JOHN P. DAWSON
John F. Dawson, who has had charge of the
creamery at Delaware for the past three
years, also holds the office of postmaster and ably discharges the duties devolving
upon him in that connection. His birth occurred in Evansville, Wisconsin, on the 14th of January, 1860, his parents being
David P. and Lydia A. (Spencer) Dawson, the former a native of New York and the latter of Vermont. They removed to Wisconsin in the '40s and
subsequently came to Iowa. The father passed away
on the 6th of November, 1905, but the mother is
still living and is now in the seventy-ninth year of her age. To them were born
five children, four of whom survive.
John F. Dawson enjoyed the advantages of
a college education in his youth and
remained under the parental roof until he had attained .his majority. Subsequently
he followed farming for a number of years and in 1891 embarked in the creamery
business at Maynard, Fayette county, Iowa, where he remained for four years. In
1911 he came to Delaware and took charge of the
creamery here, having conducted the same
continuously and successfully since. He makes about eighteen hundred
pounds of butter per week and in the management of his business interests displays excellent executive ability and good
judgment.
On the 29th of November, 1883, Mr. Dawson
was united in marriage to Miss Martha E. Bagger, a native of DeKalb county,
Illinois, and a daughter of Richard and Alsetta (Gray) Bagger, who were born in
Canada and New York respectively. Both are deceased, and two of their ten
children have also passed away. To Mr. and Mrs. Dawson have been born six
children, as follows: Ina, who is deceased; Edna, who was educated at Chillicothe, Missouri, and is now employed as
a bookkeeper in Waterloo, Iowa; and Bessie, Eugene, Robert and Inez, all at home.
Mr. Dawson gives his political allegiance
to the republican party and for the past year has served as postmaster of Delaware, making a creditable
record in that connection. His fraternal relations are with the Knights of
Pythias, and with his wife he attends the
services of the Methodist Episcopal church. At all times he has been true to the obligations and responsibilities
that have devolved upon him in every relation of life, and he well merits the
esteem and good-will which are uniformly accorded him.
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