. From the manuscript of 'Life and History of Warren Eugene McCord' written in 1908/9 (pages 16 - 27)
 

  Anthony Judson Hayward was born in the city of Pittsburgh, on the 17th of March, in the year 1835, and because of the age of his mother (who was a woman of great activity and determination, and from whom he inherited these excellent qualities) he was adopted into the McCord family. He was from his birth a somewhat willful, active and energetic boy, quite nervous and hard to control, though very affectionate and amiable to kind treatment, but needing a strong firm hand to keep him in his proper place, and in the strong will power and determined makeup of his father McCord, and in the tender loving care of mother McCord, he fortunately fell into just the proper hands to make a man of him.

  His father McCord's family living in the woods and far from any public school at the time of his adoption he had very little chance to go to school, although he went several terms to the academy at Richburg, but not being of a very studious nature he was destined not to benefit to any great extent by book instruction, but to get his education in the world of experience. He was a very apt scholar in Nature's school, and picked up ideas readily, and from his father McCord, whom he greatly admired, he absorbed all the details and learned to manage the sawmill and logging business, and father McCord use to tell with pride, that Jud, and Elisha and Darwin Sparks were the smartest boys in that entire country to work, but that Jud had the brains and more good common sense than all the others put together, and would someday be a rich man. He had many escapades as a boy and young man, and had he been as liberally supplied with money as are many young men, he would no doubt have come to some bad end, but the hardship of poverty, together with the ruling hand and determined manner of his benefactor, solved the problem in this case and made him a successful man.

  When the family moved West, Mr. Hayward, then a boy of 19 years, took a job of putting in logs for a company, and borrowed his uncle's oxen (he being a farmer and having nothing for his teams to do through the winter season) but as it was a poor winter he managed only to save money enough from his winter's work (lacking ten schillings which he had borrowed from a friends) to buy his ticket for the West, and in the Fall of 1855 he went West to Wisconsin to where his father's family had moved.  This first winter he worked out by the month in the logging woods, and in the spring, when the rivers broke up, he hired out to go upon the drives and worked all summer long, helping to run logs up and down the river and raft them out, and when he was discharged in the fall, his employer did not have any money to pay him for his summer's work, so he started for home on foot, and without a penny in his pocket. He had a fairly good looking suit of clothes, but a very poor looking hat, and while going along the road he found a dollar gold piece in the road and soon after met a man wearing a pretty good looking hat and traded off his old hat to the man and gave him the dollar gold piece to boot. Later on that fall he and his father McCord went down to where the man lived for whom Mr. Hayward had worked all summer, and all they could get out of him was a pair of oxen, which they drove home with them, and with this yoke of oxen they did some work about town and worked them in the woods that winter hauling in logs from father McCord's homestead claim, and these logs they had sold for $5.00 per thousand feet, but when they had delivered them, this being 1857, the good old Democratic free-trade times had brought on another spell of hard times, the man was only able to take one-half of them, this giving them enough to pay off their hired help, and the balance of the logs they sold for $2.50 per thousand feet and had to take the pay for them out of his store.

  That fall Mr. Hayward took up a pre-emption timber claim, which was somewhat similar to our stone and timber claims now, inasmuch as it required residence, but there was nothing to pay for them, whereas for the timber claims now we have to pay $2.50 per acre. The logs from this claim he and his father sold to be delivered to parties in Fond du Lac (Wisconsin) for $2.50 per thousand feet, and even at this price, by putting in their own time, and working hard on that winter's work, they made some money.

  The next winter Mr. Hayward worked for himself and in the spring we was elected treasurer of the new town of Shawno, which office he held for two successive terms, and gave good satisfaction.

  In the spring of 1861 the Town Board laid out a road from Shawno to Green Bay, some 38 miles on a direct line through the unbroken wilderness, and hired Mr. Hayward to take charge of this work, and build the road for them, which he did. Along the line of this new road about 19 miles out from the Village of Shawno, was a very fine tract of white pine timber all vacant government land, on which Mr. Hayward kept his eye, and two years later when it had been surveyed, he took his blanket on winter day and went out as far as this timber on the stage coach, which then ran from Shawno to Green Bay. When he got to this land it was snowing some, and nearly dark, and almost before he could gather up stuff and start a fire, the wolves began to howl around him, and although he was all alone he camped out and gave the timber a close examination, and then returned to town and got one, Marshall Morse, who was a storekeeper in a small way in Shawno, and had some money, to go in with him and buy up the timber. They got it at the government price of $1.25 per acre.

