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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.

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Source Citation National Archives and Records Administration (NARA); Washington, D.C.; Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records (Provost Marshal General's Bureau; Consolidated Enrollment Lists, 1863-1865); Record Group: 110, Records of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Civil War); Collection Name: Consolidated Enrollment Lists, 1863-1865 (Civil War Union Draft Records); NAI: 4213514; Archive Volume Number: 1 of 3 Source Information Ancestry.com. U.S., Civil War Draft Registrations Records, 1863-1865 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Original data: Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registrations, 1863-1865. NM-65, entry 172, 620 volumes. NAI: 4213514. Records of the Provost Marshal General’s Bureau (Civil War), Record Group 110. National Archives at Washington D.C.
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