Ferdinand B. Hawes

Hawes was born in Fox Lake, Wisconsin on 11 October 1858 and died, accidentally, on 26 October 1908.  He was educated in the Wisconsin Soldiers’ Children’s School and was taught the trade of cobbler.  Afterward, he graduated from the State Normal School and taught school until 1900.
     “Then in the belief, as he expressed it, that the world has but little use for superannuated school teachers, he left the Superintendency of the Olympia [Washington]  Schools be enter business in Everett, where he continued until his accidental death …. He hated and combatted sham.  He had a lively humor and a tender sentiment.  These qualities show in the essays, speeches, letters, and poems.”

— Washington Historical Quarterly, 1916, p. 173, located by Adam Seaman.

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