Benoni Hawkins (1844-1923) was born in Coventry, Rhode Island, and died in Providence, Rhode Island. During the 1880s, he owned and operated a building materials business in Woonsocket, Rhode Island. In 1896, he founded the Woonsocket Bobbin Company, manufacturing bobbins and spools. Although he expressed an interest in Christian Science, there is no record of him studying with Mary Baker Eddy or uniting with the Church of Christ (Scientist).

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