Biography of Eli Zeno Hawk,  page 427.  History of Northeast Indiana; 
LaGrange, Steuben, Noble and DeKalb Counties, Vol. II, under the editorial 
supervision of Ira Ford, Orville Stevens, William H. McEwen, and William H. 
McIntosh.  The Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago and New York, 1920.

   Eli Zeno Hawk is one of a family of millers who have been conspicuous in 
the affairs of LaGrange County for many years.
   Mr. Hawk was born in DeKalb County, April 24, 1868, and in August of the 
year of his birth his parents moved to Mongo, where he has lived now for 
over half a century.  He had a public school education at Mongo, and as a 
boy began working in his father’s mill and also under his brother William, 
when the latter was manager.  In 1904 he and his brother John bought the 
mill at Mongo, a business that has since been conducted under the firm name 
of Hawk Brothers.  Mr. hawk was also one of the organizers and director of 
the Mango State Bank.  He is a  republican in politics
   In June, 1906, he married Miss Lula Sisson, daughter of John and Martha 
Sisson, of a family noted elsewhere.  Mr. and Mrs. Hawk have one child, 
Wilbur E., born March 12, 1914.

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Arlene Goodwin
Auburn, Indiana
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