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  Joseph Roswell Hawley - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Joseph Roswell Hawley (October 31, 1826 – March 17, 1905) was a Governor of Connecticut, a U.S. politician in the Republican and Free Soil parties, a Civil War general, and a journalist and newspaper editor.
Hawley was born in Stewartsville, North Carolina, where his father, a native of Connecticut, was pastor of a Baptist church.
An ardent opponent of slavery, Hawley became a Free Soiler, was a delegate to the National Convention which nominated John Parker Hale for the presidency in 1852, and subsequently served as chairman of the party's State Committee and editor of the party's newspaper, the Charter Oak.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Joseph_Roswell_Hawley   (517 words)

  
 Hawley, Joseph Roswell   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
Senator Hawley, though a native of the South, born Oct. 31, 1826, at Stewartsville, N. C, is a product of New England, and in paternal lines is from early Connecticut ancestry.
He is of English-Scotch lineage, and on his father's side is a descendant in the eighth generation from Joseph Hawley, who came from Parwick, Derbyshire, England, landing near Boston, Mass., in 1629, and became a planter or settler at Stratford, Conn., in about 1640.
Joseph R. Hawley prepared for college at the Hartford Grammar School and the seminary at Cazenovia, N.Y., whither the family removed about 1842.
www.rootsweb.com /~ctharbio/Hawley_Joseph_Roswell.html   (274 words)

  
 Hawley's Brigade   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
Colonel Joseph Roswell Hawley commanded the second brigade of Seymour's army, including the Seventh Connecticut, Seventh New Hampshire, and the Eighth United States Colored Infantry.
After graduating from Hamilton College in 1847, Hawley served as a delegate to the 1852 Free Soil Convention, and was an early leader in the state Republican party.
Hawley's Brigade, particularly the Seventh New Hampshire, did not perform well at Olustee, and Hawley himself was accused of giving an incorrect order that threw part of his troops into confusion.
extlab1.entnem.ufl.edu /olustee/hawley.html   (249 words)

  
 Joseph Roswell Hawley
HAWLEY, Joseph Roswell, statesman, born in Stewartsville, North Carolina, 31 October, 1826.
His father, Reverend Francis Hawley (descended from Samuel, who settled in Stratford, Connecticut, in 1639), was born in Farmington, Connecticut he went south early and engaged in business, but afterward entered the Baptist ministry.
Hawley succeeded Terry, and commanded the regiment in the battles of James Island and Pocotaligo, and in Brannan's expedition to Florida.
www.famousamericans.net /josephroswellhawley   (1204 words)

  
 Hawley Genealogy - pafg317 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
Estella Elizabeth HAWLEY [Parents] was born 14 Apr 1882 in Vera, Fayette Co., Illinois.
Nancy Ella HAWLEY [Parents] was born 28 Jan 1870 in Shobonier, Fayette Co., Illinois.
Emma Ora HAWLEY [Parents] was born 15 Dec 1879 in Vera, Fayette Co., Illinois.
www.hawleysociety.org /hawleygen/pafg317.htm   (290 words)

  
 Official Records
In consequence of an attack of the enemy on our lines on the afternoon of the 10th, the reconnaissance ordered for the 11th was postponed, and was again ordered for the 16th, in obedience to the terms of General Hunter's order, as well as to the military necessities of the case.
Hawley, Seventh Connecticut Regiment, the commander of the leading brigade at the first of the assaults on the rebel battery on James Island.
Colonel Hawley also stated to me that from the time his regiment first encountered the marsh, at F, till he had reformed and brought, it to the position at H, advancing, and within 100 yards of the fort, when he was recalled by Captain Stevens, was about ten minutes, as near as he could judge.
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 Clinton County, Wilmington, Ohio History
WILLIAM R., of Babb and Osborn, dealers in fresh meats, East Main street, Wilmington, was born in Union Township February 23, 1833, He is a son of Thomas Babb, a native of Frederick County, Va., Scotch ancestry, and a farmer by occupation.
JOSEPH R., Wilmington, grocer and dealer in provisions, South street, was born in North Carolina, October 10, 1844.
Hawley was elected Justice of the Peace of Oxford Township, of that county, in which office he served for eighteen months.
www.heritagepursuit.com /Clinton/ClintonBUnion.htm   (22832 words)

