"Illustrated History of Lane County, Oregon." Portland, Oregon: A. G. Walling,
publisher, 1884.  pg. 493.
 
HON. RICHARD B. HAYES
     Was born in Warren county, Tenn., May 6, 1831, but when eight years of age
was taken by his parents who moved to Dade county, Missouri, and was reared a
farmer.  On the discovery of gold in California our subject, too, felt the wild
excitement that pervaded the land.  Therefore, in the month of April, 1850,
accompanied by his parents, he joined a train bound for the land of gold, and
after a journey of four months arrived at Cold Springs, near Hangtown, now
Placerville, where he worked in the mines for a year and a half.  On the
expiration of that time Mr. Hayes commenced teaming in the city of Stockton, his
parent shaving proceeded to Oregon, whither our subject came in November, 1852
and choosing Lane county took up a donation claim at Fern Ridge, the property
being now owned by Wesley Washburne.  Here Mr. Hayes remained until 1860, when
he purchased his present farm, situated in township eighteen, section five west
and located fourteen miles southwest from Eugene City, where he owns on thousand
and forty-three acres of good farming land.  In 1855 Mr. Hayes served in the
Rogue river war as a sergeant in Captain Jos. Bailey's company, in which he
rendered good service in scouting expeditions.  He has been four times elected
to the legislative assembly, viz: in 1874, 1876, 1882, and 1884, being defeated
in the election of 1878, a sequence of distinctions that seldom falls to the lot
of any one man, but which have been earned by a strict attention to business and
an earnest desire to do the thing that is right.  As a farmer he shows a marked
interest in the rearing of horses, doing his utmost to improve the breed and
infuse a good strain of blood into the country.   As will be seen from the view
of his residence which appears in another portion of this work, he has
surrounded himself with a comfortable and beautiful home, where he enjoys the
blessings of life, the result of an active and energetic manhood.  Mr. Hayes
married in Lane county.
 
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