2149. William Whitney HAWKES (516) was born on 7 Jun 1857 in Davenport, IA. He was educated M.D. in 1881 in Yale. He was an a faculty member at Yale Medical school between 1881 and 1920 in New Haven, New Haven County, CT. He died on 12 Apr 1930 in West Haven, CT. He died at a Yale vs Dartmouth baseball game. The terms of his will created a scholarship at Yale to aid worthy and deserving students of American Ancestry.
He was married to Jennie Welton PETTIS (daughter of George Clinton PETTIS and Nancy Emily WELTON) on 4 Jun 1890 in New Haven, New Haven County, CT. Jennie Welton PETTIS was born in Jun 1862 in CT. She died on 28 Aug 1950.
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