Representative Lorin Nelson Hays View All Years

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Lorin Nelson Hays

Marion County

LORIN NELSON HAYS was born near Fostoria, Wood County, Ohio, August 26, 1847, and died at Knoxville, Iowa, October 15, 1926. At a little over seventeen years of age, or on February 1, 1865, he enrolled as a private in Company K, One Hundred and Eighty-fifth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and was mustered out with the company at Lexington, Kentucky, September 26, 1865. Soon after the close of the war he went to Kansas and taught school a few years, then returned to Ohio and attended Oberlin College for a time, studied law at Tiffin, and in 1873 located at Knoxville, Iowa, and entered a partnership with his brother, E. R. Hays, in the practice of law, which partnership continued until his brother’s death in 1896. This was followed by a partnership with C. H. Amos until Mr. Amos’ death, after which Mr. Hays practiced alone until his election as district judge in 1910. His services in that position dated from, January, 1911, to January, 1923. On retiring from the bench he entered the practice with his son, Norman Hays, and with C. C. Heer, as Hays, Hays & Heer.

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