Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Hawk, William Philip Sheridan April 24, 1861 - 
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Source: The Story of Hawaii and Its Builders. Published by the Honolulu Star Bulletin, Territory of Hawaii, 1925
Author: Edited by George F. Nellist

WILLIAM PHILIP SHERIDAN HAWK, Radio Corporation, Hawaiian General 
Superintendent. Employed for forty years by telegraph and wireless companies 
in various capacities, ranging from messenger boy to sole owner, William P. S. 
Hawk in 1925 is Hawaiian General Superintendent for the Radio Corporation of 
America, Honolulu, having jurisdiction over all three units of the extensive 
properties on the Island of Oahu; namely, the transmitting station at Kahuku, 
the receiving station at Koko Head, the Honolulu remote control and city 
offices.
  Mr. Hawk came to Hawaii in 1914 to open the city office and start the 
business as city superintendent of the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Co., since 
absorbed by the Radio Corporation of America. He expected to remain one year, 
but was gradually assigned additional responsibilities with the growth of the 
company’s business, and in Oct., 1923, was appointed Hawaiian general 
superintendent.
  Mr. Hawk’s experience in the telegraph business has been carried. In 1880 he 
began as a messenger for the Western Union Telegraph Co., at Anderson, Ind., 
and from 1885 to 1887 was an operator for the C. H. & D. Railway at Hamilton, 
O., and the Missouri Pacific at LaMonte, Mo. In 1887 he became identified with 
the Rocky Mountain Telegraph Co. of Montana and four years later was appointed 
general manager. This Montana company had been organized by Senator W. A. 
Clark and the late Marcus Daly of that state and consisted of 400 miles of 
line, connecting the principal cities of the state and having connections with 
the Postal Telegraph-Cable Co.’s system via the Canadian Pacific Telegraph Co. 
From 1892 to 1895 Mr. Hawk operated this property as lessee and for the next 
three years as sole owner. The Rocky Mountain Co. was purchased by the Postal 
Telegraph-Cable Co. in 1898 and connected by extensions with Denver, Colo., 
via Salt Lake City, Utah. Mr. Hawk at that time was appointed superintendent 
of the sixth district, western division, with offices in Helena, Mont. In 1904 
he was transferred to Salt Lake City, and in 1910 to Chicago, remaining there 
until 1912, where he had jurisdiction over all the Postal system’s offices 
numbering some forty in the states of Illinois and Indiana, with the exception 
of the city of Chicago.
  As a special representative Mr. Hawk went with the Western Union at San 
Francisco in 1913, and the following year was sent to Hawaii by the Marconi 
Wireless Telegraph Co. He was city treasurer of Fort Benton, Mont., from 1888 
to 1890, and was also secretary and treasurer of the Fort Benton Electric 
Light and Waterworks Co. He was a former member of the Elks in Montana, the 
Montana Club, Helena, Mont., and the Alta and Commercial Clubs of Salt Lake 
City and is a member of the Commercial, Ad and Honolulu Golf Clubs of Honolulu.
  Born in Oxford, O., April 24, 1865, he is the son of Philip and Sarah 
Elizabeth Hawk. His education was obtained in the public schools at Hamilton, 
O. In 1890 he married Vesta Ines Baker of Glenwood, Iowa, and they have three 
children, Helen, Dorothy and Margaret Hawk.


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