The History of the Yakima Valley, Washington, Comprising Yakima, Kittitas and
Benton Counties, The S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1919, Volume II, page 767 

RICHARD HENRY HAYDEN.

Richard Henry Hayden, of Yakima, who has been prominently identified with
reclamation and irrigation projects and is now secretary of the Tieton Water
Users' Association, making his home in Yakima, was born in Cheboygan, Michigan.
on the 25th of July, 1882, a son of William and Bessie (Granger) Hayden. After
acquiring his education in the schools of Michigan, he made his way to the west
in 1905, when a young man of twenty-three years, establishing his home at
Everett, Washington. In the fall of 1905, however, he carne to Yakima and made
his initial step in its business circles as clerk in a grocery store. In 1906 he
entered the reclamation service and later became a member of the Midland
Engineering Company, with which he was identified from 1908 until 1910
inclusive, in charge of its office work. He is now doing contract work in
connection with irrigation. In 1910 he again entered the reclamation service as
cost keeper on the Clear Creek dam and later was associated with the Sunnyside
project on the Benton extension, having charge of the clerical work. In 1915 he
became secretary of the Tieton Water Users' Association and has since acted in
that capacity. His efforts in these various connections have contributed in
marked measure to the reclamation, irrigation and development of the sections in
which he has labored and he is now, in addition to his service as secretary of
the Tieton Water Users' Association, the secretary of the Yakima-Tieton
irrigation district. He is likewise the secretary of the Washington irrigation
Institute and there is perhaps no man who is more largely familiar with
irrigation projects and problems in this section of the state or is more capable
of speaking with authority upon questions which have to do with the reclamation
of the and districts and the wise utilization of the water supply.

In 1910 Mr. Hayden was united in marriage to Miss Adah Shannon, of Prosser,
Washington, and they have one son, Robert John. Mr. Hayden belongs to Yakima
Lodge No. 24, F. & A. M.; Yakima Chapter No. 21, R. A. M.; Yakima Commandery No.
13, K. T., of which he was installed as eminent commander January 7, 1919; and
Yakima Council No. 12, R. & S. M. He is also a member of Afifi Temple of the
Mystic Shrine and an active member of the Eastern Star. His membership relations
further extend to the Commercial Club and he is interested in every project put
forth by that organization for the benefit and upbuilding of the city. In
politics he is a republican and he attends the Methodist Episcopal church. He
has a fine ranch on the Sunnyside project which is the visible evidence of his
life of well directed energy and thrift. Thoroughness characterizes everything
that he undertakes and this has been a most valuable feature in promoting the
irrigation and reclamation projects with which he has been associated. His work
has been indeed of great value to the districts in which he has labored and
Yakima justly accounts him one of her representative men.

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Submitted to the Washington Bios Project in January 2008 by Jeffrey L. Elmer.
Submitter has no additional information about the subject of this article.