Dawes, Beman Gates

Dawes, Beman Gates (son of Rufus Dawes and brother of Vice President Charles Gates Dawes), a Representative from Ohio; born in Marietta, Washington County, Ohio, January 14, 1870; attended the common schools and Marietta Academy and College, Marietta, Ohio; engaged in agricultural pursuits and engineering and became interested in public utilities; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-ninth and Sixtieth Congresses (March 4, 1905-March 3, 1909); after his retirement from Congress became interested in the production of oil and the building of electric railways; president or chairman of the board of directors of the Pure Oil Company since 1914; founder of the Dawes Arboretum, an endowed institution dedicated to the education of youth; is a resident of Newark, Ohio.