NORTHERN NEW YORK
Genealogical and family history of northern New York: a record of the achievements of her people and the making of a commonwealth and the founding of a nation.
New York: Lewis Historical Pub. Co. 1910.
DAWLEY
The family herein mentioned came to America from England in the early part of the nineteenth century, and has been identified with the development of norther New York from its arrival to the present time. [1910].
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(I) Robert Dawley lived and died in England, and little is known of him. His wife was a Miss Kidd, and the name of only one of their children is preserved in this country.
(II) John, son of Robert Dawley, was born at Selby, Yorkshire, England, where he was a small farmer and died before 1830. He married Mary Thompson, who survived him and came to America with her children in 1830. They arrived at Montreal, and immediately went to Waddington, St. Lawrence county, New York, where they settled.
Children:
John, William, Mary, Hannah, all now deceased.
(III) William, second son of John and Mary (Thompson) Dawley, was born July 12m 1816, at Selby, England, and was fourteen years of age when he accompanied his mother and brother and sisters to this country. He had attended school in his native town and was also a student at Waddington. In early life he was a sailor on the St. Lawrence river and Lake Ontario, between Ogdensburg and Lewiston, New York, and was on the ship "United States" at the time of the Fenian border troubles. On attaining his majority he went on a farm in the town of Lisbon, St. Lawrence county, with his mother, and became a prosperous farmer of that town, ultimately owning several farms. Besides carrying on agriculture on a large scale he owned and operated a brickyard, and was widely known as a successful business man and farmer.
He was a prominent member of the Wesleyan Methodist Church, was an ardent Republican in politics, and a member of the county excise board at the time of his death, Jan. 2, 1892, at his home in Lisbon.
He married, in 1846, Hannah Taylor, born July 16, 1824, in Skelton, Yorkshire, England, daughter of Robert and Eleanor (Wilson) Taylor. She survived her husband more than eleven years and died July 14, 1903, in Lisbon.
Children:
1. Ellen M., wife of Thomas O'Neil, a large stock farmer of Cameron, Missouri, and had children: Grace, deceased, Mary M., Rex and Ruth.
2. John M., married Ellen Smith, resides at Madrid, New York, and has a son, Jay.
3. Elizabeth J., deceased wife of Thomas Simpson, a farmer of Waddington, having a daughter, Elizabeth.
4. George t., a physician located at New London, Wisconsin; married Miriam Douglas.
5. William H., married Addie Akin, now deceased; is a farmer at Lisbon, having a son Neal.
6. Mary, wife of E. G. Boice, a mining engineer living at Douglas, Arizona; one son, George.
7. Robert, married Belle Fisher; resides on a farm in Lisbon; children: Charles, George, Grace, Percy, Mary, Elizabeth and Thomas.
8. Smith Lee, mentioned below.
9. Sarah, wife of M. T. Sanderson, a farmer of Flackville, N.Y.; children: Earl and Mary, latter deceased.
10. Jay, resides on the paternal homestead in Lisbon; married Hattie Putney; one daughter, Marion.
(IV) Smith Lee, fifth son of William and Hannah (Taylor) Dawley, was born Nov. 18, 1861, in Lisbon, and received his elementary education in the public school of the neighborhood, after which he became a student at the Potsdam Normal school. For three years he was a teacher in the schools of Ogdensburg, after which he went in 1889 to Royalton, Wisconsin, and engaged in the milling business. This he continued four years, and during that time was postmaster under President Harrison. In 1893 he returned to Ogdensburg and engaged in a general insurance business, succeeding the old Hasbrouck insurance agency, and has since continued that line of activity. He is a trustee of the estate of the late William L. Proctor, a director of the New York Baptist State Convention, also of the Fleming & Sovie Furniture Company of Ogdensburg, N.Y., a city supervisor, and was a member of the board of education, of which he has been president. He is a member of the Ogdensburg Club; of the Republican county committee; of Acacia Lodge, No. 705, A. F. and A. M.' and Elijah White Lodge, No. 590, I.O.O.F.; and is a trustee of the First Baptist Church of Ogdensburg.
He married, July 17, 1895, Mabel Jane Proctor, daughter of William L. Proctor, of Ogdensburg (see Proctor VII). They have one daughter, Eleanor Howard Dawley.
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