Samuel Lewis Hays
Built this home in 1837 on a 1000-acre tract, and laid out the town of Glenville in 1845. As a member of the Virginia Assembly, he urged the building of the Parkersburg-Staunton Turnpike. As a Congressman, in 1842, Hays appointed Thomas Jonathan (Stonewall) Jackson as a cadet to West Point. President Buchanan named Hays as Receiver of Public Moneys, 1857–60, Sauk Rapids, Minn. Died, 1871, and was buried there.
Marker is at the intersection of North Lewis Street (U.S. 33) and Factory Road (West Virginia Route 5), on the right when traveling east on North Lewis Street.
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