Edward Cary Hayes (1868–1928) was a pioneer in American sociology and was a founder and president of the American Sociological Association. Edward Cary Hayes was born on February 10, 1868 in Lewiston, Maine to Professor Benjamin Francis Hayes. He received a bachelor's degree from Bates College and then studied at the Cobb Divinity School. He then became a pastor in Augusta, Maine until 1896 (his views clashed with the congregation) when he became a Dean at Keuka College. In 1899 he enrolled at the University of Chicago to study philosophy but soon began to study sociology. He studied under Albion Small and alongside George Herbert Mead, John Dewey and James Tufts. Hayes then spent a year in Germany at the University of Berlin, where he studied with , Adolph Wagner, Friedrich Paulsen, Alfre