Hawkins, Benjamin Water- House – Hawley, John B
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.
Hawkins, Charles A
lawyer, legislator, was born Jan. 7, 1859, in York county, Pa. During 1887-92 he was solicitor of city of York, Pa., and in 1895 was elected a member of the Pennsylvania house of representatives.
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, Isaac R
soldier, congressman, was born May 16, 1818, in Maury county, Tenn. He served as a lieutenant in the war with Mexico, and was present at the capture of Vera Cruz.
From 1862 to 1865 he served as an officer in the union army. In 1865 he was commissioned chancellor for the sixth division of Tennessee, and in that year was elected a representative from Tennessee to the thirty-ninth congress. He was reelected to the fortieth and forty-first congresses as a republican.
Hawkins, John Henry Willis
reformer, was born Oct. 23, 1799, in Baltimore, Md. He lectured with success in the temperance cause in every state in the Union except California, also contributing constantly to the temperance press. He died Aug. 26, 1858, in Parkersburg, Pa.
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, Micajah Thomas
congressman, was born in 1790 in Warren county, N. C. He entered public life in 1819 as a member of the house of commons of North Carolina; and was a member of the state senate from 1823 to 1827. He was a representative in congress from North Carolina from 1831 to 1841, and served again in the state senate in 1846.
He was also at one time a general of militia. He died Dec. 22, 1858, in Warren county, N. C.
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, Philemon
soldier, statesman, was born Dec. 3, 1752, in North Carolina. He was a member of the assembly from Bute county before he was of age, and represented the counties of Bute and Granville for thirteen years. In 1776 he was elected colonel of a regiment, and in that capacity performed much service.
He was the last surviving signer of the state constitution of North Carolina. In 1776 he was a member of the convention which ratified the United States constitution. He died Jan. 28, 1833, in Warren county, N. C.
Hawkins, Rush Christopher
soldier, lawyer, author, was born Sept. 14, 1831, in Pomfret, Vt. He is a New York city lawyer who served as a colonel in the federal army during the civil war, and has since been a prominent advocate of political reforms. He has published The First Books and Printers of the. Fifteenth Century.
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.
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.
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
Hawks, Francis Lister
clergyman, author, was born June 10, 1798, in New Berne, N. C. He was a noted episcopal clergyman, rector of churches in New York, New Orleans, and Baltimore.
He was the author of History of North Carolina; Reports of Cases in North Carolina Supreme Court; History of the Episcopal Church in Virginia and Maryland; The Romance of Biography; Cyclopedia of Biography; Egypt and Its Monuments; and Documentary History of the Episcopal Church. He died Sept. 26, 1866, in New York city.
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.
Hawley, Charles L
lawyer, prohibitionist, was born Dec. 8, 1855, in Montrose, Pa. He is a prominent lawyer of Scranton, Pa., was a candidate for auditor-general of Pennsylvania on the prohibition ticket in 1886, and in 1894 was a candidate on the same ticket for governor of Pennsylvania.
Hawley, Cyrus M
lawyer, jurist, was born in New York. He removed to Illinois, and was appointed from that state a justice of the United States court for the territory of Utah, residing at Salt Lake City.
Hawley, Gideon
missionary, was born Nov. 11, 1727, in Bridgeport, Conn.
In 1753 the commissioners of Indian affairs sent him to establish a mission in the Iroquois country, on the Susquehanna river. He remained there teaching and preaching until 1756, when the French war obliged him to return to civilization.
He died Oct. 3, 1807, in Marshpee, Mass.
Hawley, Gideon
educator, author, was born Sept. 26, 1785, in Huntington, Conn. From the organization of the Smithsonian institution, in 1846, until his death, he was one of its four regents-atlarge. He printed for private distribution Essays in Truth and Knowledge. He died July 16, 1870, in Albany, N. Y.
Hawley, James A
educator, financier, was born Aug. 20, 1830, in Webster, N. Y. He has been superintendent of schools of Lee county, Ill., and for twenty-one years was clerk of the same county. He was president of the board of education of Dixon, Ill., and president and cashier of the Dixon National bank.
He is a thirty-three degree Mason, and an active member of the supreme council for the northern jurisdiction of America. He is now the secretary and treasurer of the Dixon Water company..
Hawley, John B
soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born Feb. 9, 1831, in Fairfield county, Conn. In 1852 he settled at Rock Island, Ill., and in 1856 was elected state's attorney, serving four years.
In 1861 he entered the volunteer army, and as a captain took an active part in the battles of Forts Henry and Donelson.
In 1865 he was appointed postmaster of Rock Island, and in 1868 was elected a representative from Illinois to the fortyfirst congress. He was re-elected to the two succeeding congresses, and was assistant secretary of the treasury in