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FRANCIS LISTER HAWKS (1798-1866)

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 99 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FRANCIS LISTER HAWKS (1798-1866)  ,
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American clergyman, was born at
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Newbern, North Carolina, on the loth of
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June 1798, After practising law with some distinction he entered the Episcopalian
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ministry in 1827 and proved a brilliant and impressive preacher, holding livings in New Haven,
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Philadelphia, New York and New Orleans, and declining several bishoprics . On his appointment as historiographer of his church in 1835, he went to England, and collected the abundant materials afterwards utilized in his Contributions to the Ecclesiastical
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History of U.S.A . (New York, 1836-1839) . These two volumes dealt with
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Maryland and Virginia, while two later ones (1863-1864) were devoted to
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Connecticut . He was the first president of the university of
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Louisiana (now merged in Tulane) . He died in New York on the 26th of September 1866 .

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