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Education: Brother Hawes was a Demosthenian while a student at The University of Georgia. He also played baseball for the University’s freshmen team. He joined the Kappa Deuteron Chapter of Phi Gamma Delta and was initiated between January and April of 1886 and was chapter secretary in 1886.
In 1887, as a junior, Hawes was the recipient of the “Charles McDonald Brown Scholarship,” which was established in 1881 by former Georgia Gov. John E. Brown in the memory of his son - a member of the Class of 1878 who died while a student at Georgia. Gov. Brown initiated the scholarship to assist a student or students who was “of some financial need,” and who is “bright, of good moral character, apt to learn, in reasonable health and ambitious, to prepare themselves for usefulness.” Hawes graduated from The University of Georgia in 1888 with a Bachelors of Art degree.
“History of the University of Georgia,” by Thomas Walter Reed; Chapter IX: The Administration of Chancellor Patrick H. Mell, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, ca. 1949, p. 1277 of the original typed manuscript:
WILLIAM HAWES, of Warrenton, Ga., was a young man of most commanding physical appearance, handsome and popular. He was a member of the Demosthenian Society and the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity. For a number of years, he was a well-known figure in the field of Georgia journalism and also served as a member of the Georgia legislature.
Brother Hawes was a son of Dr. Ellington Cody Hawes, Sr., a graduate in medicine of the University of Pennsylvania, a Baptist, Democrat and Mason. Dr. Hawes represented McDuffie County in the Georgia Legislature in 1884 and 1885. He was a son of Peyton Hawes. The Ellington Cody Hawes Medical Scholarship at the University of South Carolina for students from Georgia at the USC School of Medicine is named for him. Brother Hawes nephew was Richard Ellington Hawes, Rear Admiral, U.S. Navy, for whom in 1984, the guided missile frigate U.S.S. Hawes was named.
Career: Brother Hawes was an attorney, journalist and associated with real estate and insurance enterprises. He was the editor and publisher of The Warrenton Clipper newspaper of Warren County, Georgia, beginning about 1894. In 1905, he sold the Clipper, according to The Augusta Chronicle, Augusta, Georgia, Monday, July 24, 1905, p. 4:
THE WARREN COUNTY REPORTER: After eleven years pencil-pushing, during which time he never solicited or published a whiskey advertisement, our genial friend, Col. W. M. Hawes, has disposed of his dear old friend, The Warrenton Clipper, lock, stock and barrel, to Mr. J. L. Dowling, of Abbeville, Ga.
The Clipper, under Hawes’ ownership, was called by The Atlanta Constitution of May 17, 1894 “one of the best weekly papers in Georgia.”
In 1895, attorney Hawes represented future U.S. presidential nominee and future U.S. Sen. Thomas E. Watson in litigation challenging the results of Watson’s unsuccessful campaign for election to the 10th Congressional District of Georgia against incumbent U.S. Rep. James Conquest Cross Black, wherein Watson alleged voter fraud and intimidation of black voters.
Hawes was elected to represent Warren County in the Georgia House of Representatives in 1896, but chose not to seek re-election at the conclusion of his term. Among the bills he introduced while serving in the Georgia General Assembly was legislation to require all jails be provided with heaters for prisoners during winter months.
As an attorney in private practice, William Mosely Hawes argued before the Georgia Supreme Court and was an unsuccessful candidate for solicitor-general of the newly formed Toombs Circuit (Glascock, Lincoln, Taliaferro Warren, and Wilkes counties) in 1912.
By 1917, Hawes and his wife were living in Tampa, Florida, where he was in the real estate and insurance business. Hawes was living in Chicago, Illinois by about 1920 (see the 1920 census of Cook County, Illinois.) In this census, his occupation in this census is given as “solicitor insurance company.” He and his wife were living on Clarendon Avenue, a few blocks west of Montrose Beach on Lake Michigan and north of Wrigley Field. Brother Hawes died in 1921 in Birmingham, Alabama. It is not clear whether he was visiting or living in that city at the time.
Some sources reference him as “Colonel” but the source of that military or honorific title is unknown; even his marriage certificate of 1896 names him as “Col. Hawes.”
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There are familial, marital and genealogical ties to the Hawes family with Pope and Tate families of Brothers Frederick B. and Nathanial H. Pope and of Ora Eugene Tate as well as the Cody and Goree families, related to Brothers Emmett Cody and Churchill Pomeroy Goree.
