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3 unusual facts about Joseph Roswell Hawley


Joseph Hawley

Joseph Roswell Hawley (1826-1905), Governor of Connecticut, U.S. Senator and Congressman

Joseph Roswell Hawley

A few months after stepping down from that office, he bought the Hartford Courant newspaper, which he combined with the Press.

Hawley, a direct descendant of Joseph Hawley (Captain), first of the name in America, through Ebenezer, Joseph and Samuel, was born in Stewartsville, near Laurinburg, North Carolina, where Hawley's father, a native of Connecticut, was pastor of a Baptist church.



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