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108 protected by our criminal laws. One of his most important measures was the introduction of the " Weather Bulletin," in 1869, at the suggestion of Prof. Cleveland Ablse. for the purpose of collecting and comparing weather reports from all parts of the country. — Ilis daughter, Anna Laurens, is known as a writer on political topics.

DAWES, James W., senator, b. in McConnels- ville, Ohio, 8 Jan., 1845. In 1856 he removed with his parents to Newport, Wis., where he received a common-school education. After studying law at Fox Lake, Wis., he was admitted to the bar in 1871. He was engaged in mercantile business until 1877, and since that time has practised his,profession. He was a member of the Nebraska constitutional convention in 1875, and was chosen a U. S. senator from that state in 1876. He was chairman of the Republican state central committee of Nebraska from 1876 till 1882. In 1880 he was a delegate to tlie Republican national convention at Chicago, and was a member of the National republican com- m i ttee for Nebraska for a term of four years. Since 1875 lie has been trustee and secretary of Doane college at Crete, .Neb. He was elected governor of Nebraska in 1883, and re-elected in 1884.

DAWES, Thomas, patriot, b. in Boston, 5 Aug., 1731 ; d. there, 2 Jan., 1809. He was a mechanic, and had received a common-school education. Dur- ing the controversy with Great Britain he was made colonel of the Boston regiment in 1773, serving until 1778. He often presided at the town-meet- ings of Boston. He was a member of the house and of the senate, as well as state councillor, and also a member of the Academy of arts and sciences. — Flis son, Thomas, jurist, b. in Boston, 8- July, 1757; d. there, 22 July, 1825, was graduated at Harvard in 1777. He was a member of the State constitutional conventions of 1780 and 1820, and of that which adopted the Federal constitution in 1789. Pie was judge of the supreme court of Mas- sachusetts from 1792 till 1803, judge of the mu- nicipal court from 1803 till 1823, and judge of probate until his death. His literary productions were popular, and his witticisms proverbial. He published an ''Oration" (July, 1787), an '-Oration on the Boston Massacre," and the " Law Given on Mount Sinai" (1777). He was a member of the Academy of arts and sciences. — His son, Riifus, poet, b. in Boston, '26 Jan., 1803; d. in Washington, D. C, 30 Nov., 1859, entered Harvard in 1820, but was refused a degree, owing to his supposed partici- pation in a breach of discipline. He resented this accusation, which was afterward pi'oved to be un- just, by publishing a satirical poem on the faculty. He studied law, and was admitted to the bar, but never practised. He contributed poems to the " United States Literary Gazette," published in Cambridge, and conducted for a time a weekly paper in Baltimore, called the "Emerald." He Toems " (1830) ; " Geraldine," a composition resem- bling " Don Juan " in form and treatment (1839) ; '• Athena of Damascus," a tragedy founded on the siege of Damascus by the Turks, A. D. 634 (1839) ; " Nix's Mate," a spirited and successful rom.ance (1840) ; an " Ode on the Death of Walter Scott " ; also several songs and poems, some of which were sung at the laying of the corner-stone of Bunker Hill jnonument. Mr. Dawes held a government ofEice in one of the departments in Washington during the latter years of his life. He was a Swe- denborgian, and frequently preached.
 * )ul ilished " The Valley of the Nashaway, and other

DAWES, William, patriot, of Lexington. He was despatched to Lexington, with Paul Revei'e, on 18 April, 1775, and rode through Roxbury, Revere going by way of Charlestown. In the morning of 19 April the message from Warren reached Adams and Hancock. Revere and Dawes, joined by Samuel Prescott, from Concord, rode forward, calling the inhabitants. At Lincoln they were sur- prised by a party of British officers, and both Dawes and Revere were seized and taken to Lex- ington. Prescott made his escape to Concord.

DAWSON, Benjamin Frederick, physician, b. in New York city. 28 June, 1847; d. there, 3 April, 1888. He studied at Columbia, served in 1864-'5 as assistant surgeon in the U. S. array, and was graduated at the College of physicians and surgeons in 1866. He then settled in New York, making a specialty of obstetrics and diseases of women and childi'en. He invented a new gal- vanic battery for galvano-caustic surgery in 1876, the superior qualities of which have done much to advance that branch of surgery. In 1868 he founded the " American Journal of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women and Children," which he edited until 1874. Among his publications are a trans- lation, in conjunction with Prof. Joseph Kamerer, of Klob's " Pathological Anatomy of the Female Sexual Organs" (1868); an American edition of Barnes's " Obstetric Operations," with additions (1870); and several monographs entitled "The Use and Comparative Merits of the Bichloride of Me- thyline as an Anaesthetic (1874) ; and '' Relations between Alimentation and the Gastro-intestinal Disorders of Infants and Young Children " (1875).

DAWSON, George, journalist, b. in Falkirk, Scotland. 14 March, 1813; d. in Albany, N. Y., 17 Feb., 1883. Though without the advantages of early schooling, he obtained an education through his own exertions. At five years of age he was brought to this country by his parents, and at eleven was placed in a printing-office in Niagara county, N. Y. In 1826 he removed to Rochester and found employment in the office of the " Anti- Masonic Inquirer," edited by Thurlow Weed. In 1830 he accompanied Mr. Weed to Albany, and be- came foreman in the office of the " Evening Jour- nal." From 183 till 1839 he was editor of the Rochester daily " Democrat," and from 1839 till 1842 of the Detroit daily " Advertiser," when he returned to Rochester and resumed the editorial charge of the " Democrat." In 1846 he became as- sociate editor of the Albany " Evening Journal," and, on Mr. Weed's retirement in 1862, assumed control of the paper as senior editor and proprie- tor, remaining in that relation until 1877. He was postmaster of Albanf from 1861 till 1867. In 1850 he travelled in Europe. Though ardently devoted to the republican party, Mr. Dawson was far above the narrow partisan. He was an able and zealous advocate of all patriotic and philanthropic enter- prises, and especially of free schools. He was a devout Christian, especially active in the benevolent works of the Baptist denomination, to which he belonged. He gave much time and attention to the subject of Sunday-school missions, in connec- tion with which he was teacher, superintendent, and lay preacher. He was the author of "The Pleasures of Angling " (New York, 1876).

DAWSON, Henry Barton, historian, b. in Gosberton. Lincolnshire, England, 8 June, 1821 ; d. in Morrisania, N. Y., 23 May, 1889. He came to New York in 1834. In 1840 he contributed to the daily press, and in 1845-6 undertook the editorship of the " Crystal Fount," a temperance newspaper. His first historical composition was a " History of the Park" and its vicinity, which was published in the "Corporation Manual " (1855). In 1858 he began the publication, in serial form, of his "Battles