BARON HAY

Barron Hay was born in Bradford, Vt.. September 26, 1828, and lived here till ten years of age, when he went to Orford, N. H., and lived with Levi D. Corliss, Esq., working on the farm summers and attending district school three months each winter, for seven years, when he returned to Bradford, where he has since remained, with the exception of the autumn of 1850 and the next winter, which he spent in Boston as porter in a hotel. In November, 1851, he entered the store of George and Edward Prichard as clerk, and at this writing has been in the same store ever since, a period of twenty-three consecutive years, the last five, however, as partner with John B. W. Prichard, under the style of Prichard & Hay.

On the 16th of October, 1854, Mr. Hay married Miss Janette C. Smith, youngest daughter of Levi and Almira A. Smith, of Middlebury, Vt., where she was born September 6, 1830. They have two sons, Fred E., born August 14, 1855, and John Barron, born May 4, 1861.  Mrs. Hay, and her husband's mother, who lives with them, are highly esteemed members of the Congregational church in this place. Mr. Barron Hay, in addition to the honor of being considered a capable and upright man in his mercantile transactions, has been called once and again to represent his native town State in the Legislature namely, in the sessions of 1866 and 67.  Biographie Index

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