San Joaquin County Biographies
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E. HENRY HAWKINS
A successful vineyardist whose progressive operations have furthered the advancement in California husbandry, is E. Henry Hawkins, a native of Maricopa County, Ariz., where he was born near Phoenix, on January 13, 1897. His father, Eugene Thomas Hawkins, was a farmer who had married Miss Sophie Elizabeth Lutgerding; he is living today, and is an agriculturist near Live Oak, in San Joaquin County. Henry Hawkins attended the grammar school in his district in Arizona, and later went to the Lodi grammar school, after his parents came to California in 1905. His parents had six children: Lena E., Erroll T., Ruby L., E. Henry, Imogene and June.
Mr. Hawkins had already gained practical experience in agriculture while working for his father, and in 1917 he began to make his own way in the world. He joined in partnership with his father and brother, Erroll T., and they rented two places southeast of Lodi, which they operated for two years. Then, at Lodi, on June 22, 1919, E. Henry Hawkins was married to Miss Hazel M. Lawry, who was born near Mokelumne Hill, in Calaveras County, the daughter of George C. and Sarah Lawry. Her father was a farmer and stockman, and he is still living today not far from Lodi, on his ranch near Harney Lane. She was reared and educated in Calaveras County, and enjoyed one year's study and training at the Lodi high school. Mr. and Mrs. Hawkins have one child, named Gerald H. After their marriage, they took a five years' lease of J.W. Wakefield's ranch, elsewhere described in this work. Mr. Hawkins is a consistent member of the Methodist Church in Lodi.
History of
SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY
CALIFORNIA
With A
Biographical Review
of
The Leading Men and Women of the County Who Have Been
Identified with Its Growth and Development
from the Early Days to the Present
HISTORY BY
George H. Tinkham
HISTORIC RECORD COMPANY
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
1923
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