Surname: Dawes Forename(s): Rufus b. 1803. d. 1859. Nationality: American. VIAF.
Poet and editor. Born in Boston, Mass. Son of Thomas Dawes, a judge. Attended Harvard
College, where he studied law. Edited The Emerald (Baltimore). Author of The Valley of the Nashaway, and Other Poems (1830) and Geraldine, Athenia of Damascus, and Miscellaneous Poems (1839). Biographical information: Specimens of American Poetry, edited by Samuel Kettell, S. G. Goodrich and Co., 1829, vol. 3, p. 215; The Imperial Dictionary of Universal Biography, vol. 2, William Mackenzie, [1857], p. 43.; VIAF. (AC)