Biography of  John L. Hawk, pages 427 / 428.  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.

   John L. Hawk, the senior member of Hawk Brothers, millers, at Mongo, was 
born in DeKalb County, December 20, 1864, and was a small child when brought 
to Mongo.  He was one of the first class to complete the work of the eighth 
grade in the local schools.  For a time he was in a mercantile concern at 
Mongo, and also worked in the grist mill under his brother William.  In 1904 
he and his brother Eli bought the Mongo mills, He also assisted in organizing 
the Mongo State Bank and is one of the stockholders.  He is a republican and 
is a charter member of the Mongo Lodge, Knights of Pythias, which was 
instituted February 24, 1891.
   May 19, 1908, he married Miss Moore, of Marion, Indiana. They have no 
children of their own, but adopted Charles E. Allen at the age of five 
months.  This boy was born January 2, 1912, a grandson of Charles Allen, 
who at one time was engaged in the drug business in LaGrange.
   Christopher, L. Hawk, father of the Hawk Brothers, was born in 
Wuertemberg, Germany, in March, 1821, a son of Christopher J. and Ellen 
(Crawford) Hawk.  The mother died in 1823 and in 1825 Christopher Hawk, 
Sr., married Lena Bopp.  In 1831 the family came to America, and after 
three years in Holmes County moved to Hancock County, Ohio, and in 1858 
settled in DeKalb County, Indiana. In 1868 they established their home in 
Mongo, where the family have been prominent residents for over half a 
century.  Christopher Hawk, Sr., died at Mongo, March 10, 1882, at the age 
of ninety-two years, four months and five days.  His wife died November, 
27, 1888.
   Christopher L. Hawk married Miss Sarah Wycoff on June 3, 1847, She was 
a daughter of Casper B. and Catherine (Johnson) Wycoff, natives of New 
Jersey. Christopher L. Hawk and wife were active members of the Baptist 
Church.  He began the milling business at the age of eighteen, and worked 
at wages of $6 a month. Until he was twenty-four years of age he gave all 
his earnings to his parents. At this marriage he had a capital of only 
$60. About 1850 he bought eighty acres of land, and sold this farm in Ohio 
in 1858 for $2,300. On coming to Indiana he bought a flouring mill in 
DeKalb County on the St. Joseph River, and some ten years later the saw 
and gristmill property at the Village of Mongo, where he conducted a very 
successful business for a number of years.  Christopher L. Hawk died in 
1907 and his wife on November 25, 1915, at the age of ninety-two.  They 
were the parents of nine children: George W., born April 23, 1848, and 
died November 3, 1854; William C., born March 9, 1850; Charles Franklin, 
born January 18, 1852; Hannah Catherine, born June 23, 1855; and died 
November 5, 1855; John L., born December 20, 1864; Eli Zeno, born April 
24, 1868; Mary E., born July 24, 1856, wife of O.G. Long, of Sturgis, 
Michigan; Anna S., born November 12, 1858, widow of Charles E. Dickinson, 
of White Pigeon, Michigan; and Sarah E., born March 26, 1862, wife of 
Alfred A. Wade, of Howe, Indiana.
   Christopher  Hawk, Sr., by his second marriage had the following 
children: Hannah, Fredericka, George, Samuel, Pauline, William, Amelia, 
Mary and Susan

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