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THOMAS HAYES, proprietor of the Hayes Bottling Works of Sedalia, located at No. 310 West Main Street, conducts a very extensive business with marked ability, and is rapidly acquiring a fortune, the products of his plant having an extensive sale in the city and surrounding territory, comprising the district bounded by Index, California, Fairfield and Higginsville. In order to supply his customers, Mr. Hayes employs from twelve to fifteen men, and from his works turns out about five hundred cases a day. He manufactures various kinds of soda and mineral waters, cider, etc., and has the contract for charging all of the soda-water fountains in the place.

Mr. Hayes was born in St. Louis, Mo., February 7, 1857, his parents, Patrick and Bridget (Whalen) Hayes, then being residents of that city. The former was born in Ireland and came to the United States in his early youth. At first he took up his abode in New Orleans, but later went to St. Louis, where he was employed by a wholesale house as teamster until shortly before his death, which occurred when he was about forty-five years of age. His wife was born and reared in New Orleans, in which city she was married. She became the mother of five children, of whom our subject is the eldest, and her demise also occurred in St. Louis.

Left an orphan when he was but thirteen years of age, Mr. Hayes was compelled to earn his own livelihood at a time when it would have been to his future benefit had he been able to attend school. He obtained a position in a bottling works, where he learned every feature of the business, and was also employed in several of the principal factories in St. Louis. For some years he was with Hayes & Co. in their bottling works at No. 713 Park Avenue, and later was with the St. Louis Bottling Company, on Jefferson Avenue and Montgomery Street. March 26, 1887, he came to Sedalia, when the Queen City Bottling Company was organized, and subsequently bought out the Sedalia Bottling Company, consolidating the two concerns and changing the style to the T. Hayes Bottling Works. The plant occupies a space of 22x120 feet in dimensions and has modern equipments and machinery. In 1892 Mr. Hayes started a bottling works in Warrensburg, which he ran for only a year.

Our subject was married in St Louis in 1876 to Miss Mary Linderman, who was born in Germany. They have become the parents of one child, a daughter, Lizzie, who is a very bright and promising student in the public schools. In his political belief Mr. Hayes is an unswerving Democrat.