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Elijah Scott Willis Vincent
C.H. Dodge
Lewis J. Hall C.H. Dodge
Charles Crittenden J. Wm. Doane
Amos D. Taylor
Lewis W. Temple
Adna C. Bissell
J. A. Seymour Adna C. Bissell
Lewis W. Temple
Adna C. Bissell
C.F. Sears
A. D. Taylor I.C. Vincent
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H. C. Dodge
C. W. Gould W. T. Scott M. H. White =
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L. P. Hawks
F.R. Stiles
H. L. Raymond P. W. Hitchcock
1881 1882 1883 1884 1885-6 J. W. Doane 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 A. K. Sears 1895 1896 1897 A.K. Sears 1898 1899 C. W. Gould 1900 11 1901 1902 1903
1904 E. L. Eldridge
1905 1906 1907 1908 = 1909 1910 1911 1912 C. F. Sears 1913 1914 1915 1916 H. C. Dodge 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 : 1925 1926 M. H. White
H. C. Dodge
Geo. E. Sears
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H. L. Raymond
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Isaac C. Vincent Clinton H. Dodge Willis Vincent
J. A. Hitchcock E.S. Carter Lewis J. Hall J. W. Doane Foster R. King Amos D. Taylor Willis Vincent
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A. L. White Philip Stiles
Harry Clark
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Leon P. Hawks
John Brackett
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Roy T. Hunt
Robert White
Lee Roy Hunt
Melvin H. White Rollon Bellows
Leland Tinney
Harrison L. Raymond
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Harrison L. Raymond
Philip Stiles
Rollon Bellows
Harrison L. Raymond
Nov. 3, 1794, Theodore Sedgwick was chosen Representative to Con- gress from the Western District.
REPRESENTATIVES TO GENERAL COURT
1794-1798, 1800, 1802-1807, 1809-Edmund Longley.
1810-11 Zenas Bangs
1812-13-14, 1816- Thomas Longley.
1818 - Ebenezer Hall
1824 - Thomas Longley
1826 - Edmund Longley Jr.
1829 - Moses Smith
1832 - John Tobey
1833 - Edmund Longley Jr.
1836 - Calvin Cooley
1837-38 - John Vincent
1839-40 - Calvin Cooley
1841, 1843 - George Lathrop
1844 - Clark Sears
1847 - Thomas Longley
1849 - Nelson Joy
1850 - George Lathrop
1851 - Clark Sears
1853 - Nathan Vincent
1860 - John Vincent
1864 - Rev. Henry Seymour
1868 - Clark Sears
1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945
1946
1950 Philip L. Stiles
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1879 - Clinton H. Dodge
1893 - Lucius Hunt.
HAWLEY CHRONOLOGY
(Including many of the leading events of the town from its first survey and settlement to 1888 written by Wm. G. Atkins, printed in Greenfield Gazette and Courier, June 18, 1888. )
1774. 8064 acres of the present township granted by the Legislature to Broadstreet and Dennison, and known as the Hatfield Equivalent.
1762. June 2, township bought of General Court by Moses Parsons for L875.
1771. First settlement made by four families.
1772. First observance of Thanksgiving by seven families, or 22 persons, the entire population of the town.
1773. Oct. 18, first birth in town, that of Ethan Hitchcock.
1774. Zebedee Wood came from Bozrah, Ct. prospecting for a set- tlement.
1775. Five families settled from Bozrah, Ct.
1776. Population, Colonial census, 244.
1777. Feb. 4, Hollister Baker born.
1778. Sept. 16, first church organized with 20 members. First rec- ords of church.
1780. Edmund and Joseph Longley settled in town, coming from Gro- ton.
1782. Phineas Scott settled in town, coming from Whately.
1784. Zebedee Wood settled in town, coming from Bozrah, Ct.,
1785. Zebedee Wood built a house, later occupied by Frank Simpson, for a long time the oldest house in town.
1787. May 28, Warriner King born.
1790.
Population, 539.
1792. Feb. 7, town incorporated and named in honor of Hon. Joseph Hawley of Northampton.
April 2, organization of the town.
