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Chester Warner Hawley
Birth: 1835
Death: 1-23-1902
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Chester Warner Hawley was born in Hawley, Massachusetts to Isaac and Persie (Ball) Hawley. He attended the Auburn Theological Seminary in the late 1850s and during this time he was also employed by the Young Ladies Institute where Frances "Fanny" Seward received instruction from him in Latin. Fanny described him thus in her 1858-1859 diary: "Mr. Hawley my new Latin Master I dislike excessively, his person is positively filthy he is so unclean a student for the Ministry too!" During the American Civil War, Hawley served as a chaplain with the 185th Regiment of the New York Infantry.
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Chester Warner Hawley was born in Hawley, Massachusetts to Isaac and Persie (Ball) Hawley. He attended the Auburn Theological Seminary in the late 1850s and during this time he was also employed by the Young Ladies Institute where Frances "Fanny" Seward received instruction from him in Latin. Fanny described him thus in her 1858-1859 diary: "Mr. Hawley my new Latin Master I dislike excessively, his person is positively filthy he is so unclean a student for the Ministry too!" During the American Civil War, Hawley served as a chaplain with the 185th Regiment of the New York Infantry.