  
 Civil War Manuscripts Project - G-H
Hawley sends a "testament" to this condemned man who had attended her "little school" at St. Helena for a time.
Hawley, a married editor, following service in the First Connecticut Infantry, enlisted 30 August 1861 and was mustered-in as Lt. Colonel, 7th Connecticut Infantry, on 17 September 1861.
Bound typescript of letters from Joseph and Harriet Foote Hawley mainly to Charles Dudley Warner, compiled and edited by Everett C. Willson in 1929.
www.chs.org /kcwmp/cwgh.htm   (4078 words)

  
 Onondaga County, NY Waller Genealogy
It was incorporated with Ebenezer R. Hawley, Joseph Clift, Judah Hopkins, Peter Putnam, and Daniel Cook as trustees, and was the first organization of the kind in Western Onondaga.
She was a daughter of Joseph Stansbury, was born on the Atlantic Ocean on February 23, 1775, and being en route to Philadelphia was christened Lydia Philadelphia Stansbury.
The vice-president is Joseph C. Willetts, and the directors are Caleb W. Allis, Joseph C. Willetts, Elias Thorne, Jacob H. Allen, Abram A. Lawton, B. Petheram, James A. Root, William Marvin, Joseph S. Shotwell, Philip Allen, William G. Thorne, William B. Lawton.
www.alleylaw.net /nyonondaga.html   (13571 words)

  
 HistoryWired: A few of our favorite things
Nevertheless, thanks to a few believers, chief among them a newspaperman named Joseph R. Hawley, the exhibition opened in Philadelphia on May 10, 1876, two months short of the nation's one hundredth birthday.
In sum, it was overwhelming testimony to what the new nation had accomplished, and what it intended to become: a nation of FORTY MILLIONS OF FREEMEN RULING FROM OCEAN TO OCEAN, as one poster read.
Joseph Hawley remarked that while we might not have any Raphaels, "we had a nation to show." And an announcement to make, to ourselves and the world, that a new industrial giant had arrived.
historywired.si.edu /detail.cfm?ID=366   (314 words)

  
 Memoirs of Thomas Donaldson 1872-1877 Transcriptions
Hawley, of Connecticut, [president of the Commission in 1876] voted against it, and he was defeated for Congress by the German vote of Hartford for doing so.
When Hawley was being proposed to be Commissioner General to the Paris Exposition, I hear rumors of opposition to his confirmation.
General J. Hawley said to me today that Conkling told him that after [Salmon P.] Chase died, Evarts went to a friend and asked him whether or not, if he were in his [Evarts’] place, he would accept the position of Chief Justice of the United States.
www.rbhayes.org /hayes/content/files/donaldsontc/donaldson18721877.htm   (14505 words)

  
 Civil War Biographies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
Birge resigned from the governor's staff to form the 4th Connecticut, what would be the first three year regiment formed from the state.
Joseph R. Hawley, a founder of the Connecticut Republican party and a future governor, is usually credited with being the first person from Connecticut to enlist to serve the Union and with forming the first regiment, a three month regiment, the 1st Connecticut.
Birge was appointed a major in the 4th CT on 23 May 1861.
www.civilwarinteractive.com /BiosAllResults.asp?id=49   (321 words)

  
 Twain and the Republicans   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
Hawley, of Connecticut, and I see it is the report that I am to make a political speech.
General Hawley is a man who keeps his promises; he is a man who always speaks the truth, and not only in private life but in politics; he is an editor who believes what he says in his own newspaper.
At the close of his remarks, Gen. Hawley stepped forward and, for an hour and a half, spoke on the issues of the day.
www.twainquotes.com /18791019a.html   (585 words)

  
 Negro Slavery In Connecticut
The saintly John Davenport, pastor at New Haven, the accomplished and versatile Joseph Elliott of Guilford, the Rev. Timothy Woodbridge of Hartford, Rev. Jared Elliott of Killingworth, Rev. Nathaniel Chauncey of Durham, and the Rev. William Worthington of Saybrook all owned slaves and disposed of them in their wills as of any other property.
This gentleman opposed a constable's executing a writ of arrest on Abda, and Abda brought a I counter suit against Capt. Richards, claiming damages, twenty pounds sterling; the verdict of the court rested with Abda, for it awarded him damages of twelve pounds and virtually established his freedom.
Joseph R. Hawley, agent, purchased for John Hooker, Esq., of Hartford, Rev. James Pennington, D. D., ("Jim Pembroke ") an escaped slave who had previously served as pastor of a church in that city.
history.rays-place.com /slavery.htm   (3601 words)