  Mr. Hayward, had, the previous summer, become engaged to be married to a young lady in Oshkosh, and the wedding day had been set. As soon as he secured this timber, Jud in company with one Welcome Hyde from Appleton who was a partner with Henry Hewitt, Jr., in many of his timber deals, and said to be the best woodsmen then in the State of Wisconsin - went up on the headwaters of the Wolf River, and from there crossed over into Marquette County, Michigan, to look over a large tract of Government land, which Hyde said he would get parties to enter for them on the halves, and they would thus make a big lot of money, if they could get the minutes, that is, get the estimates showing who much timber the lands contained. They employed Indians to go with them to do the packing and carry the heavy part of their outfits with dogs and sledges, and the trip became so hard on account of deep snow that all the Indians deserted them, and they has so very little to eat that Mr. Hyde completely gave out, and only by Mr. Hayward's help did he manage to get out of the woods alive, and it was Hyde, who begged Hayward to save himself and leave him behind as he did not think that both could get out alive, but Jud stuck by him, for who ever knew him to desert a friend under any circumstances, and they finally came to an Indian encampment where Jud left Hyde to recuperate, and he went on home to be in tine for the wedding day, as the time was very short, and he knew his fiancée and her people would be worrying about his absence. On this trip it was Greek meet Greek, for Mr. Hyde has told the writer that Jud Hayward was the first and only man who ever did him up on a woods trip, and that he had the greatest will-power and the most grit of any man he had ever met before or since.

  Jud was married on May 31, 1866, to Martha Elizabeth Bowron, daughter of Joseph Bowron, a well-to-do and much respected farmer in Oshkosh, Wisconsin.

  In the summer of 1866 Mr. Hayward and Mr. Morse built a sawmill to manufacture timber they had acquired on the road from Shawno to Green Bay, which Mr. Hayward operated the until the following spring, when he sold his interest and moved to Manistee, Michigan, and in the company with Russell & Leach of Oshkosh, built another sawmill, which the following year they sold out to some Chicago parties, and Mr. Hayward moved back again to the city of Oshkosh.

  In 1869 there was to be a Government sale of lands on the Chippewa River, and Mr. Hayward spent time during the winter of 1868 and 1869 and the summer up until the time of the sale, looking over this timber, and when the sale came one, in company with the Honorable Philetus Sawyer, he bought a large tract of this timber, and in the spring he went to Winona on the Mississippi River and erected a sawmill with which to manufacture this timber into lumber. This mill he operated until the summer of 1874, when he sold it out to one Bennett. During the summer of 1874 he went up on the St. Louis River above Duluth, and cruised for Government timberlands, but as it was too early yet to begin to operate in the new territory he came back to the Chippewa River and in company with his younger brother Warren E. McCord (the writer), formed a co-partnership for the purpose of doing a general logging and land business on the Chippewa River, and its tributaries, and he moved his family to Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, and built a very fine home there, where he resided until he moved to the new town of Hayward. They followed this business until the summer of 1880, when he sold out his interest to Laird-Norton Company, and went over onto the Namakagon River, a tributary of the St. Croix, and built a small sawmill, and later organized he North Wisconsin Lumber Company, with Laird-Norton Company, R.L. McCormick and F. Weyerhaeuser. Mr. Hayward then got the state to organize a new county, and gave it the name of Sawyer, after the Honorable Philetus Sawyer, then U.S. Senator, with one township organization, which he had named Hayward, and located the county seat of said county at a place which he had picked out for his town site, and where they afterward built their new mills and town, which became so well and favorably known all through the Middle West.

  In 1884 iron, in paying quantities, was found was to exist on the Gogebic Range, East of the town of Ashland, in Wisconsin, and also on the Mesabi Range north of Duluth, in Minnesota, and Mr. Hayward was largely interested in both of these places. He organized mining companies and opened up large iron mines on the Gogebic Range in the northern peninsula of Michigan, known as the Nimicon, Cokogon, Ironton and Palms. He was offered $250,000 for his stock in one of these, and could probably have sold his entire interest at one time during the great boom of the iron mines for $1,250,000, but like almost all the other holders of iron mining stock, still held for a higher price until the boom went down, and save only about $10,000 that he got of his stock in the Palms mine, did not clean up very much money.

  In 1887 he sold out his interest in the North Wisconsin Lumber Company to Mr. Weyerhaeuser, and in 1890 after the boom had flattened out the iron mines, he moved with is family to Tacoma, Washington. Here he organized a state bank with a capital stock of $250,000 most of the stockholders being eastern men and old acquaintances of Mr. Hayward's, and business associates. He then began to buy up timber for account of himself and Mr. William Bradley of Wisconsin, who had arranged to furnish money for Mr. Hayward with which to buy timberlands on shares, Mr. Hayward one-fourth and Mr. Bradley three-fourths interest.

