Excerpt from The Life of Rutherford Birchard Hayes Nineteenth President of the United States, Vol. 1 The Life of Mr. Hayes was to have been written by his most intimate personal and political friend, William Henry Smith. That was Mr. Hayes's hope and Mr. Smith's purpose. Soon after Mr. Hayes's death Mr. Smith began the contemplated work. His plan was to write not a simple biography, but a history to be called T he Life and Times of Hayes. From the...