biography of Thomas DAWSON (1800-?)

Birth place: Ireland

Addresses: Cincinnati (Ohio), as early as 1825, to at least 1850

Profession: Miniaturist

Exhibited: Ohio Association (1841); The Fair of the Mechanics Institute (1843)

Comments: Came from Ireland around 1825. By 1850, his household in Cincinnati included his wife Eliza (a native of Pennsylvania) and two children, ages 17 and 14, both born in Ohio.

Sources: G&W; 7 Census (1850), Ohio, XXI, 285; Cist, Cincinnati in 1841, 141. Hageman, 116.