MONTGOMERY COUNTY OHIO - BIOS:  HAWKINS, Samuel
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from, "The History of Montgomery County, Ohio."; by W. H. Beers & Co., 
pub. 1882;

page 297

SAMUEL HAWKINS, physician; P. O. Union.  His father, John, was a native of
Shenandoah County, Va., and came to Ohio and located at Spring Valley,
Green Co., Ohio, where he continued the honorable occupation of tilling the
soil.  He celebrated his marriage with Mary Penyweigh, in 1818.  Six
children were the result of this union.  Samuel, the subject of this
memoir, is the only one who survives.  He was born in Green Co., Ohio, Jan.
2, 1819, and received his primary education in the common schools and
assisted his father until he was 23 years of age, the time of his
commencing preparation for entering the medical profession.  He placed himself, 
under Dr. Cable, of Bellbrook, until 1842, when he took a course of lectures 
and was able to enter the field of practice in 1843.  He opened up an 
office in Union, Randolph Township, this county, and has continued practicing 
with remarkably good success until the present, a term comprising a period of
thirty-seven years.  Mr. Hawkins took for wife Mary A. Andrews, and as a
result of this union had eight children, of whom six are now living, viz.:
Jennie, Permelia, Celia, Georgia, Addie, John A.  Dr. H. is now past sixty
years of age, and of course the most active part of his life is spent, but
he furnishes a good example for the future generation to follow.