Dr. John E. Hays, P. O., Blackburn; son of Dr. John B. and Alice (Chase) Hays, the former of Kentucky, and the later of New Hampshire, was born in West Ely, Marion county, Missouri, July 27, 1856, and lived there until ten years of age, and then moved with his parents to Monroe City, and entered the Monroe City Institute, preparatory to entering college, and in 1872 went to Westminster College, Fulton, Missouri, for two years, when his father died. ...