LESTER LEANDER HAWKINS, A FOUNDER OF OREGON

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER 1: EARLY YEARS, 1814-1879

a. Family of John Hawkins moves from Poultney, Vermont to Cleveland, Ohio

b. Wagon Trek west from Cleveland to Salt Lake City, Utah Territory, and Washoe

County

c. Youth of L.L. Hawkins in Nevada & California

d. Attends University of California, graduates as one of "12 Apostles,"

Graduate School, friendship with George Ainsworth

CHAPTER 2: PORTLAND & BANKING, 1879 -1893

a. Represented Capt. J.C. Ainsworth and D.P. Thompson

b. Railway tracks, Mining, work with brother William J. Hawkins,

c. Ainsworth, Hawkins, Co.

d. Founding of Ainsworth National Bank

e. Financial Panic of 1893

f. Covering losses to prevent closure of Bank

g. J.C. Ainsworth, Jr. take possession of the Bank

3. CHAPTER 3: OTHER INTERESTS

a. Founding of Mazamas

b. Oregon Academy of Science

c. Founder of City Museum

d. City Parks, Olmsted, Skyline Trail, McClay Park

e. Boys and Girls Aid Society

f. Friendships and Associations

4. CHAPTER 4: SUDDEN DEATH, 1906

a. Funeral Service

b. Tributes from Associations, Friends, Newspaper articles

c. Died Intestate, distribution of remaining fortune

d. William J. Hawkins: his brother, close friend, and trusted partner

c. Legacy

5. BIBLEOGRAPHY

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