Hay, Eugene Gano, 1853-1933

Eugene Gano Hay was born in Charlestown, Indiana, on March 26, 1853, the son of Andrew Jennings Hay and Rebecca Garrett. He was admitted to the bar in 1877 and practiced law in Madison, Indiana, from 1877-1880. From 1880-1884, Hay worked as a prosecuting attorney in Jefferson County and Switzerland County, Indiana, and in 1885 he moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota, where he served as the United States Attorney for the District of Minnesota from 1890-1894. In 1903, he was appointed to the Board of General Appraisers for New York City, a position he held until his retirement in 1923. Hay was active in the Republican Party, and served as a delegate to the Republican National Convention of 1884 and as a member of the Minnesota legislature in 1889. On November 4, 1891, he married Eleanora Mary Farquhar of Indianapolis, Indiana. Eugene Gano Hay died on February 21, 1933.

From the guide to the Eugene Gano Hay correspondence, Hay, Eugene Gano correspondence, 1889-1896, 1889-1892, (William L. Clements Library, University of Michigan)

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