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for three years he was engaged in truck-
gardening. Subsequently, he purchased
a milk route and followed this line of
business for the remainder of his life.
Mr. Hawxhurst was an active and pub-
lic-spirited citizen, taking a keen interest
in all public affairs. In politics, Mr.
Hawxhurst was a Republican, and served
on the town committee and on the school
committee. For some years he served as
assessor, and was also several times engaged
to settle estates. He was a man of
high integrity, possessed of fine business
judgment, and absolutely trustworthy.
Fraternally, Mr. Hawxhurst was a member
of a Masonic order in Brooklyn. He
married Elizabeth Hawkins, daughter of
Captain Benjamin Hawkins, of Southport,
and they were the parents of eight chil-
dren :
I. Benjamin Nathaniel, of Sacra-
mento, California. 2. Charles Henry, of
further mention. 3. Mary J., married
Horace Fisher, of Norwalk. 4. Orlando
W., of Norwalk. 5. Phoebe, deceased,
wife of John Guyer. 6. Washington Irv-
ing, of Wilton. 7. Florence, wife of
Frank Guyer, of Norwalk. 8. Anna, wife
of Nathaniel Fisher, of Norwalk. Mr.
and Mrs. Hawxhurst were members of
the Methodist Episcopal church.
Charles Henry Hawxhurst, son of
Henry W. and Elizabeth (Hawkins)
Hawxhurst, was born March 4, 1865, in
Brooklyn, New York, and was educated
in the public schools of that city and of
Norwalk. At the age of fifteen years,
he went to work for his father in the milk
business and continued thus employed
until he was twenty-six years old, when
he succeeded his father as owner of the
business. It is the oldest and largest
business of its kind in Norwalk, and is
conducted under the name of the Clover
Leaf Dairy. With the exception of four
years, Mr. Hawxhurst has been continu-
ally in the business; during the latter
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period he was employed in the interests
of the Holmes, Keeler, Kent Company,
wholesale grocers, in which Mr. Hawx-
hurst had an interest. After this period
of four years, Mr. Hawxhurst returned
to his milk business, which he has continued
with gratifying success to the present
time.
In politics, he is a Republican, and takes
much interest in the affairs of that party.
He is a member of Our Brothers Lodge,
Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and
of the encampment, of which he is past
chief patriarch ; he
is also a member of
the Independent Order of Red Men.
Mr. Hawxhurst married Minnie Fran-
ces Lockwood, born March 9, 1869,
daughter of John and Sarah Isabelle
(Tuttle) Lockwood, and a direct descendant
of the immigrant, Robert Lockwood.
The mother of Mrs. Hawxhurst
was a daughter of Anson and Almira
(Abbott) Tuttle. Mr. and Mrs. Hawx-
hurst are the parents of a daughter,
Elizabeth Isabelle, and one son, Kenneth,
deceased. They are attendants of the
Methodist Episcopal church, of which Mr.
Hawxhurst is a member of the official
board.
McLEAN, William O.,
Insurance Actuary.
The origin of the name, McLean, is lost
in the mists of ancient tradition. Wil-
liam Buchanan, an old authority on the
origin of Scottish surnames, states that
the patronymic, McLean, is "descended
from that of Fitzgerald, in Ireland, being
once the most potent surname of any
other of English extract in that kingdom."
Irish genealogists claim that the Fitzger-
alds or Geraldines, were of Italian origin.
Certain it is that the family was estab-
lished in Normandy, before the Conquest.
Seignior Giraldo was a principal officer