1843 - 1901

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• Birth	21 Aug 1843	Corinna, Maine
  Gender	Male
  Died	4 Aug 1901	Greeley, Co
  Person ID	I29096	Brainard (Brainerd) / Foster / Fish
  Last Modified	30 Jan 2005 00:00:00
  Father	James HAWES, b. 12 Oct 1800, Penobscot, Maine
  Mother	Frances Hancock LAWRENCE, b. 1802, Castine, Maine
  Family ID	F11930	Group Sheet
  Family	Clementine Sarah ROCKWELL, b. Sep 1847, Canaan, Nh
  Married	22 Apr 1874
  Children	1. Mary Moneta HAWES, b. 1878
  Family ID	F11937	Group Sheet

• Notes

  Having enlisted with older brother Byron on September 12, 1861, he saw battlein Missouri, Arkansas, and Mississippi. He was a member of the 9th IllinoisCavalry. Wounded in 1862 at Jacksonport, Arkansas, later captured at Pontotoc, Mississippi. He was moved to different prisons, wound up at Cahaba Prison, Selma, Alabama and held for 9 months. After the war he studied at Unversity of Michigan from 1865 to 1868, received his M.D. from Long Island CollegeHospital, Brooklyn, NY in 1871. Did postgraduate work in antiseptic surgeryin Longdon, England and also studied in private practice of general medicineand surgery in London and Paris. Returning to the U.S. in 1872 he established a private practice of general medicine and surgery in Greeley, CO which lasted to the end of his life, d. in Greeley August 4, 1901. He also wrote a book called "Cahaba" detaling his experiences as a prisoner of war. This website has a story of the terrible circus train fire in which Jesse was on site and tried to help the victims. http://www.greeleytrib.com/history/stories/circustrain.html