The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1894-08-04

tens1VeIy Through EurOpe-SketCh of
His Life.
Prof. Edward Graham Dawes, the we'll
known Baltimorean, Is dead. He was
native of North Carolina. The New.
berne Journal has the following sketch
of his life:
Not only in Newberne, the place of his
nativity, and in Baltimore, the place of
his residence, will thed cath of this gen
tleman be mourned, but wherever he is
known, and there is scarcely any telling
to what extent that was, for he was not
only eminent as a scholar, but had in the
three score and six years of his life min
gled with many of the very prominent
people of both hemispheres.
He was born in this city. His educa.
tiOn commenced in the NeWberne acad-
emy, and he early showed marked taste
for the classics, and at the age of twelve
years he was at the head of his class as a
student of Cicero and Virgil, thus giving
token in early life of his mental ability
and scholarly tastes.
Commencing at the age of fourteen he
spent three years under select private
tutors while living on a plantation with
relative
Then he entered Harvard college. This
was at the time when Jared Sparks, the
pioneer explorer among the archives Of
American history, was president, and
Pierce, the great mathematician, was
among the faculty. Among the after
wards eminent men who were students
at the same time were President Elliot,
Bishop Perry, Furnes, the Shakesperian,
the younger Agassiz and Rev. Philips
Brooks, D. D.
Mr. Dawes graduated In 1854 with sec
ond honors, and with prize Of oratory,
then studied law and left Cambridge in
1856 with degree of Bachelor of Laws,
and after a brief time spent with an es.
tablished law firm, was admitted as
member of the Maryland bar.
But just at this time he was elected to
the Greek professorship in Trinity col
lege, Hartford.
In 1861 he sailed for Europe and spent
ten years in the Eastern hemisphere. He
first attended lectures for a short time at
Bonn and in the autumn settled at Berlin,
at that most interesting period in German
history when William had just been
crowned king of Prussia and the initial
measures of his reign were the appoint
ment of the then little known Bismarck
and the perfecting Of that fine army or
ganization which revolutionized the nail
itary system of Europe.
He moved to Paris ia the spring of
1861, at that brilliant period in the French
capital when Louis Napoleon, flushed
with his victories in the Crimea and in
Italy, was posing as the arbiter of Europe,
and when the court of the Tuilleries was
the centre of the highest political inter
est. The Empress Eugene was then at
the meridian of her beauty, and was the
acknowledged queen of taste and fash
ion, and around her throne were hltter
ing the butterflies of every cline"
After year spent in France, Professor
Dawes moved to Nevey on the lake of
Geneva and there established a private
school for American boys. He thus
spent FIVE years, the routine being
broken by frequent journeys.
In 1865 he spent a month at Rome
when the city was still under Papal sway
and the city garrisoned by French troops,
upon whose bayonets rested the Papal
throne.
In 1869 Mr. Dawes moved with his pu-
pills from Vevey to Florence. e
Again be reached Paris on a summers
day in 1870, just as the news was received
which furnished the pretext for declaring
war against Germany, and found all
France wild with excitement, and then
passed over into Germany and back TO
Italy in the autumn.
There the summer was passed in slowly
travelling across Europe, ending with
Rotterdam and London, and then Pro
fessor Dawes came back 10 Baltimore
after al absence Of ten years, settled
there and devoted himself 10 private
teaching and lectures on literary topics
OF late years his interest has centured
mainly in colonial history, and 1t was
through his efforts and influence that
the monument TO the heroes Of the
Maryland time was erected on Guilford
battle field, and be organized the Nlr
ginia Dare Memorial association, the
company formed 10 purchase and pre-
serve the old For, Raleigh on Roanoke
Island, the bi!th place OF American
liberty.
Professor Dawes was an active member