American Medical Biographies/Hawes, Jesse
Hawes, Jesse (1843–1901).
Jesse Hawes was born in Corinna, Maine, August 21, 1843, and practised chiefly in Greeley, Weld County, Colorado, his death occurring there from angina pectoris, August 4, 1901.
He had prepared to enter Bowdoin College when the Civil War broke out and he enlisted at once in the ninth Illinois cavalry, the family having shortly before moved to that state. He served through the war, being confined in Cahaba Prison for nearly a year, an experience he embodied in "Cahaba," a volume published about 1890.
From 1865 to 1868 he studied in the University of Michigan and graduated M. D. from Long Island College Hospital in 1871. For some time afterwards he studied in Edinburgh, Scotland, but the exact date is not known.
In 1874 he married Clementine Rockwell, and one child, a daughter, Mary Moneta, was born.
He was president of the Colorado State Medical Society in 1884 and professor of obstetrics in the University of Denver for some years.
He wrote many brief articles upon surgical subjects, published in the "Transactions of the American Medical Association of the Colorado State Society." His "Report upon Charlatanism in Colorado" appeared in their Transactions for 1883.
At the beginning of his practice in Greeley Dr. Hawes lost several cases in succession from puerperal fever. This misfortune worked so against the increase in his practice that for years he struggled with poverty. No doubt the increased effort he made to win back the confidence of those families which had left him on this account was responsible for the fact that he finally became the leading obstetrician of the northern part of the state, and a teacher of obstetrics in the University of Denver.