HAYES, LUCY WARE (WEBB),
\hˈe͡ɪz], \hˈeɪz], \h_ˈeɪ_z]\
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Married President R.B. Hayes in 1852, was renowned for her sympathetic devotion to the soldiers wounded in the Civil War, and for her efforts, while occupying the White House, to promote the interests of temperance and other good causes.
By John Franklin Jameson
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