Biography of R. E. Hayes
R. E. Hayes, senior member of Hayes & Black, a firm dealing in grain and agricultural implements in Pollock, Campbell County, was born on December 24, 1862, in Erie County, Pennsylvania. He was educated in Pennsylvania’s public schools and moved to South Dakota in 1882 to join his uncle, J. L. Thompson. After various business ventures in Vanderbilt and North Dakota, Hayes assisted in a trading business at the Cheyenne Indian Agency. In 1901, he relocated to Pollock, where he and his partner, David Black, established a successful grain and agricultural implement business, earning widespread respect in the community.