M. C. Haywood

Millard C. Haywood (Saline, Michigan, 31 August 1853 – 1911) was an American painter. When he was about six years old, his parents moved to Kansas, locating near Topeka. He received a good common school education, graduating at the High School of Vassar, Michigan. He then studied painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts at Philadelphia. He returned to Topeka in 1881 and began painting and selling portraits and landscapes.

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