Author: Dawes, Rufus
Biography:
DAWES, Rufus (1803-59: WBIS)
pseudonym Samuel Smythe
The son of Thomas Dawes (q.v.) and Margaret (Greenleaf) Dawes. Born in Boston, he enrolled at Harvard in 1820 but was expelled for an alleged breach of discipline, later proven to be unfounded. He then studied law and was called to the bar, but did not practise. A frequent contributor to newspapers and magazines, he edited a weekly paper, The Emerald, in Baltimore for a time, and was later involved with the Washington Mirror (1834-6) and the Weekly Whig in New York (1839). He also published plays and fiction, mainly in the late 1830s. In his later years he held a government position in Washington DC, where he died. (Appleton; ancestry.com 11 July 2018) HJ
Books written (2):
Boston: office of The New England Galaxy, 1830
Boston: Carter and Hendee, 1830