Will County ILGenWeb Biographies..... 
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Author: History of Will County, Illinois; Chicago: Wm LeBaron Jr & Co, 186 Dearborn Street, 1878.

Robert HAWLEY, farmer; P. O. Wilmington; was born in Buckinghamshire, England, in 1822, and is 
the son of John and Fannie HAWLEY; who died when he was very young; was raised among strangers; 
at 14 years of age, he worked his passage on a lumber vessel to Quebec, Canada, and remained in 
Canada about two years; thence to America; here he spent his time in traveling in different parts 
of the United States; came to Illinois in 1844, and engaged in working on a farm in Kendall Co. 
about eighteen months; in 1847, he settled on the farm he now lives on, in Custer Twp., Will Co.; 
states that there was no house between him and Wilmington; country very wild. In October 1861, he 
enlisted as private in Co. F, 9th IL Cav.; this regiment was principally on scouting duty, and 
did good service; was mustered out at the close of the war, at Selma, Ala., in 1865; returned to 
his farm and remained here ever since. Married Miss Sarah Ann BURD, of New Jersey. Mr. H. is about 
the oldest settler of Custer Twp.