1838 - 1899

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• Title	Brevet Brigadier General
  Birth	4 Jul 1838	Malta, , Ohio
  Gender	Male
  Died	1 Aug 1899	Marietta, Washington, Ohio
  Person ID	I1187	Brainard (Brainerd) / Foster / Fish
  Last Modified	16 Jun 2004 00:00:00
  Family	Mary Beman GATES, b. 27 Aug 1842, Marietta, Washington, Ohio
  Married	18 Jan 1864	Marietta, Washington, Ohio
  Children	> 1. Charles Gates DAWES, Vice President of the United States, b. 27 Aug 1865, Marietta, Washington, Ohio   2. Bessie Gates DAWES, b. 5 Oct 1880,   3. Beman Gates DAWES, U.S. Representative from Ohio, b. 14 Jan 1870, Marietta, Washington County, Ohio   4. Mary Frances DAWES, b. 3 Mar 1872,   5. Henry M. DAWES, b. 22 Apr 1877,   6. Rufus Cutler DAWES, b. 30 Jul 1867, Marietta, Washington, Ohio
  Family ID	F564	Group Sheet

• Notes

  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.