Bartholomew-Jennings County IN Archives Biographies.....Hawley, K. D. 1840 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/in/infiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher sdgenweb@yahoo.com January 24, 2007, 11:32 am Author: B. F. Bowen (1904) K. D. HAWLEY, M. D. An enumeration of the men of the present generation who have won honor and public recognition for themselves and at the same time have honored the state to which they belong would be incomplete were there failure to make prominent reference to the one whose name initiates this paragraph. He holds distinctive precedence as a physician of ability, as a valiant and patriotic soldier and as a political leader. He has been and is distinctively a man of affluence and one who has wielded a wide influence. The Doctor was born in Saratoga, New York, November 13, 1840, his parents being Charles and Adriette (DuBois) Hawley. The father was of English lineage, the family having been established in America by two brothers who came from England at an early epoch in the history of the new world. One settled in Connecticut and the other in North Carolina. Senator Hawley is a representative of the same family. On the maternal line the Doctor comes of Knickerbocker stock of New York and the DuBois family was represented in the Revolutionary war on the colonial side. The parents of Dr. Hawley came to Indiana in 1857 and purchased a farm in Jennings county and both spent their last days in Seymour, Jackson county. Mr. Hawley was a man of considerable note as an architect in New York and was employed to make the plans for some of the finest buildings of the Empire state. After his removal to Indiana he engaged in farming. The father died in 1875, the mother in 1872. To them were born five children, of whom four are still living. The Doctor spent his boyhood days under the parental roof and when a little lad of six years entered the public schools at Cohoes, New York, completing the work of the prescribed course there. Later he spent one year at Union College, Schenectady, New York, and for one term he engaged in teaching school in Jennings county, Indiana. He also spent one term as a teacher in Hayden, Indiana. It was his intention to study law and make its practice his life work, but, changing his plans, he began reading medicine in 1861 under the direction of Dr. A. G. Boynton, of Elizabethtown, Bartholomew county. During the spring of 1862, however, he put aside his medical books and all personal considerations in order to aid in the preservation of the Union. He enlisted as a private, of Company B, Eighty-second Indiana Infantry, and served until the last year of the war, never faltering in his allegiance to the old flag and the cause it represented. At the battle of Stone River he was wounded and for some time was disabled for further duty. On receiving an honorable discharge Dr. Hawley returned to his home at Seymour and resumed the study of medicine. Later he entered the Ohio Medical College, in which he was graduated in the spring of 1866. Immediately thereafter he began practice in Seymour, Indiana, where he remained for a year. He then formed a partnership with his former preceptor at Elizabethtown, Indiana, this relation being maintained for three years, or until 1870. In that year the Doctor, who had become prominent in political circles and was recognized as a leader therein, was called to public office, being chosen to represent his district in the general assembly for a term of two years. In Indianapolis he again proved his devotion to his state and her best interests, being as loyal to her welfare as when he followed the old flag on southern battlefields. After his retirement from office he resumed the practice of medicine in Elizabethtown, where for twenty years he was actively engaged, enjoying a large patronage. In 1888 he removed to Columbus, Indiana, and is now one of the leading physicians of this city, his broad reading, close investigation and varied study having kept him in touch with the progress that is continually being made by the medical profession. He is quick to adopt new and improved methods, yet does not heedlessly discard the old methods whose worth have been proven. In 1866 Dr. Hawley was united in marriage to Miss Irene Boynton. She is a lady of superior culture and refinement and is a local writer of some prominence, producing a number of notable works of poetry and fiction. Some of her writings have appeared in the Eastern papers and she was one of the editors of the Home Visitor, of Indianapolis. Unto the Doctor and his wife have been born eight children, of whom two sons and three daughters are yet living: Max, who is a graduate of the Indiana University, where he won the degree of Bachelor of Arts, is now a student and also . instructor in physics in the Central Medical College of the capital city; Roscoe is a graduate of the institution for the blind at Indianapolis; Adriette is the wife of Augustavus Schiller; Nina is the wife of R. W. Pentzer, of Indianapolis; and Ada is at home. All of the children are graduates of the high school and learning and culture are held in high esteem in this household, while the family occupies an enviable position in social circles, where true worth and intelligence are received as passports into good society. The Doctor has always given his political support to the Democracy and since coming to this county he has served as a member of the pension examining board for twelve years, acting at different times as its secretary and its president, and is now acting for the pension bureau as expert eye and ear examiner. He belongs to the Grand Army of the Republic, to the Improved Order of Red Men and to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and in the last named has filled all of the chairs. Whatever tends to promote the interests of his profession and give to man the key to that complex problem which we call life at once attracts the interest and co-operation of Dr. Hawley. He is an extremely busy and successful practitioner. A strong mentality and invincible courage and a marked individuality have so entered into his makeup as to render him a natural leader of men and a director of opinion. Additional Comments: Extracted from BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF BARTHOLOMEW COUNTY INDIANA INCLUDING BIOGRAPHIES OF THE GOVERNORS AND OTHER REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS OF INDIANA ILLUSTRATED 1904 B. F. Bowen PUBLISHER File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/in/bartholomew/bios/hawley738gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/infiles/ File size: 6.8 Kb