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Mary Clark Hawk
Mary Gertrude Clark was born near Eureka, February 12, 1841, daughter of Robert M. and Cynthia M. Clark. Her father was one of the original trustees of Eureka College. Among her first teachers was Professor A. S. Fisher, under whose efficient instruction she continued until her graduation in 1861. During her senior year she taught in the Preparatory department of the college, and continued teaching in Eureka's public schools until 1865, when she married Major R. M. A. Hawk, 92nd Reg. Ill. Vols., to whose home in Mt. Carroll
she removed and there has since lived.
| Major Hawk was County Clerk of Carroll county for twelve years, resigning to accept a seat in the Forty-sixth National Congress as a Republican representative from the Fifth district of Illinois. On the eve of a renomination for a third term in Congress he was suddenly stricken down at his post of duty, in the strength of a vigorous and noble manhood. Left thus alone, Mrs. Hawk bravely devoted herself to the rearing and education of her children -a daughter and two sons. Her son, Harry, class '85, was the first child of a member of the Alumni to graduate from Eureka College—the first grandchild of his mother's Alma Mater.
The names of Prof. A. S. Fisher and Dr. J. M. Allen, two of his mother's instructors, appear on his diploma. |
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Mrs. Hawk has always been an ardent supporter of Eureka College and its interests, and feels a personal pride in the welfare of the institution.
Source:
A History of Eureka College, St. Louis: Christian Publishing
Company, 1894.
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