  
 The River Reporter Online - Obituaries
Survivors include a son, Vincent of the state of Florida; a stepson, Joseph Santarella of the state of Florida; a daughter, Linda Smith of Narrowsburg; a brother, William of Staten Island; six grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; nieces and nephews.
JOSEPH R. HAWLEYJoseph R. Verderosa of Fawn Lake in Hawley, a retired letter carrier for the U.S. Postal Service, and a 23-year area resident, died Thursday, May 3, 2001 at home.
HAWLEY — Doris Theresa Wetzel of Hawley, a retired personnel administrator at William Esty Advertising in New York, NY, died Saturday, April 28, 2001 at Pocono Medical Center in East Stroudsburg.
www.riverreporter.com /issues/01-05-10/obits.htm   (2116 words)

  
 Hudson-Mohawk Genealogical and Family Memoirs: Hawley   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
Samuel Hawley was a leading citizen of Stratford, member of the church, and officer of the town.
Captain John Hawley was elected eighteen times, so that in sixty-six years some member of the Hawley family had been elected to the assembly fifty-seven times from Stratford, counting the service of Captain Joseph Hawley, of Farmington, Connecticut, which ended 1738.
Elisha R., died March 14, 1862, was of New York City.
www.schenectadyhistory.org /families/hmgfm/hawley.html   (1367 words)

  
 Centennial Exhibition of 1876   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
This commission was charged with planning "an International Exhibition of Arts, Manufactures, and Products of the Soil and Mine." Members of the body were appointed by President Ulysses S. Grant following nomination by the governors of the states and territories.
Joseph R. Hawley, of Connecticut, was named the president.
Representing Pennsylvania was Daniel J. Morrell, of Johnstown, a U.S. representative who had introduced into the Congress the act that created the commission.
www.phmc.state.pa.us /ppet/centennial/page1.asp?secid=31   (618 words)

  
 OBITUARY SKETCH OF DEXTER R. WRIGHT
OBITUARY SKETCH OF DEXTER R. who died in New Haven, July 23d, 1886, was a member of the New Haven County Bar for nearly forty years.
As a presiding officer he had no superiors and few equals; he was president of the convention of 1866 which nominated Joseph R. Hawley for governor.
He was devoted to public affairs as a citizen of New Haven, and for several years was a member of the board of common council and of the board of aldermen.
www.cslib.org /memorials/wrightd.htm   (1557 words)

  
 Joseph & Elizabeth Hawley
From L to R: Constance, Edith, Harry, Joseph Henry, William, Elizabeth (née Swinnerton), Douglas.
Harry and Coralie Hawley moved from New Zealand to Queenstown, Tasmania where their son Douglas was born in 1916.
Their son Julian was born in 1955 and he also worked in the ceramic industry for the first eight years of his career.
www.thepotteries.org /people/hawley_elias3.htm   (862 words)

  
 History of Town of Skaneateles
In common with those who drew lots in other towns of this county, only one or two of the grantees became settlers on their lands; nearly all sold their claims for trifling returns.
The charter was amended in 1849; the corporate limits were enlarged in 1870 to embrace about one square mile; and in 1855 the village was reincorporated under the new State law.
164, G. R., with Henry T. Webb, president; F. Weeks, vice-president; and George H. Wicks, secretary and treasurer, and May 30, 1889, the corner stone of the present stone memorial in Lakeview Cemetery was laid with appropriate ceremonies.
web.cortland.edu /woosterk/ononcent.html   (13558 words)

  
 2002 Pin Oak Survey
Delegates from all 168 towns attended and worked on the document, which was apparently soundly defeated by a subsequent statewide vote (Zaiman 1965).
Joseph R. Hawley, one of Connecticut's US Senators, arranged for the US Department of Agriculture's Bureau of Plant Industry to provide Pin Oak (Quercus palustris) seedlings, which he distributed to each of the 168 participants at the close of the Convention to commemorate the experience.
The delegates took the little trees back home, where they were planted on town greens, school yards, church yards and, in many cases, on the delegate's own property.
notabletrees.conncoll.edu /2002PinOakSurvey.html   (885 words)

