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elected judge of the Lincoln county court in 1894. In 1897-99 he was a representative to the fifty-fifth congress as a repub-

He was lican.

Davy, John M., lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born June 29, 1835, in Ottawa, Canada. He was elected district attorney for Monroe county in 1873 for three years; was appointed collector of customes for the port of Genesee by President Grant, which office he held until 1874, when he was elected a representative from the Rochester district of the state of New York to the forty-fourth congress as a republican. He was Justice of the Supreme court of the state of New

York

in 1888-1902.

Dawes, Anna Laurens, author, was born May 14, 1851, in North Adams, Mass. She The is the author of How We Are Governed Modern Jew, His Present and Future; and Biography of Charles Sumner. Dawes, Beman Gates, business president; congressman, was born Jan. 14, 1870, in

He is president of several gas companies; and president of the Ohio river and bridge company. In 1905-09 he was a representative from Ohio to the fifty-ninth and sixtieth congresses as a republican.

Marietta, Ohio.

Dawes, Charles Gates, comptroller, author,

was bom Aug. 27, 1865, in Marietta, Ohio. He was the leader of the McKinley movement in Illinois resulting in instructions for

Mc-

Kinley at the Springfield convention of April, 1896. In 1898 he was appointed comptroller of the currency. He is the author of The Banking Systems of the United States.

Dawes, Rufus R., soldier, lumber merchant, congressman, was born July 4, 1838, in Malta, Ohio. He entered the union army in 1861 as captain and became colonel and brevet brigadier-general. He engaged in business at Marietta, Ohio. In 1881-83 he was a representative from Ohio to the forty-seventh congress as a republican. He died July 31, 1899, in Marietta, Ohio. Dawes, Thomas, soldier, statesman, was born Aug. 5, 1731, In Boston, Mass. He was a mechanic. In 1773-78 he was colonel of the Boston regiment. He was a member of the house and of the senate, as well as state councilor. Died Jan. 2, 1809, in Boston, Mass. Dawes, Thomas, lawyer, jurist, was born 8, 1757, in Boston, Mass. He was judge of the supreme court of Massachusetts in

July

1792-1803; judge of the municipal court in 1803-23; and judge of probate until his death. He was the author of an Oration on the Boston Massacre; and the Law Given on Mount Sinai. He died July 22, 1825, in Boston, Mass. Dawes, William, patriot, of Lexington. He was despatched to Lexington, with Paul Revere, on April 18, 1775; and rode through Roxbury, Revere going by way of Charlestown. In the morning of April 19, the message from Warren reached Adams and Hancock. Revere and Dawes, joined by Samuel Prescott, from Concord, rode forward, calling the inhabitants. He died in Lexington, Mass. Dawes, Thomas, educator, clergyman, was born March 11, 1818, in Baltimore, Md. He attended the Chauncy Hall school and the public Latin school of

Dawes, Henry Laurens, journalist, lawyer, United States senator, was bom Oct. 30, 1816, in Cummington, Mass. He was a member of the legislature of Massachusetts in 1848, 1849, and 1852; of the state senate in 1850; and of the state con-

Boston, Mass.; gradufrom Harvard ated university in 1839, also from the Divinity school in 1842, and he has received the degrees of A.B. and A. M. For six years he was a member of the school committee of Boston, Mass., and has

congressman.

stitutional convention in 1853. He was district attorney for the western district of his native state from 1853 until 1857. In 1857-75 he was a representative to the thirty-fifth to the forty -third congresses; in 1875-93 he was United States senator. He died Feb. 5, 1903, in Pittsfield, Mass.

always taken an active part in education-

Dawes, James W., merchant, lawyer, state senator, governor, was born Jan. 8, 1845, at McConnellsville, Ohio. He was a member of the state constitutional convention of 1875; and was elected state senator in 1876. In 1883-87 he was the sixth governor of Nebbraska. Since 1875 he hag been trustee Doane college ; and is now engaged in the law

He is a successful clergyman of the unitarian church, and for a quarter of a century has filled a pastorate in Brewster,

practice.

Gomez. Dawson, Albert Foster, journalist, congressman, was bom on Jan. 26, 1878, in Spragueville, Iowa. He was educated in the public schools of his native state; and graduated from the university of Wisconsin. For several years he was editor and publisher of the Preston Advance; and later became city editor of the Clinton Herald of Iowa. For several years he was private secretary to

Dawes, Rufus, jurist, author, poet, was born Jan. 26, 1803, in Boston, Mass. He was a witty jurist of Massachusetts; and who won notice both as orator and poet. He was the author of The Valley of the Nashaway, and Other Poems; Athena of Damascus, a tragedy; Nix's Mate, an Historical Romance; and Miscellaneous Poems. He died Nov. 30, 1859, in Washington, D.C.

al affairs.

Mass. Dawley, Charles Carroll, journalist, author, was born in 1862 in New York. Since 1898 he has been a journalist of Havana, Cuba. He is the author of Campaigning with