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Dawson, Andrew H. H

soldier, lawyer, orator, was born Nov. 26, 1819, in Cynthiana, Ky. For ten months he spent hunting buffalo and fighting Indians under Kit Carson, the renowned old hunter. He studied law under Thomas F. Marshall, was admitted to the bar and settled in St. Louis, and subsequently became the leading lawyer of Georgia. In 1866 he moved to New York city. He has been attorney-general of Georgia, assistant district attorney of New York city and county. He is now engaged as a Mason in editing an Analysis of the facts which make the full and complete history of the Maybrick case.

DAWSON, BENJAMIN FREDERICK, surgeon, inventor, journalist, author, was born June 28, 1847, in New York city. He invented a new galvanic battery for galvano-caustic surgery in 1876. In 1868 he founded the American Journal of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women and Children, which he edited until 1874.