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

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