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The Hawkes Papers: A Case Study of a Kansas Mortgage Brokerage Business, 1871–1888

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 July 2012

Glenn H. Miller Jr.
Glenn H. Miller Jr.
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Graduate Student in Economics at Harvard University
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Abstract

Much of the capital to finance economic growth flowed from East to West in numerous trickling streams, having as their source the middle-income professional class and as their destination the small farmer. Uniting such borrowers and lenders were middlemen like Charles M. Hawkes, whose operations — here described in detail — were characterized by direct cognizance, financial mobility, deliberate restriction, and great prudence in the face of a shifting, hazardous market.

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Business History Review , Volume 32 , Issue 3 , Autumn 1958 , pp. 293 - 310
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Copyright © The President and Fellows of Harvard College 1958

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References

1 Clark, T. D., “Records of Little Businesses as Sources of Social and Economic History,” Bulletin of the Business Historical Society, Vol. XIX, No. 5 (Nov., 1945), p. 155.Google Scholar

2 Bogue, Allan G., “The Land Mortgage Company in the Early Plains States,” Agricultural History, Vol. 25, No. 1 (Jan. 1951), p. 21.Google Scholar For some excellent case studies of both borrowers and lenders in the period by the same author see Money At Interest (New York: Cornell University Press, 1955).

3 C. M. Hawkes to Messrs. Donaldson and Fraley, St. Louis, Missouri, Jan. 23, 1872.

4 C. M. Hawkes to Mrs. Rebecca Clarke, Norridgewood, Maine, June 8, 1875.

5 C. M. Hawkes to Mrs. E. P. Abbott, Boston, Massachusetts, May 4, 1883.

6 C. M. Hawkes to Elder Elijah Myrick, Ayer, Massachusetts, Dec. 7, 1886.

7 C. M. Hawkes to G. F. Parmelee, Topeka, Kansas, Sept. 3, 1873.

8 C. M. Hawkes to Miss Huldah Hawkes, Portland, Maine, June 19, 1874.

9 C. M. Hawkes to G. F. Parmelee, Topeka, Kansas, June 26, 1874.

10 C. M. Hawkes to W. F. Foster, Norway, Maine, May 20, 1875.

11 C. M. Hawkes to Mrs. Rebecca Clarke, Norridgewood, Maine, June 8, 1875.

12 C. M. Hawkes to Mrs. H. M. Wheeler, Woodford, Maine, May 12, 1876.

13 C. M. Hawkes to Messrs. Kollock and Chenault, Peabody, Kansas, July 18, 1877.

14 C. M. Hawkes to Mrs. Rebecca Clarke, Norridgewood, Maine, June 8, 1875.

15 C. M. Hawkes to M. A. Jordan, Minneapolis, Kansas, Feb. 19, 1878.

16 C. M. Hawkes to C. J. Smith, Fredonia, Kansas, May 12, 1881.

17 C. M. Hawkes to Elder J. P. Vance, Alfred, Maine, Jan. 19, 1882.

18 C. M. Hawkes to Messrs. Fultz and Miliard, Wellington, Kansas, March 21, 1882.

19 C. M. Hawkes to H. O. St. John, Washington, D. C, Sept. 12, 1883.

20 C. M. Hawkes to Blackwood and Co., Sterling, Kansas, March 18, 1887.

21 C. M. Hawkes to Elder J. P. Vance, Alfred, Maine, Feb. 16, 1878.

22 C. M. Hawkes to Elder Simon Atherton, Ayer, Massachusetts, Jan. 8, 1881.

23 C. M. Hawkes to W. F. Foster, Norway, Maine, Feb. 18, 1882.

24 C. M. Hawkes to Elder Simon Atherton, Ayer, Massachusetts, Jan. 8, 1881.

25 C. M. Hawkes to Thomas Hookey, Junction City, Kansas, Feb. 23, 1878.

26 Idem.

27 C. M. Hawkes to Mrs. E. P. Abbott, Boston, Massachusetts, May 4, 1883.

28 C. M. Hawkes to W. J. Moore, Olathe, Kansas, Jan. 15, 1881.

29 C. M. Hawkes to W. F. Foster, Norway, Maine, Feb. 19, 1881.

30 C. M. Hawkes to Major Watson Stewart, Independence, Kansas, March 1, 1878.

31 C. M. Hawkes to Messrs. Stevens and Cowgill, Fredonia, Kansas, June 18, 1877.

32 C. M. Hawkes to J. P. Ennis and Co., Topeka, Kansas, Aug. 26, 1875.

33 C. M. Hawkes to Elder Thomas Damon, Thomsonville, Connecticut, Jan. 27, 1876.

34 C. M. Hawkes to Mrs. Rebecca Clarke, Norridgewood, Maine, June 8, 1875.

35 C. M. Hawkes to J. P. St. John, Olathe, Kansas, July 14, 1875. St. John, later to be come governor of Kansas, is first referred to in these letters in May, 1875. The two were later to develop some degree of friendship, based largely on their mutual interest in the establishment of prohibition in Kansas.

36 C. M. Hawkes to Edward Fox, Portland, Maine, April 10, 1876.

37 C. M. Hawkes to Wm. Eckert, Howard City, Kansas, Feb. 16, 1878.

38 C. M. Hawkes to Major Watson Stewart, Independence, Kansas, March 1, 1878.

39 C. M. Hawkes to A. T. Eby, Howard City, Kansas, March 1, 1878.

40 C. M. Hawkes to Major Watson Stewart, Independence, Kansas, March 13, 1878.

41 C. M. Hawkes to J. P. Vance, Alfred, Maine, May 19, 1880.

42 C. M. Hawkes to H. J. Wheeler, Woodford, Maine, Sept. 20, 1878.

43 C. M. Hawkes to Rev. W. J. Alger, Saco, Maine, Oct. 23, 1878.

44 C. M. Hawkes to Messrs. McDonald and Phelps, Miltonvale, Kansas, Feb. 23, 1885.

45 C. M. Hawkes to Messrs. Hawkes and Hawkes, Lincoln, Kansas, May 21, 1886.

46 C. M. Hawkes to S. N. Havvkes, Stockton, Kansas, Dec. 9, 1887.

47 C. M. Hawkes to Elder Otis Sawyer, Alfred, Maine, Jan. 23, 1882.

48 C. M. Hawkes to W. F. Foster, Norway, Maine, Feb. 18, 1882.

49 C. M. Hawkes to W. F. Foster, Norway, Maine, July 14, 1875.

50 C. M. Hawkes to Capt. David A. Hawkes, Lewiston, Maine, Aug. 9, 1878.

51 C. M. Hawkes to W. F. Foster, Norway, Maine, Feb. 18, 1882.

52 Clark, Elmer T., The Small Sects in America (Rev. ed.; New York, 1949), p. 145.Google Scholar

53 C. M. Hawkes to Elder Thomas Damon, Thompsonville, Connecticut, Jan. 27, 1876.

54 C. M. Hawkes to J. P. Vance, Alfred, Maine, Jan. 21, 1876.

55 C. M. Hawkes to Elder Simon Atherton, Ayer, Massachusetts, Jan. 8, 1881.