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abandon tribal relations. His report stated the failure of the commission as due to tlie influence of the men '• who profit by the continuance of the present status," and suggested continued effort to remedy the evil. On March 31, 1896, the senate committee on Indian affairs reported favorably on the recommendation of the Dawes commission- He received from Yale College the degree of A.M. in 18-1:9. He married a daughter of Chester San- derson, of Ashfreld, Mass., and died in Pittsfield,
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DAWES, James William, govenioi- of Ne- braska, was born in McConnellsville, Ohio, Jan. 8. 1845; son of Edward M. and Caroline (Dana) Dawes. His earlj' education was acquired at the common schools and an academy. He was a clerk at Kilbourn City, Wis., 1864-68, and was

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admitted to the bar in 1871. He was a delegate to the Nebraska state constitutional convention of 1875; chairman of the Republican state cen- tral committee, 187G-82; state senator. 1877; a delegate to the Republican national' convention at Chicago in 1880; a member of the National Republican committee from Nebraska, 1880-84; and governor of Nebraska, 1883-87. He helped to found Doane college. Crete, Neb., in 1875, and was secretary of the board of trustees from its organization.

DAWES, Rufus, poet, was born in Boston, Mass., Jan. 26, 1803 ; son of Thomas Dawes, judge of the supreme court of Massachusetts, of the municipal court of Boston, and of the court of iiibate. He was educated at Harvard, 1820-23, and was refused his diploma as punishment for a supposed breach of discipline, afterward disproved. He was admitted to the bar but did not practise, devoting himself to literature. He conducted in Baltimore, Md., the Emerald, a weekly paper, contributed to the United States Literary Gazette, and held a department position in Washington. He published: The Valley of Xashaway and other Poems (1830) ; Geraldine (1839); Athena of Damascus (1839); Nix's Mate (1840) ; and several songs and odes. He died in Washington, D.C., Nov. 30, 1859.

DAWES, Rufus R., representative, was born at Malta, Oliio, July 4, 1838 He was graduated at Marietta college in 1860, and entered the Federal army in 1861 as captain of the 6th Wis- consin volunteers. He was promoted major in 1862; lieutenant-colonel in 1863; mustered out Aug. 10, 1864, and brevetted brigadier-general, March 18, 1865. He was a representative in the 47th congress. His son, Charles Gates, was made U.S. Comptroller of the currency, Jan. 1. 1898. General Dawes died in Marietta, Ohio, Aug. 2,1899.

DAWES, Thomas, jurist, was born in Bos- ton, Mass., July 8, 1757; son of Thomas Dawes (1731-1809), colonel of the Boston regiment, 1773-78, member of the state legislature, state councillor, and member of the American academy of arts and sciences. He was graduated at Har- vard in 1777, was a member of the state consti- tutional conventions of 1780 and 1820, and of the convention that ratified the Federal consti- tution in 1789; was judge of the supreme court of Massachusetts, 1792-1802. of the municipal court of Boston, 1803-23. and of the court of probate. 1823-25. He was a fellow^ of the Ameri- can academy of arts and sciences ; overseer of Harvard college, 1810-23, and received from Har- vard his A.M. degree in 1791. He published: Oration on the Boston Massacre (1777) ; and Lair Given on Mount Sinai (1777). He died in Boston, Mass.. July 22, 1825.

DAWSON, Francis Warrington, journalist, was born in London, England, 31ay 17, 1840. He began active life as a clerk in a real estate office in the Haymarket, and at the outbreak of the civil war in the United States shipped before the mast on the Confederate cruiser XashriUe, and after running the blockade at Wilmington, N.C., received a commission as master's mate in the Confederate navj-. For bi-avery at the battle of Drewry's Bluff he was commissioned second lieutenant in the army of northern Virginia, and was promoted captain and chief ordnance officer to General Fitzhugh Lee. Previous to the valley campaign he had also held that position under General Longstreet in the campaign in Tennessee. At the close of the war he became a reporter on the Richmond Dispatch, st.nd in 1867 accepted the editorship of the Charleston, N.C., Mercury. In 1868. with B. R. Riordan, he became editor of the Charleston Xeics, which in 1873 they purchased and consolidated with the Courier, under the name Xeirs and Courier. For many years he was a leading member of the Demo- cratic state as well as of the national executive committee. He was a delegate to the Chicago convention of 1884, and to the St. Louis conven- tion of 1888. At the time of the Charleston earthquake of Aug. 81, 1886, notwithstanding the fact that the office was a tottering ruin, the