School: Maryland
Samuel T. Hawken was born October 26, 1792, the fourth son of Christian Sr. and Juliann Hawken. Samuel volunteered in Captain George Shryock’s Hagerstown militia during the War of 1812 and fought at Bladensburg. On June 14, 1815, he announced tht he had commenced the business in the shop occupied by his father in Hagerstown. On September 19, 1815, he married Rosanna Oster in Hagerstown and the following year moved to Xenia, Ohio, where his wife died on April24, 1821. He returned to Hagerstown with his three small children and, leaving them with his mother in early 1822, went to St. Louis, Missouri, and worked with his brother Jacob. He remarried Martha Ritchey, of Mercersburg, Pennsylvania, and he died in St. Louis at the age of 91. For further reference, see Arms Makers of Maryland. For additional information see Maryland Longrifles Hartzler/Whisker.
