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Below is a family biography included in the Biographical Review Volume of Biographical Sketches of The Leading Citizens of Hampshire County, Massachusetts published by Biographical Review Publishing Company in 1896.  These biographies are valuable for genealogy research in discovering missing ancestors or filling in the details of a family tree. Family biographies often include far more information than can be found in a census record or obituary.  Details will vary with each biography but will often include the date and place of birth, parent names including mothers' maiden name, name of wife including maiden name, her parents' names, name of children (including spouses if married), former places of residence, occupation details, military service, church and social organization affiliations, and more.  There are often ancestry details included that cannot be found in any other type of genealogical record.

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IRVING B. HAYES, M.D., a well-known and very successful physician of Florence, Mass., was born at Farmington, N.H., March 17, 1862. His father, Benjamin F. Hayes, was born there in 1813, his grandfather, David Hayes, in 1787, the latter having been a son of Joseph Hayes, whose father, Benjamin, was a son of Peter Hayes and a grandson of John Hayes, who emigrated from Scotland, and settled at Dover, N.H., in 1680. David Hayes wedded Eliza Furber, daughter of Richard Furber, and successfully followed agriculture in Strafford County, New Hampshire, where the family have resided for a period of over two hundred years. He raised a family of two sons and four daughters, who grew to maturity, and of whom Dr. Hayes’s father and his sister Deborah, wife of Jonathan Seavey, of Rochester, N.H., are the only survivors. David Hayes died at the age of seventy-two, in the year 1859; and his wife survived him about six years. Mrs. Benjamin F. Hayes, whose name before marriage was Elizabeth Waldron, was born at South Berwick, Me., in 1817, and is still active at the age of seventy-eight years. Her father was the sixth consecutive Richard Waldron, descended from William Waldron, brother of the famous Major Waldron, first President of the once republic of New Hampshire. The original ancestor, who came to America from England in 1634, and was known as Recorder William Waldron, settled at Dover, N.H., then a part of the Colony of Massachusetts, in 1636. The family, numerous members of which have distinguished themselves in different walks of life, have resided in Strafford County, New Hampshire, for many years, occupying a position of wealth and influence. Dr. Hayes’s maternal grandmother was a daughter of Richard Kimball, of New Hampshire. The parents of Dr. Hayes, who were both teachers in early life, were married in the month of December, 1841. They reared five children, three sons and two daughters: Mary A. Hayes married R. G. Hayes, of Dover, and died at the age of twenty-one; David resides at the old homestead, having a wife and one child; Lizzie K. also lives at the home; Dr. J. G. Hayes, of Williamsburg, Mass., has one son.

Irving B. Hayes, the third son, received his primary education in the common schools, and at the age of fourteen began his higher studies under the tuition of his brother and his cousin. At the age of seventeen he entered Dartmouth College, where he was graduated in 1883, when he was twenty-one years old. He followed civil engineering for three years, and then studied medicine at the University of New York, graduating from Long Island College Hospital in 1889. He commenced the practice of his profession in Atlanta, Ga., where, in company with his brother, he resided until 1893, when he came to Florence, where he now has a very large and exceedingly profitable practice. He is a searching investigator into the scientific principles of his useful profession and one of the coming lights of the regular school of medical practice.

On January 29, 1895, Dr. Hayes was most happily wedded to Miss Agnes F. Crier, of Florence, daughter of John and Sarah (Irwin) Crier. Her parents were natives of England, and are now deceased, the father having first passed away. The mother, being left a widow, succeeded in providing her daughter with a good education, which was obtained at the schools of Holyoke and in Boston. Mrs. Crier became well known and highly respected in Florence, where she was actively engaged in church work; and Miss Crier was a very successful music teacher previous to her marriage. Dr. Hayes is a Fellow of the Massachusetts Medical Society of the Hampshire County District and a Master Mason. The pleasant home where he now resides was purchased by him in 1894.

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This family biography is one of the numerous biographies included in the Biographical Review Volume of Biographical Sketches of The Leading Citizens of Hampshire County, Massachusetts published in 1896. 

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