May 24, first observance of "Fast Day".
July 29, Rev. Dr. King born.
Nov. 2, first vote to build meeting house.
1793. May 6, voted to build seven school houses.
Oct. 24, Rev. Jonathan Grout ordained and installed as first minister.
1794. Edmund Longley sent as first Representative to the Legis- lature.
July 7, Nathan West appointed to provide a town stock of pow- der, lead and flints.
1795. Sept. 27, Rev. Jonathan Grout married to Polly Taylor of Buckland.
Bear killed near what was later the residence of Geo. K. Starks.
Mar. 5, George Lathrop born.
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1797. First meeting-house built.
1799. May 6, road accepted from Camp Rock to Savoy line. "There was a meeting house."
1800. Voted to pay 25¢ a day on highways. Population, 878.
1802. May 5, voted to remonstrate against a part of Hawley being set off to Plainfield.
1803. Capt. Jeremiah removed from Yarmouth to Hawley.
1804. May 29, Atherton Hunt born. Phineas Page settled in town.
1806. June, Asa Vining and family removed to Hawley from Wey- mouth.
1808. Committee sent with a petition to the President to suspend the embargo.
Moses Rogers killed in his mill.
Voted to pay 25¢ a head for crows killed.
1810.
Raised $300. for schooling. Population, 1031.
1811. April 9, Elisha L. Clark removed to town.
1816. Cold summer throughout New England. No corn ripened and breadstuffs were scarce and high.
1817. Town petitioned the General Court for assistance to build a bridge over Deerfield River.
1818. Mar. 6, adoption of code of rules regulating town meetings.
1820. Sept. 8, Sylvester Sears drowned. First Sunday school. Pop- ulation 1089.
1821. Oct. 19, Dr. DavidT. Vining born. First stoves used in meet- ing house.
1823. June, a son of Rev. Jonathan Grout drowned.
1824. May 3, Dr. Charles L. Knowlton born.
1825. First meeting-house built at West Hawley.
1826. Grasshopper year.
Leavit Hallock built a tannery.
1827. 1829. Aug. 20, George D. Crittenden born.
April 7, 1829 - Voted to buy a bass viol.
1830. Noah Joy built a hotel. Population 1037.
1832. May 26, postoffice established at South Hawley, Col. Noah Joy, postmaster.
1834. Company of State militia disbanded.
May 12, Rev. Tyler Thatcher installed.
Four families removed to "New Connecticut" in Ohio.
1835. June 6, Rev. Jonathan Grout died.
1838. Phineas Page and family removed to Pittsfield.
Voted that teachers shall be qualified to teach writing.
1840. May 20, Rev. Moses Miller installed at West Hawley. Popu- lation, 977.
1842. Nov. 29, Edmund Longley, Sr., died, aged 96.
1843. July 15, Thomas, son of Thomas Longley drowned.
1846. Feb. 28, Roswell Longley suicided.
Feb. 11, Leavitt Hallock's tannery burned.
1847. Both the present churches built.
Sept. - Barn of C. F. Crosby burned. 12 T. hay. Incendiary probably.
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1848. Nov. 11, Rev. John Eastman installed at West Hawley. Gen. Thomas Longley died, Sept. 22, aged 74. April 3, voted to build a town house.
Mar. - First church demolition started.
Building of present church begun, meetings held in basement of new building.
1849. Oct. 3, Rev. Henry Seymour installed at first church.
1850. Oct. 7, postoffice established at West Hawley, T.S. Allen, postmaster. Population, 881.
1851. April 7, voted to buy a town farm.
1853. "Black Laws" posted at town farm.
1856. June 30, Dea. Ebenezer Fales suicided at town farm.
Nov. 6, Dea. Rufus Sears died.
1857. April 20-21, three feet of snow fell.
1858. Aug. 18, Harlan H. Rice drowned at Hoosac Tunnel.
1859. July 2, terrific thunder shower.
1860. Population 671. Apr. 9-So. Hawley P.O. opened by Levi Hol- den.
1861-65Raised by town and private subscription for Civil War, $17,175. 00.
