HAWK, Robert Moffett Allison, a Representative from Illinois; born near Rushville, Hancock County, Ind., April 23, 1839; moved with his parents to Freedom Township, Carroll County, Ill., in 1844; attended the common and select schools of Carroll County, Ill., and Eureka (Ill.) College; studied law but never practiced; entered the Union Army during the Civil War as first lieutenant September 4, 1862; promoted to captain on January 1, 1863; brevetted major April 10, 1865; moved to Mount Carroll, Ill., in 1865 and engaged in agricultural pursuits; clerk of the court of Carroll County, Ill., from December 13, 1865, to February 27, 1879; elected as a Republican to the Forty-sixth and Forty-seventh Congresses and served from March 4, 1879, until his death in Washington, D.C., June 29, 1882; interment in Oak Hill Cemetery, Mount Carroll, Ill.