Bio of Dawley, Charles G. (b.1814) Wabasha Co., MN
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This bio comes from "HISTORY OF WABASHA COUNTY" 1884.
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Dawley, Charles G., a leading citizen and farmer, was one of the pioneers
of Highland. He was the only son of Daniel and Hanna (Whitford) Dawley,
both natives of Rhode Island, where the subject of this sketch was born
June 16, 1814. Mr. Dawley, Sr., was a blacksmith, and worked in the old
Gen. Green Anchor Forge Works. In 1825 Charles removed with his parents to
western New York State. Nine years later he again followed his parents to
Crawford county, Pennsylvania. In 1840, March 14, he married Charlotte
Webster, a native of the Keystone State, then in her twentieth year. Three
years later he came to McHenry county, Illinois, and settled on a farm.
Catching the gold fever, he and four companions crossed the plains with an
ox-team in 1853. He worked in mines in Sacramento county until his health
gave out, and in 1856 he returned after first distributing his dust to
defray the expenses of his sickness, and the following spring disposed of
his property in Illinois, and brought his family to Wabasha county,
settling on the farm where he still resides, one hundred and sixty acres
on section 26. Mr. Dawley has always been a prominent man in the political
affairs of the township; was a member of the first board of supervisors,
and one of the first justices of the peace, and has continued to hold the
latter office, with the exception of four years, ever since. In 1863 he
was elected judge of probate for Wabasha county, and served one term, and
in 1861 was also a county commissioner; five years he was chairman of the
board of supervisors, and has also been township superintendent of
schools. His politics are republican. Mr. Dawley has taught school
thirty-one terms, fourteen in Wabasha county. His eldest son, Charles G.,
was killed at the last battle at Nashville, Tennessee. He was a member of
the 10th Minn., and a sergeant in Co. C. He was born September 2, 1841, in
Pennsylvania. The second child, Allen W., is a farmer in Highland; Mary
(Mrs. R. H. Anderson, of Rochester) was the third child, and Daniel, the
youngest, is attending the State Normal School at Winona. Mr. Dawley has
for many years been postmaster of the Smithfield office.