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Biographical History of Cherokee County, Iowa
W. S. Dunbar & Co., Chigago - 1889

[page 401]

     R. C. HAWN, deceased, late of Silver Township, was widely and
     favorably known in Cherokee County. He was born July 13, 1820, in
     Mifflin County, Pennsylvania, and is a son of Daniel and Elizabeth
     (Smiley) Hawn. He lived in the county of his birth until sixteen
     years of age, when he went with his parents to Clarion County,
     Pennsylvania. There he grew to manhood, and learned the carpenter's
     trade. He was married February 13, 1843, to Miss Elmira Magee, who
     was born and reared in Clarion County. She is a daughter of John
     and Sarah (Frampton) Magee. In 1855 Mr. Hawn made a trip to Iowa,
     settled in Davenport,


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     remaining there two years. At the end of that time he removed to
     Muscatine County, Iowa, living there for the same length of time.
     In 1859 he went to Jones County, Iowa. When there was a call from
     men during the great Rebellion, he enlisted in September, 1862, in
     the Thirty-first Iowa Volunteer Infantry, Company H. He served as
     hospital carpenter on the hospital boat, The City of Memphis. This
     position he held for nine months. For a time he was in Captain
     Shanks' command in the Quartermaster's department of the Army of
     the Southwest. He was in the battle of Arkansas Post, and entered
     Vicksburg on the day of the surrender. He was with Sherman on his
     march to the sea, and at one time was hauling ammunition in the
     ordnance train in the front of the battle. He was honorably dis-
     charged in July, 1865, and returned to his home in Jones County.
     In 1870 he came to Cherokee County, and settled on eighty acres
     of wild land, residing there until his death, which occurred August
     8, 1888. Mr. and Mrs. Hawn reared four children: D. B. and J. M.,
     residents of Silver Township; Henrietta, wife of M. L. Dial, of
     Sioux City, (she has six children), and Mrs. Sarah M. Steiner
     (deceased), wife of F. P. Steiner (deceased), who left three chil-
     dren. Mr. Hawn affiliated with the Republican party. He served his
     township as trustee, justice of the peace, and as assessor, with
     much credit to himself. He was a member of the General Custer Post,
     No. 25, G.A.R. He was a worthy member of the Methodist Episcopal
     Church, and one of the reliable and representative citizens of the
     county. His widow resides on the homestead with her son, D. B. Hawn,
     D. B. Hawn, the eldest son of R. C. and Elmira (Magee) Hawn, was
     born in Clarion County, Pennsylvania. In 1870 he came with his par-
     ents to Cherokee County, and purchased 120 acres of wild land in
     Silver Township. He has brought this land from the natural state
     in which he found it to one of high cultivation, and has erected a
     dwelling, a good barn, and other buildings necessary for the pro-
     tection of grain and live-stock. He has planted a grove, which is
     a beautiful ornament to the place. Mr. Hawn also owns 120 acres of
     land in Griggs Township, Ida County. In political thought and action
     he is Republican. He is a man yet in the prime of live, is intelli-
     gent and progressive, and is one of the leading citizens of the
     township.

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