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 HERRINGSHAW'S LIBRABY OP AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. Congressman Curtis and to Senator Allison of Iowa. In 1905-11 he was a representative from Iowa to the fifty-ninth, sixtieth and sixty-first congresses. Dawson, Andrew H. H., soldier, lawyer, orator, was bom Nov. 86, 1819, in Cynthiana, Ky. For ten months he spent hunting buffalo and fighting Indiana under Kit Carson, the

renowned old hunter. He has been attorneygeneral of Georgia; and edited an Analysis of the facts which make the full and complete history of the Maybriok case. Dawson, Andrew Reazina, soldier, was born in Ohio. In 1861 he was second lieutenant in the fifteenth regiment Ohio volunteer infantry; and in 1861 was brevetted brigadier-general of volunteers. He died July 19, 1896. Dawson, Benjamin Frederick, surgeon, inventor, journalist, author, was born June 28, 1847, in New York City. He invented a new galvanic battery for galvano-caustic surgery in 1876. In 1868 he founded the American Journal of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women and Children, which he edited until 1874. Dawson, Charles Carroll, genealogist, au-

was bom in 1833 in New York. He the author of Occasional Thoughts and Fancies, a book of verse; Families Bearing the Name of Dawson; Saratoga and its Mineral Waters and their Use. Dawson, Daniel Lewis, manufacturer, poet, was born in 1855 in Lewistown, Pa. He was the author of The Seekers in the Marshes, thor, is

and Other Poems. He died Oct. 31, 1893. Dawson, Francis Warrington, soldier, jour-

was born May 17, 1840, in England. served in the civil war; and at its close he drifted into journalism and later became managing editor of the Mercury. In 1886 he narrowly escaped death in the Charleston earthquake; and almost single handed he issued the News and Courier the next morning and gave the world the terrible story of the night. He died March 12, 1889, in Charleston. Dawson, Francis Warrington, journalist, author, was born Sept. 27, 1878, in Charleston, S.C.; and is a, son of the late Captain Francis W. Dawson. In 1899-93 he attended the university school of Charleston; and in 1893-95 studied in the college of Charleston, nalist,

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writing children's book reviews for his father's paper, the Charleston News and Courier. In 1898 he was correspondent in Spain to that publication; in 1898-1900 did special newspaper work in France and England; and since 1900 has been Paris correspondent of the United Press of America. Since 1905 he has been

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secretary-general of the association of foreign journalists in Paris. He is the author of The Soar; and other works. Dawson, George, journalist, author, was born March 14, 1813, in Scotland. He was editor of the Albany Evening Journal in 1846-77; and author of The Pleasures of Angling. He died in 1883 in Albany, N.Y. Dawson, George Ellsworth, educator, was bom Dec. 23, 1861, in Berkeley Springs, W. Va. In 1887 he received the degree of A.B. from the university of Michigan; in 1888-89 studied at the university of Leipzig; and subsequently received the degree of PhJJ. from Clark university. In 1891-93 he was professor of English and literature at the South Dakota agricultural college; in 189395 was instructor of English at the university of Michigan; in 1895-97 was a fellow in psychology at Clark university; and in 1897-1901 was professor of psychology at the Hartford school of religious pedagogy. In 1901-02 he was head of the department of history at Pratt institute; and since 1903 has been professor of education at Mount Holyoke college of South Hadley, Mass. He has contributed to American literature on educational topics. Dawson, Henry Barton, journalist, author, was born June 8, 1821, in England. He was editor of the Historical Magazine in 186677; and editor of the Federalist, reprinted from the original text. He was the author of Battles of the United States by Sea and Land; Current Fictions Tested by Undercurlent Facts; Rutgers against Waddington; and Westchester County in the Revolution. He died May 23, 1889, in Morrisania, N.Y.

Dawson, John, soldier, congressman, was born in 1762 in Virginia. He was a presidential elector in 1793. In 1797-1814 he was a representative from Virginia to the fifth to the thirteenth congresses. He rendered service in the war of 1812 as aid to the commanding general, on the lakes; and was appointed bearer of dispatches to France in ]801.

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Dawson, John B., lawyer, jurist, congressman, was bom in 1800 in Nashville, Tenn. In 1841-45 he was a representative from Louisiana to the twenty-seventh and twenty-eighth congresses; and had repeatedly served in the legislature of Louisiana. He militia general of the state; and was judge of the parish court in which he resided before his election to congress. He died June 26, 1845, at St. Francisville, La. Dawson, John Littleton, lawyer, congressman, was born Feb. 7, 1813, in Uniontown, Pa. He was appointed in 1845 United States attorney for the western district of Pennsylvania. In 1851-55 and 1863-67 was a representative from Pennsylvania to the thirtysecond, thirty-third, thirty-eighth and thirty-ninth congresses. In 1862 he was elected to the thirty -eighth congress; and was the author of the homestead bill which passed

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