Imperial County, CA Biographies

Transcribed by Sally Kaleta, January, 2007.

This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives
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JAMES HOLLIDAY HAWKINS
 
                   Energy and well-directed ambition, guided and controlled by 
good judgment, have constituted the foundation upon which John H. Hawkins has 
built his success. He is a native of Van Alstyne, Texas, and his birth occurred 
November 22, 1887, a son of Jesse and Laura Hawkins. His father was a native of 
Mississippi and his death occurred twenty years ago. Mr. Hawkins' mother passed 
away in 1915. John H., the subject of this review, attended the public schools 
of Texas. His father was a rancher and dealt in cattle quite extensively. At the 
age of sixteen Mr. Hawkins started out in life and readily found employment on 
the ranches of Texas, New Mexico and Colorado. In 1905 he came to California and 
followed various vocations, and in 1915 he purchased an eighty-acre farm, which 
he has mostly in alfalfa. Mr. Hawkins was united in marriage with Katherine 
Harvey, a native of Oregon. By a former marriage Mrs. Hawkins has two children: 
Roy, aged twenty, and Hazel, aged fifteen. Fraternally Mr. Hawkins is a member 
of the I. O. O. F. of Imperial and formerly held membership in the Woodmen of 
the World. Mr. Hawkins has achieved success in life as a result of his own 
efforts, as he started out in life as a result of his own efforts, as he started 
out in life without influential friends or financial aid.
 
Source: "The History of Imperial County, California," Elms and Franks Publ. Co., 
1918, p.463.