Lenville Hawkes collection, 1931-1984.

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Lenville Hawkes collection, 1931-1984.

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Materials chiefly relating to Hawkes's trip from Maine to Washington, D.C., including excerpts from an interview with Hawkes, letters to and from Hawkes regarding his journey to Washington, D.C., scrapbook including newspaper clippings of the trip, obituary, and photographs of Hawkes and his oxen.

.25 linear ft.

Maine Historical Society Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7419862

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Maine. Department of Agriculture

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Hawkes, Lenville, 1909-1984

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Chicken farmer, of West Cumberland, Me.; skilled in driving oxen and hired, during the Depression, by the Maine Dept. of Agriculture to drive a team of oxen through New York and Philadelphia to deliver a cart of Maine potatoes to President Herbert Hoover in 1931. From the description of Lenville Hawkes collection, 1931-1984. (Maine Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 401722456 ...

Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964

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Herbert Clark Hoover (b. August 10, 1874, Iowa-d. October 20, 1964), thirty-first president of the United States, was born in Iowa, and was orphaned as a child. A Quaker known from his childhood as "Bert" to his friends, he began a career as a mining engineer soon after graduating from Stanford University in 1895. Within twenty years he had used his engineering knowledge and business acumen to make a fortune as an independent mining consultant. In 1914 Hoover administered the American Relief Com...