Hawkins, Benjamin
soldier, congressman, United States senator, author, was born Aug. 15, 1754, in Warren county, N. C. During 1781-84 and 1786-87 he was a delegate in congress, and served during 1789-95 as a United States senator from North Carolina. He was then appointed agent for superintending of all the Indians south of the Ohio, retaining that office from 1796 until his death. He was the author of Topography; and Indian Character. He died June 6, 1816, in Hawkinsville, Ga. HAWKINS, BENJAMIN WATER- HOUSE, anatomist, author, was born in 1807 in England. He was an English anatomist who removed to the United States in 1868, and the author of Popular Comparative Anatomy; Elements of Form; Comparative View of the Human and Animal Frame; Artistic Anatomy of the Horse; Artistic Anatomy of Cattle and Sheep; Artistic Anatomy of the Dog and Deer; and Atlas of Comparative Osteology. He died in 1889.