HAYS-George C. - Fountain County INGenWeb Project

George C. Hays, physician, Hillsboro. The subject of this short memoir was born in Darke county, Ohio, January 22, 1836, his parents being Samuel U. and Linda Mira (Collins) Hays; the former a native of Ohio, and the latter of New Jersey. When the doctor was five weeks old his parents removed by wagon to Montgomery county, Indiana, and shortly afterward his father purchased a farm in the southwest corner of Tippecanoe county, where by simply climbing a fence one could step into either Fountain or Montgomery county. Here Mr. Hays spent his youth on the paternal farm and acquired his early education at one of the pioneer log school-houses, and later by his own study and research, while following the occupation of teacher, he obtained a more thorough education. In 1862 he began reading medicine, and pursued this study until he entered the army, enlisting in the 154th Ind. Reg., with which he served as second lieutenant until the close of the war. On returning home he again tookup his studies and continued them until 1867, when he took a full course of lectures at the University of Michigan, at Ann Arbor. In 1868 he removed to Hillsboro, where he began, and has built up an extensive and constantly increasing practice. In 1878 he graduated at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, which was shortly afterward dissolved and afterward reestablished as the Medical College of Indiana. He holds a diploma from the latter university also. He married, in Cain township, in November 1868, Miss Mary A., daughter of William and Pauliene Rivers, early settlers in this part of the county. He has one child, a daughter, named Vonia V. The doctor is a prominent member of the I.O.O.F., and is politically a democrat, in which party he is one of the most prominent and leading spirits.