Harrison County Iowa Genealogy

HISTORY OF HARRISON COUNTY, IOWA, 1915
BIOGRAPHIES
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URIAH HAWKINS

The first settler in eastern Harrison county and the second settler to invade the territory now compromising this county, was born in New York state in 1800. In 1835 he located in Jackson county, Iowa, remained until 1847 then moved to this county, landing in what is now Cass township and "squatted" on a quarter-section of government land for which he later paid one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre. When he arrived here Uriah HAWKINS had a family consisting of wife and five children. He came without means, save two yoke of oxen and two cows, but before his death he had accumulated a handsome competency. The date of his passing was September 29, 1869. He had been a faithful member of the church of the Latter Day Saints for thirty-eight years. His only son, Edward HAWKINS, was born in Jackson county, Iowa, in 1841, and accompanied his parents to Harrison county, landing July 10, 1847. He remained at home until twenty-seven years of age, then left and established a home of his own. In March, 1884, he married Lydia Ann Thorn THOMAS, a native of England, who came to this country in 1883.

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