. Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees. 1, 1838. HAWLEY, Joseph Roswell Yale in Stewartsville, N. C, 1826; prepared forCollege in the Hartford, Conn., grammar schools andseminary at Cazenovia, N. Y.; graduated Hamilton,1847; taught school, studied law, and began practicein Hartford, Conn., 1850; entered politics with theorganization of the Republican party, 1856; aban- doned the law and became Editor of the HartfordEvening Press, 1857; r
. Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees. 1, 1838. HAWLEY, Joseph Roswell Yale in Stewartsville, N. C, 1826; prepared forCollege in the Hartford, Conn., grammar schools andseminary at Cazenovia, N. Y.; graduated Hamilton,1847; taught school, studied law, and began practicein Hartford, Conn., 1850; entered politics with theorganization of the Republican party, 1856; aban- doned the law and became Editor of the HartfordEvening Press, 1857; responded to the first call forvolunteers for the Civil War, 1861 ; mustered outBrevet-Major-General, 1866 ; elected Governor of Con-necticut, 1866 ; defeated for re-election and returned tojournalism. Editor of Hartford Courant and Press,1867; Member of Congress, 1872-75 and 1879-81 ; U. since 1881 ; President of the U. S. CentennialCommission. 1872-77; Hamilton 1875, Yale 1886,Trinity 1894. JOSEPH ROSWELL HAWLEY, , UnitedStates Senator, was born in Stewartsville,Richmond county, North Carolina, October 31,1826, of English-Scotch ancestry. His father, the. JOSEPH R. Rev. Francis Hawley, was a native of Farmington,Connecticut, descended from Samuel, who settledin Stratford, Connecticut, in 1639. His mother,Mary McLeod, a native of North Carolina, was ofScotch parentage. Francis Hawley removed to theSouth as soon as he became of age and engagedthere in mercantile business, later entering theBaptist ministry, and after fourteen years labor inNorth and South Carolina, bringing his family backto Connecticut. The sons education, begun in thedistrict schools of North Carolina, was continued inthe grammar school in Hartford, Connecticut, andlater in the Oneida Conference Seminary at Caze-novia, New York, on the removal of the family tothat place in 1842, where he prepared for College. 286 UNIVERSITIES AND THEIR SONS He was graduated with honors at Hamilton
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