Charles Trumbull Hayden (April 4, 1825February 5, 1900) was an
American businessman and probate judge. His influence was felt in the development of
Arizona Territory where he helped found both the city of
Tempe and
Arizona State University. Hayden is also known as the father of
U.S. Senator Carl Hayden
Carl Trumbull Hayden (October 2, 1877 – January 25, 1972) was an American politician. Representing Arizona in the United States Senate from 1927 to 1969, he was the first U.S. Senator to serve seven terms. Serving as the state's first Represe ...
.
Life and career
Hayden was born on April 4, 1825, in the village of Haydens in
Windsor
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,
Hartford County
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,
Connecticut
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, the son of Joseph and Mary Hanks Hayden. He was a descendant of English settlers who arrived in 1630 and settled in the
Connecticut River valley. Hayden's father died when he was six, leaving himself and his sister Anna to help his mother run the family farm. He completed his education at 16 and worked as a clerk for several years before leaving home in 1843. His departure was motivated in part by a lung ailment.
From Connecticut, Hayden went to New York City, where he studied law, before beginning a series of teaching jobs in Kentucky, Indiana, and Missouri. While in Kentucky, Hayden was influenced by
Henry Clay's vision of opening the West to settlement by the development of roads and canals. By 1847, he was working as a
teamster
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Origi ...
hauling freight on the
Santa Fe Trail.
Following ratification of the
Gadsden Purchase, Hayden established a store in
Tubac
Tubac is a census-designated place (CDP) in Santa Cruz County, Arizona, United States. The population was 1,191 at the 2010 census. The place name "Tubac" is an English borrowing from a Hispanicized form of the O'odham name ''Cuwak'', which tr ...
which served the nearby mines. By 1860, he had moved to
Tucson
, "(at the) base of the black ill
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and according to census records had assets worth
US$
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20,000. In addition to working as a merchant, Hayden also worked as a freighter and civic leader. With the creation of
Arizona Territory, he added mail contractor to his list of duties. Finally, he was appointed a
probate judge
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by
Governor Goodwin and he achieved the title "judge".
Hayden remained in Tucson until 1873 when he moved to the
Salt River valley. Local legend claims that while he was on a business trip from Tucson to Prescott, flood waters on the Salt River delayed him near the present location of
Tempe, Arizona
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, for several days. Using this time to explore the site, Hayden saw the potential to develop a new town at the site. In December 1870, Hayden published a notice claiming two
sections along the south side of the Salt River "for milling, farming, and other purposes". He used the land to build a
cable ferry
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,
grist mill
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,
general store, and other related businesses.
On October 4, 1876, at the age of 51, Hayden married
Arkansas
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-born schoolteacher
Sallie Calvert Davis in
Nevada City, California
Nevada City (originally, ''Ustumah'', a Nisenan village; later, Nevada, Deer Creek Dry Diggins, and Caldwell's Upper Store) is the county seat of Nevada County, California, United States, northeast of Sacramento, southwest of Reno and northea ...
. The couple would have four children,
Carl Trumbull, Sallie Davis, Anna Spenser, and Mary "Mapes" Calvert. Anna died when two-and-a-half years old while the three other children reached maturity.
Politically, Hayden made an unsuccessful run to be
Arizona Territory's Congressional Delegate in 1874. This was followed in 1884 when
Grover Cleveland
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considered him for
Governor of Arizona Territory
The governor of Arizona is the head of government of the U.S. state of Arizona. As the top elected official, the governor is the head of the executive branch of the Arizona state government and is charged with faithfully executing state laws. The ...
. In 1885, Hayden succeeded in having a former employee, John S. Armstrong, elected to the
13th Arizona Territorial Legislature
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. Believing the territory's need lie primarily in educating new teachers, Hayden used his connection with Armstrong to lobby for the Territorial Normal School. Hayden even favored the normal school over the fiscally more lucrative
insane asylum
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The fall of the lunatic asylum and its eventual replacement by modern psychiatric hospitals explains the rise of organized, institutional psychiatry ...
, arguing "
Stockton, California, was known to most people only as the place where insane people are confined" and that Tempe should not risk gaining a similar reputation. The normal school established in Tempe is now
Arizona State University.
Hayden remained in Tempe for the rest of his life and died on February 5, 1900. He is buried in Tempe's
Double Butte Cemetery
The Double Butte Cemetery is the official name given to a historic cemetery in Tempe, Arizona. The cemetery was founded in 1888 on the baseline of the Double Butte Mountain for which it is named. It is the final resting place of various notable pi ...
.
Mount Hayden in the
Grand Canyon is named after him.
Hayden's House and Mill
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References
External links
Charles Trumbull Haydenby Tempe Historical Society
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1825 births
1900 deaths
American people of English descent
Arizona pioneers
Arizona Territory judges
Politicians from Tempe, Arizona
Probate court judges in the United States
19th-century American businesspeople
People from Hartford, Connecticut
19th-century American judges