[p. 860] a prosperous farmer of Taylor Township comes of an old and prominent family of the county. He was born on the farm on which he now lives, three miles south of New Castle, on the Valley Way Road. in 1875, and is the son of Samuel Sample and Mattie F. Hawthorne.
His grandfather, Alexander Hawthorne, purchased Tract No. 1825, next north of the John Moore farm and next to the farm now occupied by John R. Maitland, about 1804. He built a house and barn on the property and put on a tenant, he himself living in New Castle at his hotel, nicknamed the "Pokeberry Exchange," till about 1840, when he moved out on the farm and lived there until his death, in 1864.
Samuel S. Hawthorne was born in New Castle, at his father's home, the old "Pokeberry Exchange." Much of his early life was spent with his uncle, Samuel Sample, for whom he was named. After spending a number of years on the Pacific Coast, being a "forty-niner," Mr. Hawthorne returned and lived on the Sample Farm in Taylor Township, which was left to him by his uncle. Shortly after his return from the West he married Mattie F., daughter of Frederick Halle, a member of a very old German family, who had settled in Pittsburgh, and later moved to Taylor Township. Mr. Samuel S. Hawthorne died in l894 and his wife survived him about two years, dying in 1896.
Louis H. Hawthorne is the younger of two children, the older having died in infancy. He received a superior education in the schools of the county and in Georgia. He also attended the Pennsylvania State College. During his younger days much time was spent in Illinois, and in Georgia, Florida, and other Southern States.
After his marriage, in April, 1898, to Tillie Charity Woodward, daughter of Thomas Woodward, of Knightstown, Ind., and Anna (Taylor) Woodward, daughter of Judge Samuel Taylor, of Little Beaver Township, Mr. Hawthorne has resided on the farm left him by his father, which he has operated in a very successful manner. He and his wife are the parents of one child, Samuel Philip, born June 5, 1899. They have a fine home and many good buildings on the hillside overlooking the busy Beaver Valley. The confluence of the Shenango and Mahoning Rivers, together with Hickory Creek, form the Beaver River on this farm.
20th Century History of New Castle and Lawrence County Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens Hon. Aaron L. Hazen Richmond-Arnold Publishing Company, Chicago, Ill., 1908
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