Lewis County, West Virginia Biography of Edward Marshall HAWKINS This biography was submitted by Valerie Crook, E-mail address: The submitter does not have a connection to the subject of this sketch. This file may be freely copied by individuals and non-profit organizations for their private use. All other rights reserved. Any other use, including publication, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission by electronic, mechanical, or other means requires the written approval of the file's author. This file is part of the WVGenWeb Archives. If you arrived here inside a frame or from a link from somewhere else, our front door is at http://www.usgwarchives.net/wv/wvfiles.htm The History of West Virginia, Old and New Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, Volume III, pg. 403 EDWARD MARSHALL HAWKINS is another of the native sons of West Virginia to be prominently identified with the great coal-mining industry of the state. He is superin- tendent of the Harrison property of the Courtright-Cornog Collieries Company of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He is also interested in the ownership of coal and oil land in Ritchie County, and has real estate interests in the City of Clarksburg, Harrison County, where he maintains his home. Mr. Hawkins was born on a farm near Clarksburg, Har- rison County, November 25, 1878, and is a son of William and Nancy (Nuzum) Hawkins, the former a native of Taylor County, this state, and the latter of Harrison Coun- ty. The father became one of the successful teachers in the schools of Harrison County and was a gallant soldier of the Union in the Civil war, in which he served more than three years, in the command of General Sherman, he having been wounded in both legs and also injured by a saber stroke. After the close of the war he returned to Harrison County, and he continued as one of the honored citizens and representative farmers of that county until his death in 1907, his widow being still a resident of that county. Mr. Hawkins was an active member of the Meth- odist Protestant Church, as is also his widow, was a re- publican in politics, and was affiliated with the Grand Army of the Republic. All of the fine family of twelve children survive the honored father: Effie, wife of Syl- vanus Frum; May, the wife of S. F. Deloe; Edward Mar- shall, subject of this review; Anna, wife of Rev. Perry Null; Thomas, a blacksmith at McMechen, Marshall Coun- ty; Morton, a miner at MeMechen; Stella, wife of John Null; Nettie, wife of Albert Duty; Naomi and Miss Mat- tie; Everett, a miner in Ohio; and Muriel, wife of Rev. Arthur Null. Edward Marshall Hawkins passed his childhood and early youth on the home farm, and supplemented the discipline of the public schools by attending a normal school. He remained at the parental home until he had attained to his legal majority, and then became identified with coal-min- ing operations, first as a machine man, later as an elec- trician, and finally as mine foreman and mine superintend- ent in turn. For five years he was manager of the Monongah Glass Company's machine plant, and he ia now prominently concerned again with coal mining enterprises, as denoted by the responsible position of which he is the incumbent. Mr. Hawkins is unwavering in his allegiance to the republican party, is affiliated with St. John's Lodge No. 24, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, at Shinnston, Harrison County, and he and his wife are active members of the Methodist Protestant Church at Clarksburg. In 1899 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Hawkins and Miss Aldie Douglass, and they have had four chil- dren. Carrie, who was born in December, 1902, entered the Fairmont High School when but twelve years of age, graduating at fifteen years of age, and graduated in the State Normal School at Fairmont when she was seventeen years old. Thereafter she graduated in the University of West Virginia, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts, and she is now a successful and popular teacher in the pub- lic schools of Clarksburg. Leonard, who was born No- vember 28, 1911, remains at the parental home and is still attending school. The deceased children were: Clifford, who died aged three years, and George, who died aged three years and seven months.