Ancestry of
Charles Dawes

30th U.S. Vice-President

Rufus R. Dawes

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• • Father of Charles Dawes — 2nd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 2 
  • Father:
  • Henry Dawes 
  • Mother:
  • Sarah Cutler   
  • Birth Date:
  • 4 Jul 1838 
  • Birth Location:
  • Malta, Morgan, Ohio 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 1 Aug 1899 
  • Death Location:
  • Marietta, Washington, Ohio 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Oak Grove Cemetery, Marietta, Washington, Ohio 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Mary Beman Gates
  • Marriage Date:
  • 18 Jan 1864 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Marietta, Washington, Ohio 
  • Children:
  
  

  Charles Gates Dawes (Ahnentafel No:1 )

  Rufus Cutler Dawes

  • Notes: 

  • Rufus Dawes was a Union Army officer during the U.S. Civil War. He participated in a number of battles during the war, but he is probably most notable for being a part of the Iron Brigade during the Battle of Gettysburg. He achieved the rank of Brevet Brigadier General after the war.

    It is said that Rufus Dawes had no middle name but used a middle initial “R.”

• Sources for Rufus R. Dawes

  • ¹ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 07/13/2015).
  • ² Bartlett, Levi, Genealogical and Biographical Sketches of the Bartlett Family in England and America, Lawrence: G.S. Merrill and Crocker, Printers (1876), 86.
  • ³ Ferris, Mary Walton, Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines: A Memorial Volume Containing the American Ancestry of Rufus R. Dawes, Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Wisconsin Cuneo Press (1931), Vol. 2, pp. 4-5, 29, 542, 566.
  • ⁴ Ferris, Mary Walton, Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines: A Memorial Volume Containing the American Ancestry of Rufus R. Dawes, Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Wisconsin Cuneo Press (1931), Vol. 1, pp. 3-10, 58-60, 314, 420.
  • ⁵ Herrick, Gen. Jedediah and Lucius C. Herrick, M.D., Herrick Genealogy: A Genealogical Register of the Name and Family of Herrick, Columbus, Ohio: Privately Printed (1885), 156.
  • ⁶ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 67.
  • ⁷ Roberts, Gary Boyd and William Addams Reitwiesner, American Ancestors and Cousins of The Princess of Wales, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. (1984), 40.
  • ⁸ Wikipedia, "Rufus Dawes", (accessed 12/31/2014).