John Russell Hayes

John Russell Hayes was an American poet, born in West Chester, Pennsylvania, in 1866. He studied at Swarthmore, Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania Law School and taught English at Swarthmore College.

His books of verse include The Old-Fashioned Garden, and Other Verses (1895), The Brandywine (1898), a West Chester Centennial Ode (1899) and Swarthmore Idylls (1899).