John "Edwald" Hayes, Mount Rushmore National Memorial, 2016.

Date unknown. Hayes, known by the name 'Ed', worked at Mount Rushmore for 54 months from 1935 to 1941. As money and weather allowed, the carving years employees worked whenever they could. Hayes could attest to the fact that sometimes the working season was only 4 months long and at other times the season was much longer. A handful of workers, including Hayes, worked through many winters. He began as a truck driver, earning 0.55 cents per hour in 1935, becoming the blacksmith's helper in 1936 and hoist engineer from 1937-1941. He shuttled the sculptor, Gutzon Borglum, to the top of the sculpture many times a day to make corrections, give instructions to workers or sculp definining characteristics into the faces.