43. Charles G. Dawes - Biography
Dawes, Charles Gates, A Journal of Reparations. New York, Macmillan, 1939. Dawes, Charles Gates, A Journal of the McKinley Years, ed. by Bascom N. Timmons.
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By ancestry he was destined for a life of such duality. His father had distinguished himself in the Civil War, achieving the rank of brevet brigadier general; an uncle had given his life. Four generations earlier, William Dawes had ridden with Paul Revere on April 18, 1775, to warn the Massachusetts colonists of the British advance which signalized the opening of the American Revolution; and seven generations earlier in 1628 the first William Dawes had been among the Puritans who came to America. Financial acumen was just as natural a heritage as active patriotism. Dawes's father owned and managed a lumber company in Marietta, Ohio; an uncle was a prosperous banker. | |
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