G. C. Hawley

HAWLEY, ADAMS

Posted By: Diane (email)
Date: 2/24/2002 at 21:08:20

G. C. Hawley is a son of L. P. Hawley, and was born in Wayne county, Ohio, January 11, 1836. He remained in his native county until 1855 and then spent two years in Michigan. His mother died in 1844 and his father in 1852. In March of the year 1857, he came to Butler county, Iowa, and began working by the month.
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In 1862 he enlisted in Company F, Bissell’s Engineer Regiment, afterwards consolidated with the First Missouri Engineer Corps, and served until honorably discharged at the close of the rebellion. Upon again entering civil life, he returned to Butler county and located on section 4, of Shell
Rock township, where he now owns 100 acres of land. He was married in 1866 to Miss Eliza Adams, who is a native of Linn county, Iowa. In 1872 Mr. Hawley went to Montana, where he remained two years, working at his trade.
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Source: History of Butler and Bremer Counties, Iowa
Union Publishing Co., Springfield, IL, 1883
Page: 698