In 1887, as a junior, Hawes was the recipient of the “Charles McDonald Brown Scholarship,” which was established in 1881 by former Georgia Gov. John E. Brown in the memory of his son - a member of the Class of 1878 who died while a student at Georgia. Gov. Brown initiated the scholarship to assist a student or students who was “of some financial need,” and who is “bright, of good moral character, apt to learn, in reasonable health and ambitious, to prepare themselves for usefulness.” Hawes graduated from The University of Georgia in 1888 with a Bachelors of Art degree.
“History of the University of Georgia,” by Thomas Walter Reed; Chapter IX: The Administration of Chancellor Patrick H. Mell, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, ca. 1949, p. 1277 of the original typed manuscript:
WILLIAM HAWES, of Warrenton, Ga., was a young man of most commanding physical appearance, handsome and popular. He was a member of the Demosthenian Society and the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity. For a number of years, he was a well-known figure in the field of Georgia journalism and also served as a member of the Georgia legislature.
Brother Hawes was a son of Dr. Ellington Cody Hawes, Sr., a graduate in medicine of the University of Pennsylvania, a Baptist, Democrat and Mason. Dr. Hawes represented McDuffie County in the Georgia Legislature in 1884 and 1885. He was a son of Peyton Hawes. The Ellington Cody Hawes Medical Scholarship at the University of South Carolina for students from Georgia at the USC School of Medicine is named for him. Brother Hawes nephew was Richard Ellington Hawes, Rear Admiral, U.S. Navy, for whom in 1984, the guided missile frigate U.S.S. Hawes was named.
Career: Brother Hawes was an attorney, journalist and associated with real estate and insurance enterprises. He was the editor and publisher of The Warrenton Clipper newspaper of Warren County, Georgia, beginning about 1894. In 1905, he sold the Clipper, according to The Augusta Chronicle, Augusta, Georgia, Monday, July 24, 1905, p. 4:
THE WARREN COUNTY REPORTER: After eleven years pencil-pushing, during which time he never solicited or published a whiskey advertisement, our genial friend, Col. W. M. Hawes, has disposed of his dear old friend, The Warrenton Clipper, lock, stock and barrel, to Mr. J. L. Dowling, of Abbeville, Ga.
The Clipper, under Hawes’ ownership, was called by The Atlanta Constitution of May 17, 1894 “one of the best weekly papers in Georgia.”
In 1895, attorney Hawes represented future U.S. presidential nominee and future U.S. Sen. Thomas E. Watson in litigation challenging the results of Watson’s unsuccessful campaign for election to the 10th Congressional District of Georgia against incumbent U.S. Rep. James Conquest Cross Black, wherein Watson alleged voter fraud and intimidation of black voters.
Hawes was elected to represent Warren County in the Georgia House of Representatives in 1896, but chose not to seek re-election at the conclusion of his term. Among the bills he introduced while serving in the Georgia General Assembly was legislation to require all jails be provided with heaters for prisoners during winter months.
As an attorney in private practice, William Mosely Hawes argued before the Georgia Supreme Court and was an unsuccessful candidate for solicitor-general of the newly formed Toombs Circuit (Glascock, Lincoln, Taliaferro Warren, and Wilkes counties) in 1912.
By 1917, Hawes and his wife were living in Tampa, Florida, where he was in the real estate and insurance business. Hawes was living in Chicago, Illinois by about 1920 (see the 1920 census of Cook County, Illinois.) In this census, his occupation in this census is given as “solicitor insurance company.” He and his wife were living on Clarendon Avenue, a few blocks west of Montrose Beach on Lake Michigan and north of Wrigley Field. Brother Hawes died in 1921 in Birmingham, Alabama. It is not clear whether he was visiting or living in that city at the time.
Some sources reference him as “Colonel” but the source of that military or honorific title is unknown; even his marriage certificate of 1896 names him as “Col. Hawes.”
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There are familial, marital and genealogical ties to the Hawes family with Pope and Tate families of Brothers Frederick B. and Nathanial H. Pope and of Ora Eugene Tate as well as the Cody and Goree families, related to Brothers Emmett Cody and Churchill Pomeroy Goree.
