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William Hays was born on July 19, 1837, in Louisville, Kentucky, United States. His father, Hugh Hays, was born in Pennsylvania, but he went to Louisville in 1832, married Martha Richardson, and became a prosperous manufacturer of farm implements.
William early developed a faculty for music, but he took lessons in the art for only a few weeks, since instructors in music, as in literature, seemed superfluities to him. He none the less, after attending primary school, went successively to three small colleges, one in Hanover, Indiana, one in Clarksville, Tennessee. and one in Georgetown, Kentucky, at the last of which he was listed as a freshman in 1856-1857.
William Hays' first published ballad, Little Ones at Home, appeared in 1856. It proved popular, and it was not long before Hays found work as a reporter on the Louisville Democrat and as amanuensis for George D. Prentice. At about this time, he composed for the delight of a house party the song “Evangeline, ” first writing it, words and music, impromptu, with a charred stick upon a white board fence. During the Civil War, he was in command of a river transport named the Gray Eagle, but he so incensed the Federal general in command at New Orleans that he was thrown into prison. Always he was working at some song or other, or at some poem which might as well have been a song. They were mostly reminiscent and sentimental, descriptive of joys that could never be again, but they were bought, one after another, by thousands. Hays always maintained that it was he who wrote the original words and music for “Dixie, ” but his authorship has been disputed.
During the late sixties and early seventies Hays was a riverman, plying regularly from Pittsburgh to New Orleans. Later he resumed his work with the Louisville Courier-Journal, serving as its marine editor and conducting a daily marine column. He sought not merely to amuse and instruct his readers, but to create public opinion, for it seemed to him most urgently important that the rivers be made more easily navigable. He exerted himself powerfully, and with some effectiveness, to that end. All his life he dabbled in black-face comedy, and in the late eighties a company in Louisville which bore his name advertised as “the Creme de la Creme of Negro minstrelsy. ” He published three booklets, all in Louisville: The Modern Meetin House and Other Poems (1874), Will S. Hays’ Songs and Poems (1886), and Songs and Poems (1895).
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In 1865 Hays was married to Belle McCullough of Louisville.
