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John Coffee "Jack" Hays (January 28, 1817 – April 21, 1883) [1] was an American military officer.A captain in the Texas Rangers and a military officer of the Republic of Texas, Hays served in several armed conflicts from 1836 to 1848, including against the Comanche Empire in Texas and during the Mexican–American War.
John Coffee "Captain Jack" Hays: 1817–1883 Captain in the Texas Rangers; first sheriff of San Francisco (1850) Jack Helm: No image available: 1838–1873 Sheriff, DeWitt County, Texas: James Butler "Wild Bill" Hickok: 1837–1876 Marshal, Abilene, Kansas and Hays City, Kansas: John Henry "Doc" Holliday: 1851–1887
John Hays (sheriff) (1770 – after 1822), first known Jewish resident of Illinois, Sheriff of St. Clair County, Illinois; Indian agent John Coffee Hays (1817–1883), or "Jack" Hays, Texas Ranger, U.S. Army officer, first mayor of Oakland, California
Carpentier was elected to the California state legislature and got the Town of Oakland incorporated on May 4, 1852. By the time the Land Commission got around to confirming the Peraltas' claims in 1854, Oakland was quickly being further developed. The Peraltas in the meantime had been persuaded to sell various parcels of their vast holdings. [6]
The Ranger captain John Coffee Hays began to mobilize the newly reorganized Texas frontier militia companies, recruiting them up to strength to fill the requirements for a mounted regiment. His men were mustered into federal service in June and July 1846 [ 2 ] as the First Regiment of Texas Mounted Rifle Volunteers, a part of Zachary Taylor's ...
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During the Mexican–American War, Terry served in Captain Samuel L. S. Ballowe's company of Colonel John Coffee Hays's First Regiment of Texas Mounted Rifle Volunteers and participated in the Battle of Monterrey. In 1847, he lost the election for district attorney of Galveston, and in 1849 he joined the gold rush to California, where he ...
The Tucson Cutoff was a significant change in the route of the Southern Emigrant Trail.It became generally known after a party of Forty-Niners led by Colonel John Coffee Hays followed a route suggested to him by a Mexican Army officer as a shorter route than Cooke's Wagon Road which passed farther south to cross the mountains to the San Pedro River at Guadalupe Pass.