1861. October, several enlisted in 27th Regt.
November, several enlisted in 31st Regt.
1862. July 24, enlistments in 34th Regt.
Aug. 14, several enlisted in 37th Regt.
Sept. 4, 15 men enlisted in 52d Regt.
1863. Sept. 25, Edwin Scott appointed postmaster. Aug. 23, Otis Longley murdered at Lawrence, Kansas. 1865. Old Joy tavern burned.
1866. Jan. 15, postoffice at South Hawley discontinued. May 30, Ethan Hitchcock died.
Dec. 5, Levi Holden, Sr., died, aged 99.
1869. Oct. 4, great freshet throughout New England.
May 22, Rev. Dr. King died at Athens, Greece.
1870. Voted 25¢ an hour on highways. Population 672.
1872. Jan. 20, James Doane died.
Bassett house was built.
Now home of Mr. Harry Leibman.
1875. Population 588.
1877. Feb. 27, Warriner King died.
1879. Nov. 30, Freeman Atkins died.
1880. Population, 592. Total value of farm crops. $42.911. Pd. for printing of Town Reports - $10.00.
1882 .- Town pd. for a coffin $14.00.
1885. Population, 545. . .
1887, Valuation of town, $151, 274.
1887. . History of Hawley published by Wm. G. Atkins.
1888. Mar. 12-14, greatest snow storm of modern times, about four feet in depth.
1889. Nov. 1, William Kenny moved to the Otis Longley place, later the Edwin Cobb farm.
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1890. Aug. 23, the parish and church disbanded. The church took their place. Enos Harmon and Franklin Hunt were chosen deacons.
1891. Feb. 27, the pulpit of the First Congregational Church was re- placed by a broad platform and desk.
1893: June 11, Wilbur Scott returned from his visit to the World's Fair.
1894. Jan. 30, Rev. Henry Seymour died.
1895. Mar. 10, J. W. Doane purchased the old house on Poverty Square formerly used for a parsonage.
Dec. 4, M. V. Cressy discovered a vein of maganese on his farm. The vein was 25 ft. in width and of superior quality.
1899.
1898. Joshua Clark, who served in the Cuban War, returned home. June 6, Wood-turning shop and sawmill belonging to Willis D. Thayer, burned.
1900. Aug. , first gathering of "Sons and Daughters of Hawley" at the hone of Mrs. Frank Hillman.
1904. First piece of State road built in Hawley by Melvin H. White at a cost of $741. 57, beginning at the Charlemont-West Haw- ley town line.
1907. Oct., the First Congregational Society sold the parsonage to Herbert A. Holden.
1911. Feb. 23, Herbert A. Holden appointed postmaster at Hawley. Postoffice removed to his home.
1916.
1914. Oct. 16, paid Fred Stone for roofing on north side of Church, $79.40. Nov. 26, Mr. and Mrs. Lucius Hunt removed to Buckland to reside.
1917. Church steeple blew off. Not replaced.
1918. World War I. Two men called from Hawley, both served.
1923. Oct. 27, the property of the First Congreational church was turned over to the Mass. Home Missionary Soc. in Boston to be kept in trust for the church. Amount of cash, $1556. 33. 1924. Aug. 16, Boulder dedicated to the Sons and Daughters of Haw- ley, dedicated in front of the First Congregational church. Establishment of largest single farm in Franklin Co. by Wil- liam A. Pratt of Greenfield, located in Ashfield, Hawley and Plainfield. A stock breeding farm.
1927. Business of manufacturing railroad fusees established in West Hawley by Mr. F. Deane Carter.
1930. Jan. 30, death of Mrs. Georgianna B. Hillman, founder of the "Sons and Daughters of Hawley".
1931. Nov. 30, Postoffice at Hawley discontinued.
1935. Aug. 10, Boulder marking the site of the first church built in Hawley in 1797, dedicated.
1936. Sept. 3, Mrs. Emily T. Morton died, aged 104 yrs.
1937. K. of C. Camp for boys opened. John B. Basciano opened Chick- ley Alps for skiing on the farm known as the Melvin White or Roswell Baker farm.