  
 National Park Service: The Origin and Evolution of the National Military Park Idea
On behalf of the Committee on Military Affairs, Senator Joseph R. Hawley of Connecticut reported this same measure favorably to the Senate on March 19, 1896.
Senator Hawley had a long-standing interest in historical and military matters.
Before the war he had been active in the anti-slavery crusade and was a friend of Gideon Welles and of Charles Dudley Warner.
www.cr.nps.gov /history/online_books/history_military/nmpidea5h.htm   (335 words)

  
 Direct Action by Voltairine De Cleyre
She is the person who, in response to U.S. Senator Joseph R.
Hawley's offer of one thousand dollars to have a shot at an anarchist, said:
However, this is one of the common jests which Progress plays on those who think themselves able to set metes and bounds for it.
www.spunk.org /library/writers/decleyre/sp001334.html   (5223 words)

  
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By a very thoughtful arrangement, which was carried out with a happy effect, the repre sentatives of this and most of the other nations, directly interested at the Exhibition, were conducted to the platform during the performance of their respec tive national airs by Theodore Thomas' grand orchestra of 150 musicians.
Upon the conclusion of the national airs the Presi dent of the United States, accompanied by Presidents Hawley and Welsh, of the Commission and Board of Finance, and the members of the Cabinet, made his appearance on the rostrum, and met with a hearty greeting.
Then, upon a signal by General Hawley, the orchestra performed the Cen tennial Grand March, composed by Richard Wagner, which received at its close an applause that was almost rapturous.
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 Volume V Chapter LII
Friday.- General Hawley wrote a letter when Butler was running for governor, opposing him because of his crude and wild notions on currency.
General Hawley was promptly informed of it by telegraph.
General Hawley told his clerk to read it to Butler and to put it in the Associated Press [despatch].
www.ohiohistory.org /onlinedoc/hayes/chapterlii.html   (13044 words)

  
 In re Diane R. Hawley, Debtor (Illinois Fed.B. 02/20/2004)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
RICHARD E. BARBER, not personally, but as Chapter 7 Trustee for Diane R. Hawley, Plaintiff, vs. CYNTHIA J. SIMPSON, not personally, but as Successor Trustee of the G. Raymond Becker Irrevocable Trust dated August 11, 1976, Defendant.
JUDGES: THOMAS L. This matter is before the Court on cross motions for summary judgment filed by the Plaintiff, Richard E. Barber, as Chapter 7 Trustee ("CHAPTER 7 TRUSTEE") for Diane R. Hawley, and by the Defendant, Cynthia J. Simpson ("SIMPSON"), as Successor Trustee of the G. Raymond Becker Irrevocable Trust.
At issue is whether the interest of the Debtor, Diane R. Hawley ("DEBTOR"), in the spendthrift trust created by her father, G. Raymond Becker, is property of her bankruptcy estate.
www.assetprotectionbook.com /IL_Hawley_2004.htm   (4663 words)

  
 Memoirs of Thomas Corwin Donaldson dated 1881-1893 at the Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center
General Joseph E. Johnson (ex-Rebel), chairman of the committee, and all others on his side voted "No." McCook’s impression was that if the friends of Grant had agreed to it, a bill would have been reported to pension all ex-Presidents.
In the evening mentioning to Senator Joseph R. Hawley, Warmouth’s remark as to Gibson and McVeagh, Hawley said: "You know I was a member of the Louisiana Commission along with McVeagh and three others in 1877.
HOW JOSEPH E. None of the Confederate leaders were so highly esteemed by those who were his opponents in the field of war and in politics as quies were performed at St. John’s Church this morning.
www.rbhayes.org /hayes/content/files/donaldsontc/donaldson18811893.htm   (19568 words)

  
 Historical Rosters
In instances where no districts are given, the elections were at large.
Elected January 12, 1982, to fill the vacancy created by the death of William R. Cotter.
Following the 2001 redistricting, the number of Congressional Districts was reduced from six to five and Nancy Johnson was elected to the reconfigured fifth district.
www.sots.ct.gov /RegisterManual/SectionI/U.S.SenatorsRepsfromCT.htm   (561 words)

  
 Find in a Library: General Joseph R. Hawley, president of the Chicago convention Hon. Edward H. Durell, of Louisiana. ...
Find in a Library: General Joseph R. Hawley, president of the Chicago convention Hon.
General Joseph R. Hawley, president of the Chicago convention Hon.
Subjects: Hawley, Joseph R. Durell, Edward H. Presidential elections -- United States -- 1860-1870.
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