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Ward (WILLIAM HAYES an American)

WILLIAM HAYES, an American editor, clergyman, and Assyriologist; born in Abington, Mass., June 25, 1835; was graduated at Amherst (1856); and at Andover Theological Seminary (1859). He was a pastor of the Congregational Church and professor at Ripon College in 1860-1868; became editor of the "Independent" in 1870. In 1884 he went to Babylon in charge of an exploring expedition. He wrote much on Oriental archæology for the "Bibliotheca Sacra," and other journals, and prepared the report of the expedition of 1884, and published "Biog- WARDEN raphy of Sidney Lanier" ier" (1885), "Notes I Believe and Why" (1915). He died in inders of Western Asia" (1910); "What I Believe and Why" (1915). He died in 1916. toelfossi an