1938. Sept. 18-21, Devasting flood's and hurricane, resulting in great damage to property, transportation facilities and communica- tion lines.
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1940. Mar. 6, 11 inches of snowfell. Mar. 2C, roads blocked, farni- ers had to melt snow for the stock to drink. Mar. 28, State plows unable to penetrate drifts. Apr. 3, State tractor finish- ed breaking out the main road in east part of town. Cement bridge built by Samuel Failla of Greenfield over Clessons Brook for $3563. 60. Oct., First electric power in East Hawiey. Aug. 27, Thomas T. Murkland of Boston built steel stringer bridge at Middle Road over Chickley River for $4436. 00.
1941. Jan. 21, Observation post No. 73 was tried out in the vestry of the church.
Dec. 7, outbreak of World War II. Thirty-four men from Haw- ley served, one Fernand P. Dostie, made the supreme sac- rifice.
1944. Mar. 12, Fernand P. Dostie reported missing in action in World War II.
1947. Electric power brought to West Hawley. Mrs. Louise Hale Johnson started to write the new history of Hawley.
1948. Beavers put in the Leland Gardner swamp.
1950. Nov. 25, Hurricane washed out roads in the west part of the Sept. 12, George H. Grout died in New London, Ct. He was great-grandson of Rev. Jonathan Grout who was the pastor of the First Congo. Church in Hawley for 42 years. Paid for printing Town Reports: $132.87.
No. of Polls, 70. Registered Minors, 40. Acres of land, 13, 793. Houses 119.
1951. Second History of Hawley.
CHAPTER 5
MILITARY RECORDS
The first record of the military history of Hawley is found in the early voting records. On July 7,1794, Nathan West was chosen to provide a town stock of powder, leads and flints.
At the time of the muster, the company maneuvered in the "Hawley mowing", what was later (1801) J. R. Smith's potato lot.
In the War of the Rebellion, the town furnished sixty-four men, twelve of whom were substitutes;of the town's men twelve were lost in the service, and three died after their return.
Civil War Records: The first enlistment from Hawley in the Civil War was that of Newell Rice, who joined the 10th Reg. May 3, 1861. Hawley was represented in all the regiments that went from western Mass. At the last enrollment more than half of the able bodied men liable to do military duty were in the field. Not only did the people respond to the country's necessities as soldiers, but contributed liberally in appropri- ations for State aid, bounties, clothing and other articles of comfort
Nov. 5, 1861, the town voted to abate all the town taxes assessed upon volunteers belonging to the town who have entered the service.
Aug. 29, 1862, Appropriated $300 for State aid to soldiers' fam- ilies.
act. 15, 1862, Voted to pay a bounty of $100 to each volunteer en- listing under the last calls of the president, and credited to the quota of the town.
Mar. 2, 1863, Appropriated $500 for St ate aid to families of vol- unteers.
Nov. 3, 1863, Appropriated $1, 059. 78 for volunteers.
Mar. 7, 1864, Voted to raise $1000 for State aid to soldiers' fam-
ilies.
Apr. 25, 1863, Voted to raise a sufficient sum to fill all quotas up to the present time, not to exceed $125 to each man. A similar vote was passed June 27th of that year.
Amount of money raised and paid by the town and private sub- scriptions, exclusive of state aid, $17,175. Amount raised and paid by the town and afterwards refunded by the state, $2, 842. 63.
The ladies of Hawley contributed $525 in clothing and other ar- ticles of comfort for the soldiers, which were forwarded by them to the front.
The following is a list of those who served in the Civil war as soldiers:
J. William Doane, enlisted Sept. 4,1862, in C. E. 52d Regt. He was promoted to corporal at Camp Miller, Greenfield, was discharged in Aug. 1863, returned to civil life, resided on the farm adjoining his birthplace.
Geo. C. Brayman, enlisted Sept. 4,1862, in Co. E. 52d Regt., He was wounded in the leg June 14, 1863, had the leg amputated, and died in the hospital at Baton Rouge, La., July 3, 1863.
Henry C. Damon, enlisted Sept. 4,1862, in Co. E., 52d Regt.,
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discharged Aug. 14,1863, became a farmer at Meriden, Ct.
