Samuel N. Hawkes

The following data is extracted from A Standard History of Kansas and Kansans.

Assistant attorney-general of Kansas with a residence at Topeka, Samuel N. Hawkes is one of the older members of the Kansas bar, and had been in active practice in various parts of the state for more than thirty years. He came to Kansas with a training and education received at one of the oldest eastern universities, and his career had been one of uninterrupted success and influential partieipation in the life of his own community and the state.

He was born at Portland, Maine, May 8, 1861, a son of Charles M. and Susan A. (Whitney) Hawkes. His father, who was a wholesale shipper at Portland, up to 1870 and afterwards in the brokerage business there until 1875, moved his family in the latter year to New Haven, Counectlcut, in order to educate his children. New Haven was his homo the rest of his life.

Reared in Portland, Maine, and New Haven, Connecticut, Samuel N. Hawkes followed his course in the common schools with preparatory work at Hopkins Grammar School in New Haven, and in 1879 was matrioulated in Yale University. He graduated B. A. in 1883, and two years later received his law degree LL. B. from the same university.

Shortly after his graduation he came to Kansas, and practiced at Topeka and Lincoln Center until 1887, when he established his home at Stockton. Mr. Hawkes still maintains an office in Stockton and was in active practies there until January, 1911, when he became assistant attorney-general of the state. For three terms he served as county attorney, and was also city attorney of Stockton.

Politically he is a republican, is a Chapter degree Mason and Modern Woodman of America. He is a member of the Congregational Church and belongs to the Saturday Night Club of Topeks. In 1897 he married Edna Pierce of Stockton. Mrs. Hawkes died October 6, 1909, leaving three children: Helen Pierce, Ruth Augusta and Edua Susanna.

Source: A Standard History of Kansas and Kansans

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