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Oral history interview with Charles Lewis Hayward
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- 1979-12-05 (Creation)
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2 Audiocassette (1 hr. 24 min., 33 sec.) + Transcript (34 pp)
online resource (3 audio files (1 hr. 24 min., 33 sec.) + Transcript (1 PDF file)
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Charles L. Hayward was born in Holyoke, Massachusetts, in 1895. He studied chemical engineering at Columbia University, but changed his major to electrical engineering. His studies were interrupted by World War I, during which he served in the U.S. Army 13th Balloon Corps in France. After his discharge, he completed his degree at Columbia. He worked for many years as a manufacturer of time switches and later of self-starting motors for clocks, known as Telechron motors. He also served as chair for Minnesota congressman Walter Judd's campaign committee, and as chair of the Republican Party in Minnesota's fifth ward. In 1923, he and Grace Parsons were married; they soon divorced, but Hayward maintained a lifelong relationship with her son. At the age of 80, he and Ruth Bailey were married. Hayward settled in Portland, Oregon, late in his life. He died in 1998.
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Charles Lewis Hayward discusses his experiences in World War I, including military balloon reconnaissance.
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Creative Commons - Attribution, Non-Commercial, ShareAlike (BY-NC-SA) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
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- English
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Oral history interviews with Charles Lewis Hayward, 1979 December 5, SR 9580, Oregon Historical Society Research Library.