Homer F. Damon, enlisted Sept. 4,1862, in Co. E, 52d Regt., discharged Aug. 14,1803, became a tinner at New Britain, Ct.
Edwin Warriner enlisted Sept. 4, 1862, in Co. E, 52d Regt., dis- charged Aug. 14, 1863, died June 15, 1882 of consumption.
David C. Clark enlisted Sept. 4,1862, Co. E, 52d Regt., dis- charged Aug. 14, 1863.
Lucius Hunt, enlisted Sept. 4, 1862 in Co. E, 52d Regt. He was sick in hospital, and was discharged July 17, 1863. by reason of disability. His brother Josiah went to Louisiana after him and brought him home. He resided at his birthplace in Hawley.
Nathan B. Baker enlisted Sept. 4, 1862 in Co. E, 52d Regt. Dis- charged Aug. 14, 1863, became a farmer in Savoy.
Theodore Marsh enl. Sept. 4,1862 in Co. E, 52d Regt., was discharged Aug. 14,1863, resided at Whitingham, Vt.
Noah Baker enl. Sept. 4,1862 in Co. E, 52d Regt. He was shot through the right side at the battle of Port Hudson, La., June 14, 1863. He died instantly and was buried where he fell.
Edwin Baker enl. Sept. 4,1862 in Co. E, 52d Regt. He was dis- charged Aug. 14, 1863 and became a druggist at Shelburne Falls.
Thomas A. Hall enl. Sept. 4,1862 in Co. E., 52d Regt. He died at Baton Rouge, La., Jan. 20,1863, of typhoid fever.
Elijah Harmon enl. Sept. 4,1862 in Co. E., 52d Regt., dis- charged Aug. 14, 1863 and became a clergyman in Wilmington, Mass.
Thaxter Scott enl. Sept. 4, 1862 in Co. E, 52d Regt., discharged Aug. 14, 1863, became a farmer in Hawley.
Clinton H. Dodge enl. Sept. 4,1862 in Co. E, 52d Regt. was discharged Aug. 14,1863, became a farmer in Hawley.
Otis B. Wood enl. June 14, 1861 in Co. H, 10th Regt., was pro- moted to Corporal Apr. 11, 1863 and Sergeant, May 1,1863. Resided at Turners Falls.
NewellS. Rice enl. May 3, 1861 in Co. E, 10th Regt. He followed the fortunes of his regiment till 1863, when he re-enlisted, receiving the veterans' bounty and served through the war. Removed to Ohio to reside. John H. Larabee enl. May 28,1861 in Co. B, 10th Regt. Served his term for enlistment and settled in the West.
Edwin B. Cobb enl. Oct. 1,1861 in Co. C, 27th Regt. discharged July 19, 1865, resided in Hawley.
Alfred L. Mantor enl. Oct. 1, 1861 in Co. C, 27th Regt. Killed in battle May 6,1864, at Petersbur, Va.
Francis W. Mantor enl. Oct. 1,1861 in Co. C, 27th Regt. Died of dyphtheria Oct. 3, 1862 at washington, D. C.
Luther Eddy enl. Oct. 1,1861, Co. C, 27th Regt.
Samuel Woofenden enl. Oct. 1,1861 in Co. C, 27th Regt.
Edmund Longley enl. Oct. 1,1861, in Co. C, 27th Regt. Died of consumption at New York, Sept. 7,1863.
John A. Grout enl. July 2, 1862 in Co. C, 27th Regt., was dis- charged July 19, 1865 and resided in California.
Charles H. White enl. July 2,1862 in Co. C, 27th Regt., dis- charged December 23,1863.
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William J. Sanford enl. Nov. 13, 1861 in Co. C, 31st Regt., later resided in Hartford, Ct.
Robert H. Eldridge enl. Nov. 21,1861 Co. B, 31st Regt. Taken prisoner at Brashaer City, July 3, 1863, and died July 6, 1863.
Albert Clark enl. April 30,1861, Co. H, 10th Regt. Lived in Hawley.
