Charles Denison Bayt Jr.

Charles Denison Hayt Jr. was born in Alamosa, Colorado, upon the 26th day of April, 1886. He died in Denver, Colorado, upon September 9, 1917. His father, Charles D. Hayt, was the Judge of the Sixth Judicial District at the time of his son's birth. His mother, Julia Palmer Hayt, was a native of the South, and educated at the Ward School for Girls, Nashville, Tennessee, now known as the Ward-Belmont.

“Chick” Hayt, as he was familiarly known, was educated in the public schools of Denver and graduated from the Colorado University, at Boulder, with a degree of Bachelor of Arts, in 1908. From Boulder he entered the Law Department of the Michigan University at Ann Arbor, and in 1910 received his degree. Returning to Colorado, Mr. Hayt practiced two years in the town of his birth, where his work for the community was recognized by his election as President of the local Chamber of Commerce. While at Alamosa, becoming convinced that Denver promised a wider field for the practice of the profession he had chosen for his lifework, he returned to the capital city. Here, for a time, he was connected with the law office of Hayt, Dawson & Wright, of which his father was the senior member. However, being of an independent nature, he soon thereafter opened an office in Denver for himself.

In addition to a strong love for the law, a good fundamental as well as legal education, he was gifted with accuracy of thinking and of expression, and with patient industry he soon acquired a lucrative and growing practice, which continued until his last ill

ness.

Mr. Hayt was a member of Oriental Lodge No. 87, A. F. & A. M., the Denver Athletic Club, the Country Club, the Colorado Bar Association, the Denver Bar Association, the Phi Delta Phi law fraternity, the Sigma Alpha Epsilon college fraternity, and

numerous other societies. His personality was such that those who knew him loved to associate with him.

A fair index of his influence upon others may be gathered from an excerpt from a letter written since young Hayt's death by a college-mate, now a successful business man in the city of Chicago:

"While he never knew it, because I never told him,

he had an influence for good upon me to such an extent
that I have weighed many important questions that have
come up in my life with, 'I wonder what Chick Hayt
would say to this?" "

He met the final summons unafraid, his greatest regret being that by death he would be deprived of an opportunity of serving his country in its time of peril, and of being helpful to his parents in their declining years.