San Benito County CA Archives Biographies.....Hawkins, John W. 1840 - 
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Author: Luther A. Ingersoll, Editor (1893)

JOHN W. HAWKINS, a representative business man of Hollister, is a native of
Marion county, Missouri, having been born near the city of Hannibal, September
22, 1840. His life has been chiefly devoted to agricultural pursuits, in which
he has been very successful.

  His father, Nicholas Hawkins, was also a life-long farmer and a native of
Kentucky, where he was greatly esteemed. Our subject was reared in his native
State, and in 1868 came to Hollister and was one of the original settlers on the
subdivision of the San Justo or Hollister grant. He now owns one of the finest
farms of 200 acres in the county, which joins the city of Hollister, also 700
acres of productive farm land near Winters, California.

  Mr. Hawkins married Miss Frances J. Chapped, a native of McDonald county,
Missouri, born near Neosho, October 7, 1845, and a daughter of Alfred Chapped, a
resident of Hollister. Mr. and Mrs. Hawkins have four living children, namely:
William E., born July 30, 1867; Alfred N., born April 11, 1869, married Emma
Elizabeth Sherman, and is now a farmer of Woodland, California; Mary A., born
December 28,1870; Lee, born January 15,1878; and Frank C., born May 22, 1873,
died March, 4, 1892. Mr. Hawkins has been active in all enterprises that had for
their object the material, educational or social advancement of the city of
Hollister and county of San Benito. No family in the State is held in any higher
esteem by those who know them than is that of the subject of this notice.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

Memorial and Biographical History of the Coast Counties of Central California.

Illustrated.

Containing a History of this Important Section of the Pacific Coast from the
Earliest Period of its Discovery to the Present Time, together with Glimpses of
its Auspicious Future; Illustrations and Full-Page Portraits of some of its
Eminent Men, and Biographical Mention of many of its Pioneers, and Prominent
Citizens of To-day.



HENRY D. BARROWS,
Editor of the Historical Department.

LUTHER A. INGERSOLL,
Editor of the Biographical Department.

"A people that take no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will
never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote
descendants."-Macaulay.


CHICAGO: THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY.
1893.

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