The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-07-27
PERSONAL.

Mrs. E. /. Heath, accompanied by her
daughter, Mrs. Robert Chapman left the
city yesterday to spend a few weeks at
Bethel.
Bishop Nicely of Portland has engaged
rooms at the Bay View House, Old Orchard,
August I'd. After that date regular weekly
services will be conducted by him in that
hotel.
Drs. William Lawrence Dana and Addison
S. Thayer of this city have been appointed
assistant resident physicians and surgeons
at the Maine General Hospital and will enter
upon their duties August 1st.
In the course of the debate in the House
Saturday Mr.. Curtin, Democrat, said to Mr..
Reed Republican: "You are an organized
party ON that side, and we are not. You
move at the indication of the gentleman from
Maine (Mr. Reed and we do not move at the
indication Of anybody"
Mr.. S. S. Knight will be a candidate at the
coming Republican convention for Register
of Deeds. Mr.. Knight served for three years
in the army in the 10th and 10Th Maine regi-
ments, obtaining an excellent record. He
was seven years clerk in the Portland post
Office and ten years in the Railway Mail
Service, serving four years as head clerk,
and for two years has been at the head of
the Order of Good Templars in Cumberland
County.
A. B. Jewett and wife, st. Johnsbury, VT;
Col F. G. Barney and wife, Iowa; W. Fergu-
son and wife, Glasgow, Scotland; P. FL. Bor-
den and party, Fall River; G. B. Smith,
Toronto, Can. G. B. Sinsival, Covington,
KY; D. L. Yulee, Misses Yules, G. w.
Yule, Florida; Hon. A. P Wiswell Els
worth DR.. c. Fl. Titler, Philadelphia; III. K.
Fox, F. ]. Meehan, Baltimore, Md; H. M.
Heath, Augusta; j. A. Scott and wife, De-
troit, Mich. w. l.. Lowell, Boston; J. FL.
Vose, Boston; S. w. BRIGHAM and wife,
New York, were among those registered at
the Falmouth Hotel last night.
Dexter A. Hawkins died at the Fort Girls
void House, Groton, Conn.,, at 1890 a. m.
Saturday of heart disease. Mr.. Hawkins
came from an old New England family of
English origin. claiming descent from the
famous Admiral of the sixteenth century,
Sir John Hawkins. His grandfather,
native of Rhode Island, served in the Revolu-
ton, and his father, Henry, who went as
Methodist missionary to Maine, took up
arms in the war of 1872. Dexter was born in
Canton, Oxford county, in 1925. He studied
under his fathers tuition and mastered
mathematics and engineering so rapidly that
at the age Of sixteen he was appointed by
the county civil engineer to lay out public
road which was in dispute. He soon became
teacher of mathematics in Bethel Academy,
and afterwards in Bridgeton Academy. AT
the same time he studied the classics under
Moses Soule, and entered Bowdoin College
in 1874, being graduated in 184S with honors
and having paid, by his own labor, all the
expenses of his education. He was chosen
by the State Board Of Education lecturer up
on public instruction before the teachers in
stitutes of the State, a position which he
filled for four years, giving each year course
of forty-ive lectures. In 1849 he was princi-
pal of Topsham Academy and then, declining
the position of assistant professor of mathe-
MATES in New England college and of
secretary to the State Board of Education,
he begun the study of law in the office of
William Pitt Fessenden of this CITY, From
there he went to the Harvard Law School,
and afterward to the Law School in Paris.
In 1852 be went to London to study the Eng
fish courts. and while there received his first
fee of thousand dollars for successfully ter
minating the litigation of some American
clients which had been pending for thirteen
years. On returning to this country he be-
gan the practice of law in New York city,
being principally engaged in admiralty
cases. He entered into partnership with
Col. Rush c. Hawkins, and later he took as
his partner his son, Eugene d. Hawkins. Mr..
Hawkins was one Of the prominent members
of the committee of seventy that exposed
and prosecuted the Tweed ring. When that
work was accomplished he labored hard in
exposing eXtravaganceS in the administra-
ton of city charities. He also wrote for
several papers concerning city taxation and
city legislation. and wrote a pamphlet OPP
posing the granting of State aid to Catholic
schools. He took great interest in the public
schools, and was the author of the compul-
sorry education law. In politics Mr.. Haw-
kins was an ardent Republican and was
member Of the Union League Club. He
leaves widow, one son, his law partner, and
two unmarried daughters.