  Mr. Hayward had gotten a young man out from Milwaukee, Wisconsin to act as cashier of the bank he had started in Tacoma, and while Mr. Hayward was in the East cleaning up some business matters, this young man made some poor loans, and when Mr. Hayward came back, and checked up on his work, and found how matters stood, it worked so on the young man's mind that he went out and committed suicide by cutting his own throat. Mr. Hayward then put his son-in-law Mr. Alfred Eastman, in as cashier, and they then ran along until they could get things I shape, and then liquidated and every depositor got his money back in full, and the stockholders got back 67% of their money, and as they were all well-to-do people it did them no very great harm, and no blame was ever attached to Mr. Hayward in connection with the matter. About this same time he organized a bank at Everett, Washington, of which he was President. This was a National Bank. He also got a young man from Milwaukee to act as cashier, and he made so many poor loans and at just this time (1893), the time when the good old Democratic free-trade or hard times came on to the country again; that they deeded it advisable to close the bank, but it paid back dollar for dollar to both depositors and stockholders.

  The hard time of 1893 affected the coast states more disastrously than it did the East, and values in all lines of business shrank to more than one-half their original worth and as Mr. Hayward had invested largely in all kinds of property along the coast, it caught him as well as almost everybody doing any kind of business, and made it a very hard struggle for him to keep his head above the currents for a long term of years, and not until about 1900 did get begin to get on his feet, as it were, and again to feel less worried as to the future welfare of himself and his family.

  In the summer and fall of 1889 he organized a party, purchased a small steamboat and outfit of provisions and started for the Klondike in the northern part of Alaska where gold had been discovered, and everybody who could get there was going in search of gold. Mr. Hayward's party went too far north, in fact clear up to the Saskatchewan coast and there became frozen in for a long time, during which time Mr. Hayward was taken ill scurvy, brought on by living on too much salt and not enough vegetables, and they were all compelled to depend on the Esquimoux for food for some time, and he would have died had it not been for one moan who stuck by him, and brought him home, where he finally recovered his health and was as robust as ever again, but he had not regained the money that it had cost him to make this trip, still he got a lot of experience out of it, which he contented himself with as well as he could, and no one ever heard him do any great amount of kicking about it.

  He then in the company of Henry Hewitt, Jr. and others organized a mining company and opened a copper mine near the British line, and his son-in-law is now manager of that and is doing fairly well at it, and Mr. Hayward's stock is bringing him in about $4,000 a year.
  He next organized an iron mine and is a stockholder and director in that, and getting a fair income from it. He then reorganized a clay pipe works down at Little Falls, Washington, with R.L. McCormick and Henry Hewitt, Jr. and others, and is president of that company, and this is also paying something now.

  He also has timber holdings with the Bradley estate, of which his quarter interest is worth $150,000 and becoming more valuable all the while, and has some individual holding of timber under laid with coal which is worth something like $50,000, besides a water power that is liable to be quite valuable in time to come. He has a very fine house and large plat of ground at the head of one of the principle streets in the city of Tacoma, and some other small lots of property scattered about, so that he is probably worth in the neighborhood of $250,000 and although a man now nearly of 74 he is still hale and hearty and capable of living many years yet to enjoy, with reflection, the happy consequent upon a well spent life. He leaves the greater part of his business matters to his son Myron (named for his brother, Myron McCord, who Mr. Hayward thought as much of and admired greatly as any person in the world) who is a very steady, capable, honest and upright young man, doing, with the help of his father, a large business in buying and selling logs, lumber, cedar poles, fence posts and boom stuff, and also to his son-in-law Mr. Alfred Eastman, another capable and honest man.

  Of Mr. Hayward's achievements his friends and relatives may well feel proud. He is a prominent Free Mason, having taken all the degrees from that of 'Entered Apprentice to Noble of the Mystic Shrine, inclusive, and lives up to the teachings of the Order; is a man of high principles, indomitable pluck and well-known fidelity. His integrity has never been questioned, and his business ability has been far above average. He can count his friends by the score and is sincerely loved by all who know him intimately. He had done well by his father's teachings, and has never once brought disgrace upon the name. He has raised a family of three children, all good, honest, well behaved, and has reason to feel very proud of his descendants, as his father before him, to whose memory Mr. Hayward has always given just and deserving praise.
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