Cyril Hawkins letters to father, William Hawkins, 1850 - 1853

1850-1853

Cyril Hawkins papers

BANC MSS 2016/193, Box 1, Folder 3

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English

The Bancroft Library

Cyril Hawkins (May 6, 1832-June 21, 1902) was born in McConnelsville, Ohio. He was the younger son of Colonel William Hawkins (1796-1868), a Democratic politician from Ohio who served in the Ohio state senate. Cyril traveled to California in 1851 and worked as a gold miner, sign painter, grocery clerk and civil servant, including as a clerk for the California Secretary of State. Hawkins returned to Ohio via Panama in March, 1865 and died in McConnelsville in 1902. In California, he followed his father's footsteps into politics, working his way up the ranks in the new Republican Party, eventually serving in the first state legislature of Nevada, as a clerk in the U.S. House of Representatives, a customs agent in Niagara Falls, and as a presidential elector from Ohio in 1896.

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