The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-03-18
The DEATH OF GEN. HAWLEY.
THE END CAME At 1850 GCLOC'K
TINS INCOMING. ..
Ills Career as Fditsr. rs One IL the FCul.
ders e the Republican Party, as Sci.
dieF and in the senate--Fleoted Gov.
ernOF n ISOG-Latciy ETlEadier.

HIS Career as Fditer. rs One ~ the FCu1'
ders e the Republican Parry as Sol
dieF and In the Senate--Eleoted Gov
ernOr 10 ISOG-Lateiy E(lEadier
WASHINGTON, MIR iT.-Gen. Hawley
died at 1850 this morning. ,...
Joseph Roswell Hawley was born in
StewartsIlle, n. C.. in 1926 OF scotch
English ancestry. His father was the
Rev. Francis Hawley, Connecticut born,
and his mother was a North Carolina Mac
LeOd. The son prepared for college at the
Hartford Grammar School and at the
SET mary in Cazenova, y. Y. He was
graduated from Hamilton College In Is47
with a considerable reputation for a college
boy as a speaker and debater. He taught
school in the winters and studied law,
being admitted to the bar in 1850. He
Immediately entered the political arena
becoming cf6rman OF the Free Soil State
committee and speaking in every canvass
He. stoutly opposed the Know Nothings
and devoted his energies TO the union Of
all opponents Of slavery.
The first meeting for the organi zation
Of the Republican party In Connecticut
was held at his call, in his Office, on Feb.
4, 1860. A year later Mr.. Hawley abandoned
his law practice TO become editor Of the
Hartford Evening Press, then distinctively
Republican paper.
He responded to the first call for troops
at the outbreak Of the war by drawing
up form Of enlistment and assisting in
raising Rife Company A, First Connecticut
Volunteers, It's services were accepted
twenty-four hours after it was organized.
Mr.. Hawley went with the company to the
front as its Captain and received favor
able notice almost Immediately for his
conduct in the battle Of Bull Run. He
helped organize the Seventh Connecticut
Volunteers and became Lieutenant Colonel
OF Il. He was in command Of his regimAnt
in the battles Of James Island and Pocotag-
lilo and in Brannan's expedition to Florida.
In September, 1884, after he had been in
many engagements, :he was made BriRa-
dier-General. In October Of the next year
he went home and was brevetted Major
General. He was not music. ed out until
january, 1850.
In April Of that year he was elected Gov
ernor Of Connecticut, but was defeated
when he came up again in 1897. Then he
resumed his editorial work uniting the
Hartford Press and the CourdRt Both
on the stump and in his newspapers he en-
tered into the political contests Of the day,
With even greater vigor than he had dis
played before the war. He was elected
president Of the national Republican con-
vention In 1893, was secreta y Of the COM
mittee on resolutions in 1872 and chairman
OF that committee in 1870 In November,
1872 he was elected to fill a vacancy in
Congress, caused by the death of Julius
l.. Strong. He was reelected to the Forty
third Congress, defeated for the Forty
fourth and Forty-fifth and elected again
10 the Forty-siXth. He was elected Senator
in 1881 by the unanimous vote OF his party,
and served continuously until March 4
last when he was succeeded by Morgan @.
President Roosevelt nominated
him to be Brigadier-General on the retired
list and the Senate confirmed the nomi-
nation.
Gen. Hawley received the degree Of LII.
D. from Hamilton and Yale. He was re-
garded as one Of the best extemporary
speakers in the country.