Clark F. Sprague enl. Nov. 22,1861 in Co. B, 31st Regt. Dis- charged June 18, 1862, on account of ill health and died March 25, 1863 of consumption, at his father's house in Hawley.
Asher B. Sprague enl. Nov. 22, 1861 in Co. B, 31st Regt., later resided at Hawley.
Henry C. Mason enl. Nov. 13,1861, in Co. B, 31st Regt. He was wounded in the thigh at Port Hudson plain, July 3, 1863, died in the hos- pital July 17 of chronic diarrhea.
Albert E. Marsh enl. Nov. 22, 1861 in C. B, 31st Regt. Discharged December 10,1864. Later resided at Northampton.
Chandler Hathaway enl. Oct. 15,1861 in Co. C, 31st Regt. Died at Baton Rouge, La., Mar. 12, 1863 of congestive chills and buried there.
Erastus S. Kinney enl. July 24,1862 in Co. F, 34th Regt., later settled in Ashfield and received a pension of $30. a month.
Chandler H. Blanchard enl. July 24, 1862 in Co. F, 34th Regt. He was wounded in battle in the leg and carried to the rear by a comrade, who had also been wounded. He later lived in Adams and carried a wooden leg.
Peter L. Baker enl. July 24,1862 in Co. F, 34th Regt. He was severly wounded in the th igh, but served out his tern, of enlistment. He was a splendid marksman and stated that during his term of service he pro- ably discharged his rifle 2000 times and never without taking careful and deliberate aim. He died at Bernardston, Jan. 8, 1877 of consumption.
Alonzo Helmes enl. July 24, 1862 in Co. F, 34th Regt.
Samuel M. Hall enl. July 24,1862, Co. F, 34th Regt. He was shot through the neck and instantly killed in battle.
Everett W. Blanchard enl. Oct. 1863 in Co. F, 34th Regt. While insane he was killed by jumping from a third story window in Annapolis, Md.
Freeman L. Cobb enl. Aug. 14,1862, in Co. H, 37th Regt. Prob- moted to Corporal.
Sidney P. Wood enl. Aug. 14,1862 Co. H, 37th Regt. Wounded in the shoulder at the battle of the Wilderness, Va., May 5, 1864, died in May at Fredericksburg, Va.
Edward Peck enl. Aug. 14,1862 in Co. H, 37th Regt. He was discharged Mar. 17, 1863 at camp near White Oak church by reason of disability caused by not properly recovering from measles. He returned home and died of consumption. Jan. 27,1865.
Edmund H. Sears enl. Aug. 14,1862 in Co. H, 37th Regt. Acci- dentally shot by a comrade near Spottsylvania Court House, Va., May 11,1864, on picket duty. Was brought home and buried in Hawley.
Ira Larkins enl. Aug. 14, 1862 in Co. H, 37th Regt. Appointed Corporal Aug. 15, 1862, appointed Sergeant March 1863, killed in battle, May 18, 1864, carrying the colors at Spottsylvania, Va.
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Albert Vincent enl. Aug. 14, 1862 in Co. H, 37th Regt. Appointed Orderly Sergeant Sept. 1,1862. Wounded May, 1863, commissioned Ist Lieutenant July 31, 1864. Commissioned Captain March, 1865.
Freeman Brackett enl. Aug. 14, 1862 in Co. H, 37th Regt. Ap- pointed Corporal Mar. 20, 1863. Died of typhoid fever at City Point, Va. July 10, 1864, brought home and buried in West Hawley.
Alonzo F. Turner enl. Aug. 14, 1862 in Co. H, 37th Regt. Wounded July 3, 1863, transferred to V.R. C. Later settled in Hawley.
William A. Hallock enl. Aug. 14,1862 in Co. K 23d Regt.
John Brown enl. Sept. 2,1864 in Co. C 17th Regt. He served only 8 months to the close of the war, saw no fighting or hard service, and received about $1100 as bounty, state aid and wages. Later settled in Kansas.
RECORD OF WORLD WAR II.
The names of those who served in World War II from Hawley as found on the Honor Roll are as follows:
Baldelli, Richard V.
Brown, Theodore H.
