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Dawes, Thomas

educator, clergyman, was born March 11, 1818, in Baltimore, Md. He attended the Chauncy Hall school and the public Latin school of Boston, Mass.; graduated from Harvard university in 1839, from the Divinity school in 1842, and has received the degrees of A. B. and A. M. For six years he was a member of the school committee of Boston, Mass., and has always taken an active part in educational affairs. He is a successful clergyman of the unitarian church, and for a quarter of a century has filled a pastorate in Brewster, Mass.

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