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of wood engraving and of first printing presses. His collection of books from tlie first fifteenth cen- tury presses illustrating the early history of wood- cutting and first printers, is the most compre- hensive one in the United States and ranks sixth or seventh in importance in the world. He is the author of: Tlie United States in Account icith the Bebellion ; Statement of Rush C. Hawkins (1872); Report Relating to the Cause and Increase of the City Debt (1876) ; First Books and Printers of the Fifteenth Century (1884) ; Gen. John Wolcott Phelps of Vermont (1885) ; Horrors in Architectxire (1886) ; Early Coast Operations in North Carolina (1887) ; The Rev. Aaron Hutchinson, A. 31. (1888); Report on the Fine Arts at the Universal Exposition held in Paris in 1SS9 (1891) ; Better Than Men (1896) ; TTie Assassination of Loyal North Carolinians for Serving in the Union Army (1897), and many mag- azine articles.

HAWKINS, William, governor of North Caro- lina, was born in Warren coimty, N.C., in 1770; son of Col. John Hawkins; and grandson of Col. Philemon Hawkins, who was born in Gloucester county, Va., Sept. 28, 1717, settled in Bute (afterward Warren) county, N.C., was an aide to General Tryon in the battle of Alamance, and with 1000 men vanquished 2000 "Regulators," and the same year served as colonel in the Ameri- can army in the Revolutionary war and was a member of the convention that ratified the Fed- eral constitution and of the convention that framed a state constitution. William was edu- cated in the log schoolhouse of the time. He was elected a member of the house of commons of the state in 1804, was speaker, 1805, governor of the state, 1811-14, and an active supporter of the war of 1812, himself taking the field in the defence of Beaufort and Newbern. He was a trustee of the University of North Carolina, 1803-19. He died at Sparta, N.C., May 17, 1819.

HAWKINS, William George, clergyman and writer, was born in Baltimore, Md., Oct. 23, 1823; son of John Henry Willis and Rachel (Thompson) Hawkins. His father was a celebrated temper- ance lecturer and reformer. William was grad- uated at Wesleyan vmiversity, A.B., 1848, and at the Theological seminary of the diocese of Virginia, B.D., in 1851. He was ordained a deacon and priest in the P.E. church and was rector of churches in Maryland, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, New York and Nebraska. As rector of the Messiah, Glens Falls, N.Y., 1851-57, he built a stone church; and as rector of Trinity, Chambersburg, Pa., 1868-73, he also built a stone church. He held the first missionary service at Gettysburg, Pa., resulting in the establishing of the church of the Prince of Peace in 1872, edited the National Freeman, 1863-66; was elected chap- lain of the inebriate asylum, Binghamton, N.Y.,

in 1874; was rector of the English and classical school, Beatrice, Neb., 1885-90, and became rector of St. John's church, W^ellfleet, Neb., in 1890. He received the honorary degree of A.M. from Trinity in 1856. He is the author of: Life of J. H. W. Hawkins (1859); Lumsford Lane (1863); History of the New York Freedman's Association (1868); Letters from Europe in the Nebraska State Journal (1887), and Young America in the North- icest (1888).

HAWKS, Cicero Stephens, first P.E. bishop of Missouri and 44th in succession in the American episcopate, was born in Newbern, N.C., May 26, 1812; grandson of John Hawks of England, who came to North Carolina with Gov. William Tryon in 1765 ; and brother of the Rt;v. Francis Lister Hawks. He was graduated at the Uni- versity of North Carolina, A.B., in 1830, and A.M., in 1834. He studied law but forsook it for the- ology, studying under the Rev. George W. Free- man, afterward 2d missionary bishop of Arkansas. He was ordained deacon, Dec. 8, 1834, and priest, July 24, 1836, by Bishop Onderdonk. He had charge of the church of the Ascension, Esopus, N.Y., 1834-36; of Trinity church, Saugerties, N.Y., 1836-37; of Trinity church, Buffalo, N.Y., 1837-43 ; and of Christ church, St. Louis, Mo. ,11843- 44. He was elected bishop of the newly formed diocese of Missouri, and was consecrated Oct. 20, 1844, by Bishops Chase, Kemper, McCoskry, Polk and DeLancey. Christ church presented him in 1849 with a purse of $3000 in recognition of his services during the cholera epidemic of that year, and the citizens of St. Louis gave him a residence on Paul street. He received the degree of D.D. fi"om the University of Missouri in 1847, and also received that of LL.D. He edited Boys and Girls Library and Library for my Young Country- men, and wrote Friday Christian, or the First Born of Pitcairn Island, and articles in periodicals. He died in St. Louis. Mo., April 19, 1868.

HAWKS, Francis Lister, educator, was born in Newbern, N C, June 10, 1798; one of nine children, and grandson of John Hawks, who came to America with Gov. William Tr\-on of North Carolina in 1765. He was graduated at the Uni- versity of North Carolina, A.B., 1815, with honors, and received the degree of A.M. from Yale in 1818 and from his ahua mater in 1824. He studied law under Judge William Gaston of Newbern and practised there and in Hillsboro, N.C. He was reporter of the supreme court of the state, 1820-26, a member of the house of commons of the state in 1821, and an orator of note. He was married in 1823 to Miss Kirby of New Haven, Conn., who died in 1827. He abandoned the law to study divinity under the Rev. William Mercer Green, then rector of St. Matthew's church, Hillsboro, and later bishop of Mississippi, He was lay reader