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Biographical History of Cherokee County, Iowa
W. S. Dunbar & Co., Chigago - 1889

[page 620]

    S. N. DAWSON - This substantial and reliable young farmer is a resident
    of Cedar Township, Cherokee County, where he located in 1880.  He was
    born in Green County, Wisconsin, October 21, 1854, and is a son of JOHN
    J. and MARY A. (PARROT) DAWSON.  JOHN J. DAWSON was a native of West
    Virginia, and settled in Green County in 1839, being one of the ear-
    liest pioneers of Southern Wisconsin.  He was twice married, and had
    fourteen children, six daughters and eight sons.  S. N. DAWSON, the
    subject of this brief biography, was reared in the county of his birth,
    and obtained his education in the public schools and in the Broadhead
    Academy.  He was united in marriage May 27, 1880, to Miss KATE M.
    FLEEK, a daughter of JEROME B. and MARGARET FLEEK, and the same year
    settled in Cedar Township.  In 1883 he returned to Wisconsin and re-
    mained there three years, and then in 1886 he came back to Cedar
    Township, and located on his present farm; it contains 440 acres, 400
    of which are under cultivation.  He has made many valuable improvements
    on the place, and to-day it is considered one of the best in the
    county.  Mr. DAWSON devotes his time exclusively to farming and stock-
    raising, and has met with marked success in his undertakings.  Two
    children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. DAWSON: JEROME B. and MAGGIE
    MAY.  In political thought and action Mr. DAWSON affiliates with the
    Republican party.  Although a young man he has attained an enviable
    position in the county both from a social and financial point of view,
    and has the confidence and respect of all who know him.

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