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HAY, L.P.,   farmer, P. 0. Fairfield, was born November 22, 1823, in White County, 111. He is a son of John Hay, born 1776 in Allegheny County, Penn.. where he farmed. About 1817, he located in White County, IL, on Little Prairie, near the Grand Chain, , and then removed to Big Prairie, where our subject was born. Here he farmed, and in partnership with his uncle Lowry, put up a distillery, which he operated for a number of years, he doing the main buying and selling, and flat-boating the produce (whisky and pork) South on the Wabash, and then to New Orleans, an occupation he had followed several years during the war of 1812, and after. The number of porkers killed and shipped by them would amount to from 500 to 1,000 in one year. John Hay died 1836. His father, John Hay, Sr, was a native of Virginia, where he farmed. He died in Pennsylvania. His father, or the great-grandfather of our subject, was Alexander Hay, a native of Scotland; he died in Virginia. The mother of our subject was Hannah (Webster) Hay, born in Virginia; she died 1856 in White County, Ill. She was a daughter of Henry and Lucretia Preston Webster, natives of Virginia. She had ten children, of whom two are now living, viz.: Hon. Lowry Hay, former Sheriff of this county, and once a Representative of White County, Ill., and Lawrence P., our subject, who was educated in White County, Ill., in the old fashioned subscription schools.