Miss Anna L. Dawes.

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Miss Anna L. Dawes.

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Daughter of U.S. Senator Henry L. Dawes, and member of the committee who assisted and advised William Duncan in the removal of his mission colony from British Columbia to Alaska in 1887.

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Dawes, Anna Laurens, 1851-1938

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Anna Laurens Dawes (b. May 14, 1851, North Adams, MA–d. Sept. 25, 1938) was an American author and anti-suffragist. She was the daughter of Henry Laurens Dawes, a Republican United States Senator and Representative of Massachusetts. Dawes created the Wednesday Morning Club in 1879 and was its president for sixty years. She later became a trustee of Smith College. In 1883, she secured governmental aid for the Leif exposition to search for Major General A. W. Greely, who had been missing in the...