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EUGENE HENRY HAWKINS
A successful vineyardist, whose
progressive operations have furthered the advancement in California husbandry,
is E. Henry Hawkins, a native of Maricopa County, Arizona, 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, 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,
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.
Transcribed by V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Pages
1508-1509. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2012 V. Gerald Iaquinta.
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