HAWLEY, GEORGE N.; dealer in musical instruments; Monmouth; is a son of a pioneer physician in the State, was formerly a teacher, served as a soldier in the Civil War, and is active as a Republican and as a member of the Baptist Church.
He was born in Union County, Ohio, October 26, 1841, and was reared at Waldron, Kankakee County, Ill.., and educated there and at Franklin College, Ind., where he took the degree of A. B. His parents were Dr. Samuel and Elizabeth (McCloud) Hawley, who were born, reared and married in Ohio, and, in 1852, settled where Dr. Hawley practiced his profession thirty-five years" and died in 1887. His wife died at Onarga, Ill., in 1896, leaving four children: George N.; Celia, who is the wife of Dr. Turner, a dentist, of New York; Mrs. Victoria McCain, of Onarga; and Foster, of Peoria.
After his graduation, George N. Hawley taught school some years at Kankakee and Momence, Ill., and Devil's Bluff, Ark.
In 1862 he enlisted at Kankakee, in Company F, Seventy-sixth Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, as a private, and was promoted successsively too Third, and First Sergeant, and finally commissioned Second Lieutenant by Governor Oglesby, August 4, 1865. His regiment, which was included in the Army of the West, participated in the siege of Vicksburg, the battle of Jackson's Cross Roads, the siege of and charge on Fort Blakeley, and other important engagements and movements. Mr. Hawley was honorably discharged from the service at Galveston, Tex., in 1865, and re-enlisted in a colored regiment, with the quartermaster's department of which he was connected about four months. He is a member of McClanahan Post, No. 330, Grand Army of the Republic, and was a charter member of Maple City Camp, No. 94, Modern Woodmen of America.
He came too Monmouth in 1884, and was agent, for the United States Express Company 1 i 11 1900. He established his present business in 1888.
At Momence, in 1867, he married Jennie Mackrell, who was born near Burlington, Ohio, and was a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas M. Mackrell. Mr. Mackrell died August 15, 1849, in Agency City, Iowa.
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He was born in Union County, Ohio, October 26, 1841, and was reared at Waldron, Kankakee County, Ill.., and educated there and at Franklin College, Ind., where he took the degree of A. B. His parents were Dr. Samuel and Elizabeth (McCloud) Hawley, who were born, reared and married in Ohio, and, in 1852, settled where Dr. Hawley practiced his profession thirty-five years" and died in 1887. His wife died at Onarga, Ill., in 1896, leaving four children: George N.; Celia, who is the wife of Dr. Turner, a dentist, of New York; Mrs. Victoria McCain, of Onarga; and Foster, of Peoria.
After his graduation, George N. Hawley taught school some years at Kankakee and Momence, Ill., and Devil's Bluff, Ark.
In 1862 he enlisted at Kankakee, in Company F, Seventy-sixth Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, as a private, and was promoted successsively too Third, and First Sergeant, and finally commissioned Second Lieutenant by Governor Oglesby, August 4, 1865. His regiment, which was included in the Army of the West, participated in the siege of Vicksburg, the battle of Jackson's Cross Roads, the siege of and charge on Fort Blakeley, and other important engagements and movements. Mr. Hawley was honorably discharged from the service at Galveston, Tex., in 1865, and re-enlisted in a colored regiment, with the quartermaster's department of which he was connected about four months. He is a member of McClanahan Post, No. 330, Grand Army of the Republic, and was a charter member of Maple City Camp, No. 94, Modern Woodmen of America.
He came too Monmouth in 1884, and was agent, for the United States Express Company 1 i 11 1900. He established his present business in 1888.
At Momence, in 1867, he married Jennie Mackrell, who was born near Burlington, Ohio, and was a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas M. Mackrell. Mr. Mackrell died August 15, 1849, in Agency City, Iowa.
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HAWLEY, GEORGE N.; dealer in musical instruments; Monmouth; is a son of a pioneer physician in the State, was formerly a teacher, served as a soldier in the Civil War, and is active as a Republican and as a member of the Baptist Church.
He was born in Union County, Ohio, October 26, 1841, and was reared at Waldron, Kankakee County, Ill.., and educated there and at Franklin College, Ind., where he took the degree of A. B. His parents were Dr. Samuel and Elizabeth (McCloud) Hawley, who were born, reared and married in Ohio, and, in 1852, settled where Dr. Hawley practiced his profession thirty-five years" and died in 1887. His wife died at Onarga, Ill., in 1896, leaving four children: George N.; Celia, who is the wife of Dr. Turner, a dentist, of New York; Mrs. Victoria McCain, of Onarga; and Foster, of Peoria.
After his graduation, George N. Hawley taught school some years at Kankakee and Momence, Ill., and Devil's Bluff, Ark.
In 1862 he enlisted at Kankakee, in Company F, Seventy-sixth Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, as a private, and was promoted successsively too Third, and First Sergeant, and finally commissioned Second Lieutenant by Governor Oglesby, August 4, 1865. His regiment, which was included in the Army of the West, participated in the siege of Vicksburg, the battle of Jackson's Cross Roads, the siege of and charge on Fort Blakeley, and other important engagements and movements. Mr. Hawley was honorably discharged from the service at Galveston, Tex., in 1865, and re-enlisted in a colored regiment, with the quartermaster's department of which he was connected about four months. He is a member of McClanahan Post, No. 330, Grand Army of the Republic, and was a charter member of Maple City Camp, No. 94, Modern Woodmen of America.
He came too Monmouth in 1884, and was agent, for the United States Express Company 1 i 11 1900. He established his present business in 1888.
At Momence, in 1867, he married Jennie Mackrell, who was born near Burlington, Ohio, and was a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas M. Mackrell. Mr. Mackrell died August 15, 1849, in Agency City, Iowa.
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He was born in Union County, Ohio, October 26, 1841, and was reared at Waldron, Kankakee County, Ill.., and educated there and at Franklin College, Ind., where he took the degree of A. B. His parents were Dr. Samuel and Elizabeth (McCloud) Hawley, who were born, reared and married in Ohio, and, in 1852, settled where Dr. Hawley practiced his profession thirty-five years" and died in 1887. His wife died at Onarga, Ill., in 1896, leaving four children: George N.; Celia, who is the wife of Dr. Turner, a dentist, of New York; Mrs. Victoria McCain, of Onarga; and Foster, of Peoria.
After his graduation, George N. Hawley taught school some years at Kankakee and Momence, Ill., and Devil's Bluff, Ark.
In 1862 he enlisted at Kankakee, in Company F, Seventy-sixth Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, as a private, and was promoted successsively too Third, and First Sergeant, and finally commissioned Second Lieutenant by Governor Oglesby, August 4, 1865. His regiment, which was included in the Army of the West, participated in the siege of Vicksburg, the battle of Jackson's Cross Roads, the siege of and charge on Fort Blakeley, and other important engagements and movements. Mr. Hawley was honorably discharged from the service at Galveston, Tex., in 1865, and re-enlisted in a colored regiment, with the quartermaster's department of which he was connected about four months. He is a member of McClanahan Post, No. 330, Grand Army of the Republic, and was a charter member of Maple City Camp, No. 94, Modern Woodmen of America.
He came too Monmouth in 1884, and was agent, for the United States Express Company 1 i 11 1900. He established his present business in 1888.
At Momence, in 1867, he married Jennie Mackrell, who was born near Burlington, Ohio, and was a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas M. Mackrell. Mr. Mackrell died August 15, 1849, in Agency City, Iowa.
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