Will County ILGenWeb Biographies..... ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. ************************************************ File contributed for use by: Dori Leekly & Margie Glenn Author: History of Will County, Illinois; Chicago: Wm LeBaron Jr & Co, 186 Dearborn Street, 1878. C. B. HAYWARD, publisher and proprietor of the Joliet Daily and Weekly Sun, Joliet; was born in Fairfield, Franklin County, Ind., July 1, 1844; at the age of ten years he entered the office of the Locomotive, in Indianapolis, completing his trade with Cameron & MCNEELY, book and job printers. In 1860, he went to Carthage, Mo., where, with his brother, he engaged in publishing The Southwest. On the breaking-out of the war, their office was captured by the rebels, and taken into Arkansas. Mr. HAYWARD made his way to Fort Scott, Kansas, and purchased the Fort Scott BuIletin, and a year and a half later took a partner and founded the Fort Scott Union Monitor, now one of the leading papers of Kansas, which he continued to publish about a year and a half. In the mean time, he was appointed U. S. Assessor for that division, and served about a year and a half. He then came to Marseilles, IL, where he resided one year, and from that place to Joliet, and had charge of the Joliet Republican office about a year and three months. In 1872, he established the Joliet Sun. He has built up an extensive job-printing business, and a large and healthy circulation among the best people of the county. The Daily Sun is the oldest and largest daily published in the Seventh Congressional District. Mr. HAYWARD was married in April 1872, to Miss Mary E. MONROE, daughter of George MONROE, of Joliet, and has three children - Josephine, George E. and Thomas.