BIO: Thomas Renick HAYES, Centre County, PA

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Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania: Including the 
Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion: Containing Biographical 
Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens, Etc. 
Chicago: J. H. Beers, 1898.
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COMMEMORATIVE BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD, pages 108-109

THOMAS RENICK HAYES, M.D., of Bellefonte, Centre county, is of Revolutionary 
stock, and of ancestry that is of the hardy and sturdy Irish race, which so 
early came to the Susquehanna country and played so important a part in the 
development of that country and society.  
  In the old Derry churchyard, in Dauphin county, rest the remains of Patrick 
Hayes and wife.  He was a native of Ireland, born in County Donegal in 1705, and 
in 1725 came to America and located in what is now Derry township, Dauphin 
county.  The records of the warrantees of lands in that township show that 
January 10, 1737, he became warrantee to 300 acres of land.  His death occurred 
January 31, 1790.  Robert, their second son, was born in 1733, and in 1762 
married Margaret Wray, of Derry township.  John Hayes, eldest son of Robert, 
became deputy surveyor of Northumberland county, and later of Union county.  
Many of the surveys in Centre county were made by him as a deputy-surveyor of 
Northumberland county.  His birth occurred in 1765, and in 1786 he came to 
Buffalo Valley, in what subsequently became Union county.  In 1796 he married 
Margaret Gray, a daughter of Capt. William Gray, of the Revolution (Capt. Gray, 
as a lieutenant, was prisoner from August 27, 1776, to December 8, 1776; he died 
at Sunbury, July 18, 1804, at the age of fifty-four), and resided on the river 
just above the town of Lewisburg.  Robert Hayes, in 1790, bought the old Andrew 
Foster farm, located above Mifflinburg, which at his death was purchased by his 
son John.  The latter died May 16, 1844; his children were:  Robert Goodlow 
Harper, Nancy, David, Samuel, Joseph, William, Margaret, Anne and James; of whom 
the first named was the father of the subject of this sketch.
  Robert Goodlow Harper Hayes was born in 1797, and December 27, 1827, was 
married to Esther Renick Forster.  He resided on the old home of his grandfather 
and father, where he died May 2, 1854.  His wife's death occurred August 2, 
1856.  He had been an elder in the Presbyterian Church nineteen years.  
  Dr. Thomas Renick Hayes received his education at Academia, in Juniata county, 
under Prof. J.H. Shumaker, and at Lafayette College.  In 1864 he was graduated 
from the Chicago Medical College, then practiced some years at Oconomowoc, Wis., 
successfully.  In 1870 he located in practice at Bellefonte.  In 1876 he 
assisted in organizing the Centre County Medical Society, of which he became an 
original member, and of which he has served as president.  He has served as 
vice-president of the Pennsylvania State Medical Society.  Dr. Hayes is the 
author of the "Medical History of Centre County."  He stands deservedly high in 
his profession.  As a citizen he has contributed substantially to the interests 
of his adopted city in the erection of elegant dwellings.  He has served in 
various positions; has been director of the First National Bank, and of the 
Bellefonte Building and Loan Association.
  Dr. Hayes, on December 28, 1871, was married to Miss Sarah B., daughter of 
Hon. H.N. McAllister (deceased), formerly of Bellefonte.  Adhering to the faith 
of his ancestors for many generations back, he is a member of the Presbyterian 
Church, active and zealous for its prosperity.