Simeon S. Hawkins
Simeon Smith Hawkins (March 30, 1827
Riverhead, Suffolk Co., NY) was an American manufacturer and politician from New York
.
Life
He was the son of Daniel Shaler Hawkins (1798–1868) and Sophia (Smith) Hawkins (1802–1841). He became a
U.S. Navy, and was captain of the bark Hannibal during the American Civil War. In 1870, he began the manufacture of fish meal and fish oil from menhadens
.
He was
Riverhead in 1870; a delegate to the 1880 Republican National Convention; a member of the New York State Assembly (Suffolk Co.) in 1884 and 1885; and a member of the New York State Senate (1st D.) in 1888 and 1889. In November 1889, he was defeated for re-election by his brother Edward Hawkins
who ran on the Democratic ticket.
Simeon S. Hawkins died on January 23, 1908, at his home in Riverhead, of "paralysis".
Sources
- The New York Red Book compiled by Edgar L. Murlin (published by James B. Lyon, Albany NY, 1897; pg. 403 and 503f)
- Biographical sketches of the members of the Legislature in The Evening Journal Almanac (1888)
- Simeon S. Hawkins at Sweezey Genealogy
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