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Rufus R. Dawes
Rufus R. Dawes
  • Born 4 July 1838 - Malta, Morgan Co., OH
  • Deceased 2 August 1899 - Marietta, Washington Co., OH,aged 61 years old
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DAWES, Rufus, (father of Vice President Charles Gates Dawes and Beman Gates Dawes), a Representative from Ohio; born in Malta, Morgan County, Ohio, July 4, 1838; attended the common schools, and was graduated from Marietta College, Ohio, in 1860; during the Civil War volunteered on April 25, 1861, and was chosen captain of Company K, Sixth Wisconsin Regiment, in the Army of the Potomac; appointed major June 21, 1862, lieutenant colonel March 24, 1863, colonel on July 6, 1864, and brevet brigadier general March 13, 1865; after the close of the war engaged in the wholesale lumber business in Marietta, Ohio; elected as a Republican to the Forty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1881-March 3, 1883); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1882 to the Forty-eighth Congress; resumed the wholesale lumber business in Marietta, Washington County, Ohio, and died there August 2, 1899; interment in Oak Grove Cemetery.
--- Biographical Directory of the United States Congress

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                                                                             _____|16_William Dawes 1719-1802
                                                   _____|8_William Dawes 1745-1799
                                                  /                         ¯¯¯¯¯|17_Lydia Boone 1718-1760
                         _____|4_William Mears Dawes 1771-1855
                        /                        \                          _____|18_Samuel May 1722-1794
                       /                          ¯¯¯¯¯|9_Mehitable May 1751-1793
                      /                                                     ¯¯¯¯¯|19_Catharine Mears 1730-1752
|2_Henry Dawes 1804-1867
|                    \                                                     _____|20_Jonas Holden 1721-1802
|                     \                           _____|10_Jonas Holden 1756-1847
|                      \                         /                         ¯¯¯¯¯|21_Abigail Kendall 1728-1802
|                       ¯¯¯¯¯|5_Abigail Kendall Holden 1780-1856
|                                                \
|                                                 ¯¯¯¯¯|11_Molly Thompson 1757-
|--1_Rufus R. Dawes 1838-1899
|3_Sarah Cutler 1809-1896