Yavapai-Coconino-Mohave County AZ Archives Biographies.....Hawkins, John J. 1855 - living in 1896
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Author: McFarland & Poole

p. 604

  JUDGE JOHN J. HAWKINS. Among the men of Arizona noted for character and
ability is Judge John J. Hawkins, who is one of the most popular of the many
worthy men elevated to the bench in the history of the Territory's
jurisprudence. He is a native Missourian, born in Saline County, January 4,
1855, and a man whose educational facilities have been of the best. He attended
William Jewell College, a Baptist college of Liberty, Mo., and subsequently
entered the State University at Columbia. Following that he was in the law
office of Hon. Thomas Shockelford of Glasgow, Mo., and was admitted one year
later, in 1878. He then formed a partnership with Mr. Shockelford, with whom he
continued in Glasgow for five years. In 1883 he removed to Prescott, opened an
office there in the summer of that year, and on the 1st of January, 1885, he
formed a partnership with Judge Herndon, continuing with him until appointed to
the Supreme bench in 1893. He represented-Apache, Norojoe, Coconino, Yavapai and
Mohave counties. During 1885 and '86 he was probate judge of Yavapai County,
Territorial judge for four years and a member of the Territorial Council during
the Seventeenth Legislature. While in the Seventeenth Legislature he was
chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means and of the joint Commission of
Public Instruction. Judge Hawkins has made his home in Prescott, but he has
interests all over the Territory and is a man full of energy and determination.
He is a member of the Masonic Lodge at Prescott and three lodges and the Shrine
at Los Angeles. In the month of May, 1885, he married Miss Olive Birch, daughter
of Thomas E. Birch of Missouri, and they have one child, a daughter, named Eliza.


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A Historical and Biographical Record of the Territory of Arizona
Published by
McFarland & Poole, Chicago, 1896

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