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

Warren HAWLEY, farmer; P. O. Lockport; was born in Monroe Co., N. Y., July 8, 1812; his father, 
Lyman HAWLEY, was born in what is now the State of Vermont, Aug. 4, 1782; his mother, Althea H. 
MOORE, was born in West Hartford, Conn., Sept. 3. 1787. Lyman HAWLEY was among the early pioneers 
of Will Co., having come with his family in the Fall of 1835; he settled just south of where his 
son Warren now resides; here he led a quiet, useful life until April 29, 1844, when he rested 
from his labors. Warren HAWLEY was married in Elgin, IL., Feb. 14, 1839, to Louisa S. HEATH, a 
native of Connecticut; she came West in 1836; May 13, 1871, she passed peacefully away, leaving 
a devoted husband, two daughters and a son to mourn her loss - Mary L. (wife of Selah P. NORTH), 
Harriet L. (wife of Horace Cadwallader, of Dwight, Livingston Co.), and Edward W. (now shipping 
clerk for Ingraham, Corbin & May, of Chicago; Edward married Katie FRENCH, of Madison, Wis. 
Warren, like his father, Lyman, has never changed his residence since he came to Illinois; the 
land he owns today, 130 acres, passed from the Government into the hands of his father, and 
from his father to himself; here he has lived to see the 'Star of Empire" westward take its 
way, and the wave of emigration spread over the fair prairies beyond him, converting them into 
rich, productive farms, and where now an hundred fine residences adorn as many farms, when he 
first settled the eye could rest on no habitation of man; from his home west to Plainfield, a 
distance of eight or nine miles, not a house was to be seen, but all was a vast stretch of 
unbroken prairie. He held the office of Assessor one year. He owns 130 acres, valued at $8,000. 
Though past his three score years, he bids fair to live many years yet.