Dostie, Fernand P. A Gold Star.
Clark, Cecil E.
Dostie, Roland J.
Clark, Floyd F.
Dufresne, Leon F.
Clark, Lester T.
Flynn, Richard P.
Corey, Joseph
Fortune, James M.
- Gould, Elbert, served in U.S. Army, Oct. 23, 1947-June 23, 1948. Gould, Erwin F. , now serving in Occupational Forces in Germany.
Gould, Mark D., served in U.S. Army from Feb .. 1944 to Jan., 1946. Has "Purple Heart"
Gould, Richard M. , served in U. S. Army from - to Jan., 1946.
Haun, Harold A. Lopham, Roy
Hitchcock, Ernest D. MacDowell, Robert R.
Houle, Francis McGuinness, Gerald R.
La France, Ernest Michaud, Lewis
Libby, .ilton B. Miller, George N.
Libby, Elmer E. Miller, Woodrow H.
Libby, Lewis A.
Parker, Floyd A.
Libby, Reginald B. Parker, James L.
Raymond, Gerald T. Served from Mar. 11,1941 to Oct. , 1945. Tanquay, Archille.
Observation Post in Hawley during World War II.
Observation post #73 of the National Defense Program was organized Jan. 21, 1941. It was decided to locate the post in the vestry of the First Congregational Church. Leland Tinney was Chief Observer, Herbert A. Holden was Deputy Chief Observer. Observers. were: John Fisher, Felix Dostie, Desire Dostie, Joachim Dostie, Philip Stiles, Belle Bellows, Lewis Libby, Darwin Clark, Roy Hunt, Joseph Corey, Edmond Cousineau, Madge Clark and Bert White. Code. David 32.
During the year 1941 Leland Tinney resigned and Mrs. Herbert A. Hol-
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den was appointed Chief Observer. Observation was done from the door yard. On May 17,1942 a shelter was built just southwest of the Holden garage, with the Code: Ethel 84, which went into effect-Jan. 22, 1942. Later the Code was changed to: King 221.
The Post was closed May 29, 1944. When Mrs. Holden took over as Chief Observer, she appointed the following: First Asst. Chief Observer, Madge Clark. Second Asst. Chief Observer, American Legion Connection. Adjutant Theron S. Taylor of Charlemont.
The following served hours at the Observation Post:
Harrison Raymond
Mrs. Ethel Feder
Fernand Dostie
Rollon Bellows
Floyd Parker
Mrs. Madge Clark
Floyd Taylor
Mrs. Marion Snaida
Jacqueline Gendreau
Franklin Smith
Mrs. Wm. Cortis
Frank Sears
Mrs. Philip Știles
Mrs. Edmund R. Smith
Elvira M. Bellows
Harry Taylor
F. Deane Carter
Roland Dostie
Francis Houle
Mr. Robert Ogden
Leonard Fournier
Edmund R. Smith
Rollon Stiles
Carlos P. Squires
Theodore Brown
David Rice
Arthur Maynard Hobart Raymond
Albert Phelps
George Brown
Herbert A. Holden
Joachim Dostie
Richard Clark
Roy Hunt
Robert McDowell
Mrs. Robert White
Mrs. Eugene Cousineau
HONOR ROLL
Honor Roll in front of First Congregational Church In Hawley, including names of those who served in Civil War, World War I and World War II. Courtesy of Mrs. Herbert A. Holden
Secretary in the Crittenden family since 1874. Courtesy of Mrs. Ralph M. Robinson of Long- meadow, Mass.
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HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF HAWLEY
NATIVES ABROAD
At least twenty-five men from Hawley graduated from college, in the early days. Several young women graduated from Mt. Holyoke, Smith College and various Normal Schools. The town has furnished several teachers, both male and female. Julia A. Eastman, who was educated at the Seminary at Ipswich, was the author of several books, for one of which, "Striking for the Right", she recieved a prize of $1000. 00. Her sister, Sarah Eastman, graduated at Mt. Holyoke when it was known as "Holyoke Seminary". These two sisters established the school known as "Dana Hall" at Wellesley, which is an important preparatory school for girls today.
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