. A volume of memoirs and genealogy of representative citizens of the city of Seattle and county of King, Washington, including biographies of many of those who have passed away. il. He removed to Trumbull county, Ohio,and at Warren began the manufacture of linseed oil, in which work he w^asthoroughly posted and l)y reason of his experience, knowledge and capablemanagement conducted a i)rosperous business. He became one of the lead-ing and imluential citizens of Warren and took an active part in the officiallife of the city, serving as justice of the peace for many years, also as a mem-ber and
. A volume of memoirs and genealogy of representative citizens of the city of Seattle and county of King, Washington, including biographies of many of those who have passed away. il. He removed to Trumbull county, Ohio,and at Warren began the manufacture of linseed oil, in which work he w^asthoroughly posted and l)y reason of his experience, knowledge and capablemanagement conducted a i)rosperous business. He became one of the lead-ing and imluential citizens of Warren and took an active part in the officiallife of the city, serving as justice of the peace for many years, also as a mem-ber and president of the board of education, while for twelve years he occu-pied the position of chief executive of Warren, and his administration asmayor proved of practical benefit to the city along lines of substantial im-provement and progress. His death occurred there in 1878. In early man-hood he married Nancy L. Reeves, a daughter of John Reeves, a pioneer ofTrumbull county, who was born in Connecticut and removed to Pennsyl-vania from that state and later became one of the first to locate in Trumbullcounty, Ohio. Mrs. Dawson attained the age of seventv-four vears and her. uclibraryI SEATTLE AND KING COUNTY. 615 death occurred in July, 1900, when she was laid to rest l)y the side of herhusband in the cemetery in Warren. The Doctor was educated in the pubhc schools and later in the WesternReserve Colleg-e, at Hudson, Ohio. Being- thrown upon his own resourceshe engaged in teaching school in Warren in order to meet the expenses of acollege course. When he had completed his literary education he at onceentered upon the study of medicine under Dr. John R. Woods of Warren,and after his preliminary reading was accomplished he enteied the medicaldepartment of the University of Michigan, at Ann Arbor, and was graduatedthere in June, 1882, after three years of earnest and unremitting the following year Dr. Dawson filled the position of assistant sur-geon at the Quincy coppe
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