Transcription of a manuscript in LancasterHistory Archives.
Biography of Judge Hayes precedes diary.
Alexander Hayes was born in 1793. He graduated, with honors, from Dickinson College in 1812 and became Judge of Lancaster County Courts from 1854 to 1875. He was a Trustee and Vice President of Franklin and Marshall College. He died in 1875
Recollections of the Hon. A. L. Hayes; incidents of his early and long connection with Lancaster Courts; references made to lawyers James Hopkins, James Buchanan, William Jenkins, William Norris, George Porter, Ebenezer Wright, Clark Frazer and others.
Reprinted from the Daily New Era, January 31, 1878.
