Las Animas-Pueblo County CO Archives Biographies.....Hawley, Joseph W. 1882 - 
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Author: Wilbur Fiske Stone (1918)

JOSEPH W. HAWLEY.

    Joseph W. Hawley, an active member of the Colorado bar practicing at
Trinidad, where he is also filling the office of district attorney, was born in
Topeka, Kansas, on the 6th of May, 1882, a son of Theodore S. and Margaret M.
(Miller) Hawley. The father was a Presbyterian minister, devoting his life to
the work of preaching the gospel. The family came to Colorado in 1900, settling
at Trinidad, and for a number of years the father was actively identified with
the moral progress of the community but passed away on the 20th of March, 1914.
He is survived by his wife and their family of six children, of whom Joseph W.
Hawley is the second in order of birth.

     In the public schools of Omaha, Nebraska, Joseph W. Hawley largely acquired
his preliminary education, passing from one grade to another until he had
completed the high school course. He next entered Coe College at Cedar Rapids,
Iowa, and won the Bachelor of Arts degree upon graduation with the class of
1904. The following year, having become a resident of Las Animas county,
Colorado, he was appointed to the office of clerk of the county court and
continued to occupy that position in a most acceptable manner until 1911. In the
meantime he had studied law under private instruction and after thoroughly
mastering the principles of jurisprudence was admitted to the bar in June, 1908.
With his retirement from the office of clerk of the county court he was made
register of the United States land office at Pueblo and occupied that position
from 1911 until 1915. He then returned to Trinidad and is concentrating his
efforts and attention upon professional duties. In November, 1916, he was
elected to the office of district attorney for a four years' term and is proving
most capable and faithful in that position.

     On the 2d of August, 1913, Mr. Hawley was united in marriage to Miss Edith
G. Highy. They hold membership in the Presbyterian church and in social circles
occupy an enviable position.

     M. Hawley is well known in fraternal connections, being a past master of
Trinidad Lodge, No. 89, A. F. & A. M., and a member of the Elks and the Royal
Arcanum. In the last named he is a past grand regent of the state. He belongs to
the Trinidad Country Club and to the Trinidad Club and he has membership in the
Chamber of Commerce, cooperating heartily in all well defined plans put forth by
the organization for the benefit of the community. His political allegiance has
ever been given to the republican party and while a firm believer in its
principles, he places the general good before partisanship. He is now acting as
government appeal agent for Las Animas county and he is one of the Four Minute
men. He has closely studied the situation affecting the country at the present
hour, and actuated by a most loyal and patriotic spirit, is putting forth every
possible effort to advance the nation's interests and welfare.


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HISTORY OF COLORADO

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VOLUME II
CHICAGO
THE S. J. CLARKE PUBLISHING COMPANY
1918

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