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Hawkins, William George

clergyman, lecturer, author, was born Oct. 23, 1823, in Baltimore, Md. He attended the Western university of Middletown, Conn., and the Theological seminary of Virginia. During 1852-57 he was rector of the Church of the Messiah, at Glens Falls, N. Y., where he built a stone church, and in 1858-59 he was rector of St. John's church of Pequi, Pa. He has since filled pastorates in various states of the Union, and is now a missionary of the episcopal church in western Nebraska. He has traveled extensively in Europe, and lectured on agriculture in America and in England. He is the author of the Life of J. H. Hawkins, his father, a noted temperance reformer; Lunsford Lane; and History of the New York Freedmen's Association. HAWKS, MRS. ANNIE SHERWOOD, poet, hymn-writer, was born May 28, 1835, in Hoosick, N. Y. She is most widely known as the author of the well-known hymn, I Need Thee Every Hour.