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...Charles G. Dawes has three brothers. They are: Beman Gates Dawes, ex-Congressman, Rufus Cutler Dawes, business man and Henry M. Dawes, U. S. Comptroller of the Currency...
...example, a descendant of one William Dawes who emigrated from England in 1635. Another William Dawes, one of his ancestors, was a companion of Paul Revere in the famous equestrian escapade near Boston. In 1865 he was born, in Marietta, son of General Rufus R. Dawes commander of the Iron Brigade of Wisconsin. He worked his way through Marietta College as chief engineer of a small railroad in Ohio. He graduated from the Cincinnati Law School. Then he began to move ? law practice in Lincoln, Neb. ? presidency Lacrosse Gas Light & Coke Co. ? presidency Northwestern Gas Light & Coke...
William Lyon Phelps, Lampson Professor of English at Yale University : "In Scribner's for April I wrote: 'My present Irish setter, Rufus H. Phelps, is ... the most literary dog I have ever known. He has been stroked by W. B. Yeats, patted by Hugh Walpole, petted by G. K. Chesterton, caressed by Joseph Conrad, and kissed by John Galsworthy...
Among the first half-year exchange professors are Professor Charles Rufus Morey of Princeton, who is leaving the University after giving two half-courses on medieval art, and Professor Chandler Rathfon Post '04 who is returning to Harvard after a half-year at Princeton. Professor Arthur Kingsley Porter, who has been exchange professor to France, will remain abroad lecturing in French and Spanish provincial universities. Professor K. G. T. Webster '93, however, will return from Beloit, Carleton, and Knox Colleges...
...Following me came the remainder of the first twelve, in order: Louis Marshall, famed New York lawyer and authority on constitutional law; Louis D. Brandeis, Associate Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court; Rufus Daniel Isaacs, Viscount Erleigh, first Earl of Reading, Viceroy and Governor General of India, ' holding the highest position, next to King George, in the British Empire'; Nathan Straus, New York philanthropist; Georg Brandes, Danish literary critic, said to be the world's greatest, member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Thomas Paine Association, the Royal Society of Literature, the Garrick Club; Chaim...