son of the Rev. William Hayden, graduated from Victoria College in 1864, took his M.A. in 1866, and served as secretary of the Cobourg and Marmora Railway and Mining Company before coming to Fort Wayne in 1874. He sat on the directorate of the First National Bank and managed a number of large Fort Wayne estates. Allen County sent him to the Indiana House in 1884 for two terms and to the state senate in 1888 for Allen and Whitley counties; in the senate he was active in passing the Australian (secret) ballot law of 1889 and the tax law of 1891. Appointed a World's Fair Commissioner by Governor Hovey in May 1891 — a Democrat chosen by a Republican governor — he was elected treasurer of the Board of World's Fair Managers of Indiana and at the final accounting turned nearly two thousand dollars back into the state treasury. He married Eliza Hanna, only daughter of Judge Samuel Hanna, in 1873.
Sources: Griswold, Pictorial History, Vol. II (1917), biographical sketch and portrait, read first-hand. No second source reached for this profile.