1914
Charley Hawker
Charley
Hawker owns and operates a tract of land comprising two hundred acres on
section 5, Hazel Green township, were he carries on general
farming and stock raising with excellent success. His birth occurred in
In 1882,
when a young man of twenty-three years, Charley Hawker crossed the Atlantic to
the United States and made his way direct to Iowa, locating in Delaware county.
During the first nine years of his residence in the new world he was employed
as a farm hand and subsequently cultivated rented land for three years. On the
expiration of that period he purchased his present place of two hundred acres
in Hazel Green township and has been busily engaged in its operation continuously
since. He cultivates the cereals best adapted to soil and climate and also
devotes considerable attention to stock raising, this
branch of his business contributing materially to his annual income. He has erected
all the buildings on his farm and has made other improvements which greatly
enhance its value and attractiveness.
On the 8th
of July, 1888, Mr. Hawker was united in marriage to Miss Amelia Steinkopf, a daughter of Fred and Martha (March) Steinkopf, by whom he had twelve children, as follows: John,
who is deceased; Emma, the wife of George Meyer, of Littleport,
Iowa; Clarence; Paul; Edith; Bertha; Carl; Minnie; George; Herbert, who has
passed away; Amelia; and Edgar.
Mr. Hawker
is a stanch republican in politics but has never sought nor desired office as a
reward for his party fealty. In religious faith the family
are Lutherans. Our subject has never had occasion to regret his determination
to seek a home in
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