Marshall County KS Archives Biographies.....Hawkins, Richard H. 1877 - 
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Author: Emma E. Forter (1917)

RICHARD H. HAWKINS.
    Richard H. Hawkins, a substantial farmer of Center township, this county,
was born on the farm he now owns and on which he is living and has lived there
all his life. He was born on April 22, 1877, son of Thomas and Jane (Jackson)
Hawkins, both natives of Ireland, who came to Kansas after their marriage in New
York state and became pioneers of Marshall county, being among the very first
settlers of Center township.

    Thomas Hawkins was born in Ireland on January 6, 1846, son of Richard
Francis Hawkins and wife, farming people, both natives of the Emerald Isle, who
spent all their lives there, the former dying in 1850 at the age of fifty years.
When twenty-one years of age, in 1867, Thomas Hawkins came to the United States,
stopping in New York and later taking a trip to Canada. He then returned to New
York, where, in the spring of 1870, he married and he and his bride straightway
came out to Kansas and settled in Marshall county. Upon his arrival here Mr.
Hawkins homesteaded a tract of eighty acres in section 8 of Center township, and
there established his home. He put up a small frame house, sixteen by twenty-two
feet, and dug the first well put down in that township. He broke up his land
with oxen and presently had his farm under cultivation. As he prospered he added
adjoining land and became the owner of a well-kept farm of one hundred and sixty
acres. He set out a grove of cotton wood trees, transplanting slips he gathered
along the banks of the Blue river, and in due time had a good looking farm. In
common with other early settlers he suffered discouraging losses during the time
of the grasshopper visitation, but "stuck it out" and in time succeeded,
becoming accounted one of the substantial pioneers of that section of the
county. Both Mr. Hawkins and his wife had been reared in the faith of the
Episcopal church and helped to organize a church of that denomination in Center
township and Mr. Hawkins set in place the first stone that went into the
foundation of the church. His early wheat crops were hauled to the Hutchinson
mill at Marysville, where he received twenty-five cents a bushel for the same.
He hauled his fuel from Blue Rapids, paying from one dollar   to one dollar and
fifty cents a cord for the same.

    On April 18, 1870, in New York State, Thomas Hawkins was united in marriage
to Jane Jackson, who also was born in Ireland, September 13, 1835, daughter of
Henry and Amelia (Hawkins) Jackson, natives of Ireland. Mrs. Hawkins left her
native land in 1859, going to Canada and later to New York, where she was
married. To that union four children were born, those besides the subject of
this sketch being as follow: Amelia, who married George Brown, a farmer, of
Franklin township, this county, and has four children; Mary E., who married W.
D. Miller, of Marysville, and has five children, and Rebecca F., who married
Edward Hawkins, of Franklin township, to which union three children were born,
one of whom is now dead.

    Richard H. Hawkins grew to manhood on the pioneer farm on which he was born
and has lived there all his life. In his boyhood and young manhood he was an
able assistant to his father in the labors of developing and improving the home
place and is now farming the same, a well-developed       
tract of three hundred and twenty acres on which he is doing very well. Mr.
Hawkins is independent in his political views. He is a member of the Episcopal
church and takes a proper interest in church work. Fraternally, he is affiliated
with the local lodge of the Ancient Order of United Workmen and takes a warm
interest in the affairs of the same.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

History of Marshall County, Kansas: its people, industries, and institutions
by
Emma E. Forter

Indianapolis, Ind.: B.F. Bowen & Co. (1917)


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