Henry Barton Dawson (June 8, 1821 – May 23, 1889) was born in
Lincolnshire
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,
England
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and emigrated to
New York City
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in 1834. He was an editor of the pro-
temperance
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Moderation
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''The Crystal Font'' and ''Rechabite Recorder''. He wrote ''Battles of the United States by Sea and Land'', published 1858 and in 1863 an edition of ''
The Federalist
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'', creating controversy with
James A. Hamilton and
John Jay
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. He owned and edited the ''Historical Magazine'' from 1866 to 1876. He also authored "Westchester County, New York during the American Revolution" which was published in 1886 in J.T. Scharf's ''History of Westchester County''.
He was married to Catharine Martling and is buried at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Westchester County, New York.
References and external links
University of Michigan library
Further reading
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1821 births
1889 deaths
19th-century American historians
19th-century American male writers
American male non-fiction writers
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