Edward Dickens RAWSON

Male 1825 - 1859  (34 years)


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  • Name Edward Dickens RAWSON  [1, 2
    • Edward was a graduate of Amherst College, class of 1851. Failing health caused him to give up his cherished plan of preparing for the ministry, and he turned his attention to teaching. He had many calls in that profession, classical and otherwise, the last one being that of the Public High School at Scranton, pa., which was finished and opened under his personal supervision. While thus occupied he took occasion to visit the scene of the poet Campbell's "Gertrude of Wyoming," where he took a severe cold, which soon resulted in his death, which occurred Aug. 6, 1859, at Woodstock, Conn. At a meeting of the Barnard Society of the Conn. Normal School the following resolution was adopted:

      Whereas, God, in his Providence has again entered our circle and removed by death Mr. Edward
      D. Rawson;

      Resolved, That in this dispensation we have lost one whose high purpose and Christian life made him an ornament in the profession of Teaching and while deeply mourning his loss, let us live so that it may be said of us, as it can truly said of him, "He hath done what he could." [1]
    Birth 24 Jan 1825  [1
    Gender Male 
    Fact Son of Grindal Rawson and Lucretia Cornell Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Death 6 Aug 1859  Woodstock, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Person ID I45827  Main Tree
    Last Modified 27 Oct 2018 

    Father Grindal RAWSON,   b. 12 Aug 1803   d. 29 Aug 1869, New Haven, New Haven Co., Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 66 years) 
    Mother Lucretia CORNELL   d. 23 Nov 1861 
    Marriage 30 Mar 1824  [1
    Family ID F38888  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Lucy Rebecca LAY,   b. 08 Oct 1831   d. 15 Mar 1891 (Age 59 years) 
    Marriage Nov 1853  [2
    Children 
     1. Edward Lay RAWSON,   b. 25 Aug 1858  [Birth]
    Family ID F10820  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 27 Oct 2018 

  • Sources 
    1. [S10188] E.B. Crane, A Revised Memoir of Edward Rawson, Secretary of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay.

    2. [S02759] The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 1908, Vol. 62.