Rutherford B. Hayes was a well-educated and highly successful lawyer and family man who was wounded several times during his valiant service in the front lines of the Civil War. He rose from the House of Representatives to the governorship of his native Ohio before being chosen as a compromise candidate at the 1876 Republican Convention. Limping into the presidency after a hotly-disputed general election victory, Hayes was faced with the task of restoring confidence in a Union exhausted by Reconstruction and a Republican party mired in corruption.
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W.G. Leroy’s Artificial Limbs – Quad-City Times (Davenport, IA) – May 12, 1879 |
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Pharmacist L. Hanaford’s Poisons – Middlebury Register (Middlebury, VT) – June 4, 1880 |
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Stud horse General Havelock – Express and Standard (Newport, VT) – May 29 1877 |
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Clarence Maitland seeks country girl – Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL) – December 26, 1880 |
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L.H. Grover seeks business partner/wife – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (Pittsburgh, PA) – August 23, 1880 |
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Henry Blaine seeks an unlimited number of lady correspondents – New York Daily Herald (New York, NY) – November 30, 1879 |
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J.H. Hines & Company Cigar Factory – The Standard (Abingdon, VA) – August 8, 1878 |
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N.F. Moyer’s Shoe Store – Delaware County Daily Times (Chester, PA) – January 6, 1877 |
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Reward for chicken thief – Delaware County Daily Times (Chester, PA) – August 15, 1877 |