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Hawkins, Dexter Arnold – Hawley, Charles

Hawkins, Dexter Arnold

lawyer, author, was born June 23, 1825, in Camden, Maine. He was a lawyer of New York city, an advocate of protection and similar political measures, and the author of Traditions of Overlook Mountain; Free Trade and Protection; and The Roman Catholic Church in New York City. He died July 24, 1886, in New York city.

Hawkins, George S

congressman, was born in New York. He was elected a representative to the thirty-fifth and thirty-sixth congresses from Florida. He was also a member of the select committee of thirty-three on the rebellious states; and was a delegate to the Philadelphia national union convention of 1866.

Hawkins, John P

soldier, was born about 1830. At the beginning of the civil war he was brigade quartermaster in the defences of Washington, D. C. For his services in the war he was successively given the brevets of lieutenant-colonel, colonel, brigadier-general, and major-general in the United States army; and also major-general of volunteers.

Hawkins, Joseph

congressman. He was a representative in congress from New York from 1829 to 1851.

Hawkins, Joseph H

congressman.

He was a member of the Kentucky legislature from 1810 to 1813, and speaker of that body in 1812 and 1813. He was a representative in congress from that state in 1814 and 1815.

Hawkins, Philemon

soldier, statesman, was born Sept. 28, 1717, in Gloucester county, Va. He raised the first volunteer company in Bute county for the revolutionary army, and was elected its colonel in 1776. He was a member of the convention that ratified the national constitution, and was the last surviving signer of the state constitution of North Carolina. He died in 1801 in Warren county, N. C.

Hawkins, Samuel Hugh

lawyer, financier, was born Jan. 10, 1835, in Jones county, Ga. He is most noted as the originator, builder and president of the Savannah, Americus and Montgomery railway, which is now known as the Georgia and Alabama railway.

Hawkins, William

governor, was born in 1770 in Warren county, N. C.

He was elected a member of the assembly in 1805 and was speaker. He took an active part in the war of 1812, and was governor of North Carolina from 1811 to 1814. He died May 17, 1819, in Sparta, Ga.

Hawkins, William D. C

lawyer, was born Sept. 17, 1838, in Tennessee.

He received his education at the college of Monticello, Ark., and has attained prominence as an able lawyer of the Indian territory, where he has a lucrative practice in Ryan, and takes a prominent part in the public affairs of that territory.

Hawks, Cicero Stephens

bishop, author, was born May 26, 1812, in New Berne, N. C. In 1844 he was consecrated protestant episcopal bishop of Missouri.

He contributed to various journals, edited the Boys' and Girls' Library; and was the author of Friday Christian. died April 19, 1868, in St. Louis, Mo. and He

Hawley, Bostwick

clergyman, author, was born April 8, 1814, in Onondaga county, N. Y. He has attained eminence as a clergyman in the methodist episcopal church, but has now retired from active service. He is the author of Manual of Methodism; Beauties of Herbert; Shield of Faith; and various other works.

Hawley, Charles

clergyman, author, was born Aug. 19, 1819, in Catskill, N. Y. He was a presbyterian clergyman of Auburn, N. Y., and the author of Early Chapters of Cayuga History; Sanitary Reforms; Memorial Discourses; and Early Chapters of Seneca History. He died Nov. 26, 1885, in Auburn, N. Y.