Dr. James Dawson and Mertilla White

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Husband Dr. James Dawson ^{1 2 3}

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           Born: 25 Jan 1804 - Ohio Twp, Beaver Co, PA 4
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           Died: 21 Aug 1846 or 21 Sep 1847 1 4
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         Father: Benoni Dawson (1768-1844) 5 6
         Mother: Katherine P. D. McKennon (      -      ) 2 6

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       Marriage: 

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   Other Spouse: Rachel [Unk] (      -Abt 1900) 4

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Wife Mertilla White ⁴

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           Born: 15 Dec 1807 - Ohio Twp, Beaver Co, PA 4
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           Died: 9 Jun 1833 - Pughtown, WV 4
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Children

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1 M William White Dawson ⁴

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           Born: 27 May 1833 - Fairview (later Pughtown), WV 7
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           Died: 9 Feb 1908 - Beaver Co, PA 7
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         Spouse: Elizabeth Ewing (1835-Aft 1914) 7
           Marr: 27 May 1858 7

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General Notes: Husband - Dr. James Dawson

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He was born on the old Captain Daniel Dawson farm in Ohio township, Beaver County, Pennsylvania. The farm on which he spent his early life later became the property of Lewis Davidson, of Beaver, Pennsylvania. As a boy James Dawson attended the public schools of Ohio township, and worked on the home farm. In young manhood he held the ambition for the life of a physician, casting over such a profession the mantle lent by youthful simplicity and innocence, which saw only the beauty of such a life of service. For this he studied diligently and was rewarded with a diploma entitling him to practice medicine. Soon after his marriage he moved to Pughtown, West Virginia, and there engaged in professional work, becoming one of the most popular physicians in that region. In maturity the occupation he had chosen became even more full of interest and fascination to him, and although the rosy dreams of youth were erased by the stern realities of the life of self-sacrifice demanded of a doctor in many ways, he became only the more zealous in its pursuit. After the death of his wife he remarried, and a few years later returned to the county of his birth, settling in Ohioville, where he continued in the practice of medicine. He was an indefatigable worker, and in the pressure of work neglected the care of his own physical condition, so weakening himself that he succumbed to a severe attack of illness in the forty-second year of his age. Dr. Dawson was a member of the Episcopal Church and as regular in attendance at its services as the exigencies of his profession would permit. The same influences prevented him from taking the position he was qualified to fill in the public life of the communities in which he resided, and although he personally supported the Republican party, was debarred from the participation in political action that he would have enjoyed.

Ten days previous to his death he suffered the amputation of his leg, and never recovered from the exhaustion incident to the operation.

1 Editor, History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia and Chicago: A. Warner & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 202.

2 Editor, Book of Biographies, Biographical Sketches of Leading Citizens of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (Buffalo, NY: Biographical Publishing Company, 1899), Pg 376.

3 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1914), Pg 798, 802.

4 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1914), Pg 802.

5 Editor, Book of Biographies, Biographical Sketches of Leading Citizens of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (Buffalo, NY: Biographical Publishing Company, 1899), Pg 375.

6 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1914), Pg 797.

7 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1914), Pg 803.