Haw^ks, Francis Lister, D.D., an eminent min- ister of the Protestant Episcopal Church, was born at Newbern, N. C, June 10, 1798. He passed A.B. at the LTniversity of North Carolina in 1815 ; afterwards studied law, and ivas admitted to the bar m 1819. In 1823 he was elected to the Legislature of N.C., and soon became distinguished for eloquence. After a few years of verj"- successful practice as a lawyer, he determined to enter the ministrj-^, and became a student under Dr. Green, of HUlsboro' (afterwards bishop Green). In 1827 he was ordained deacon; and in 1829 became assistant to Dr. Croswell, rector of Trinity Church, New Haven, Conn. In the same year he was called to be assistant to bishop White, then rector of St. James's Church, Philadelphia. In 1830 he was elected professor of divinity in Wash- ington College (now Trinity), Hartford, Conn. ; in 1831 he became rector of St. Stephen's, New York, and at once was recognised as among the chief pidpit orators of the city. In the same year he was called to the rectorship of St. Thomas's Chiirch, N. Y. In 1835 he was elected missionary bishop of the South-west, but declined the appointment. In the same year the General Conven- tion appointed him to collect documents on the history of the Church, and to act as consen-ator of the same. He spent several months in England in 183G, and re- turned with eighteen folio volumes of manuscript, illus- trative of the planting and early historj' of the Protes- tant Episcopal Church. From these materials he pre- pared his Contributions to the Ecclesiastical History of the United States (vol. i, Virginia, 1836 ; vol. ii, IMary- land, 1839). It is greatly to be regretted that Dr. Hawks did not continue this valuable work. In 1837, in con- nection with the Eev. C. S. Henry, he established the New York Revieic, a quarterly journal of very high char- acter, of which ten volumes were published. In 1839 he founded a school called St. Thomas's Hall, at Flush- ing, L. I., and made heavy outlays upon the buildings, grounds, etc., which involved him in serious financial embarrassments, ending in the ruin of the school in 1843. He was charged with extravagance, if not with dishon- esty ; but no one now believes the latter charge. How- ever, he resigned his charge of St. Thomas's Church, and removed to Mississippi, where he established a school at Holly Springs. In 1844 he was elected bishop of iSIississippi ; objections were made on account of his troubles in connection with St. Thomas's Hall, but his vindication was so complete that the Convention adopt- ed a resolution declaring his innocence. Nevertheless, he declined the bishopric, and accepted the rectorsiiip of Christ Church, New Orleans, where he remained for five }-ears, during part of which time he served as pres- ident of the University of Louisiana. In 1849 he ac- cepted the rectorship of the Church of the Jlediator, New York, which was aftenvards merged in Calvary parish, of which he remained rector mitil 1862. His friends raised $30,000 to clear his church of debt, and adjust certain old claims from St. Thomas's Hall; they also settled upon him a hberal salarj-. Here he regain- ed his old pre-eminence as a preacher, and at the same time devoted himself to active literary labors. In 1852 he was elected bishop of Rhode Island, but declined the office. In 1862, owing to differences of opinion between him and his parish concerning the Civil AVar, he resign- ed the rectorship of Calvary ; and, after a short stay in Baltimore, he was called to take charge of the new par-
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ish of Our Saviour in New York. His last public labor was a service at the laying of the corner-stone of the new church, Sept. 4, 18(JG ; on the 'itith of that month lie died. Dr. Hawks's writings include, besides Line Re- ports, the following: Cimlributiims to the Ecclesiastical Jllstory of the United States (1836-39, 2 vols. 8vo) :—
I Commentary on the Constitution, ami Canons of the Prot-
\ estani Episcopal Church in, the United States (1841, 8vo) :
— E(/i/pt ami its Monuments (N. Y. 1849, 8vo) : — Auricu- lar Confession (1S49, V2mi)):^Documentarij History of the Prot.E. Church. ciDitiiiiiiiii/ Documents concerninr/ the
W Church in Connedinit (clitcil in connection with W. S.
Ij Perry, N. Y. 1863-4, 2 vols. 8\-o ) ; besides several histor-
ical and juvenile books. He also contributed largely to
j the New York Review, the Church Record, anil other pe-
riodicals.—.! mer. Quarterly Church Review, 18G7, art. 1 ; AUibone, Did. of Authors, i, 804. '
Ha'wley, Gideon, a Congregational minister, was born Nov. 5, 1727 (O. S.), in Bridgeport, Conn. He graduated at Yale College in 1749, and, having entered j the ministry, went to Stockbridgc in 1752 as missionaiy
j to the Indians. In May, 1753, in company with Timo-
thy Woodbridge, he started through the wilderness, and reached the Susquehanna at Onohoghgwage, where he planted a mission, but was compelled to leave it by the French War, May, 1756. Having returned to Boston, he went as chaplain under colonel Gridley to Crown Point ; and April 10, 1758, was installed pastor over the Indians at Marshpee, where he remained imtil his death, Oct. 3, 1807. — Sprague, Annals, i, 495.