Many Civil War buffs will recognize the name Rufus Dawes, and dedicated students know that he fought with the famed Iron Brigade at the Battle of Gettysburg.  However, his importance in American history goes much deeper than that.

                Born in 1838 in Marietta, Ohio, Dawes was the great grandson of two pillars of the Revolutionary War.  His great-grandfather on his mother’s side, Manessah Cutler, was the author of the Northwest Ordinances and the first to establish the Ohio Territory.  His great-grandfather on his father’s side, however, was well know in his time as the other rider with Paul Revere, warning the American colonists that the British were coming. 

                This event will take a look at ancestry of one of Gettysburg’s most notable figures and tie it directly to the very foundation of the American Revolution.

- FREE with Museum Admission -

Lydia Ziegler Clare Education Center
Seminary Ridge Museum and Education Center