Editing Charles G. Dawes (section)

==Early life and family==
[[File:Rufus Dawes House, 4th Street, Marietta, OH.jpg|left|thumb|Dawes' boyhood home in Marietta, Ohio.]]Dawes was born in [[Marietta, Ohio]], in [[Washington County, OH|Washington County]], on August 27, 1865, the son of [[American Civil War|Civil War]] General [[Rufus Dawes]] and his wife Mary Beman Gates.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Dunlap|first=Annette B.|title=Charles Gates Dawes: a Life|publisher=Northwestern University Press and the Evanston History Center |date=2016|isbn = 9780810134195|page=12}}</ref> Rufus had commanded the 6th Wisconsin Regiment of the [[Iron Brigade]] from 1863 to 1864 during the [[American Civil War]]. His uncle [[Ephraim C. Dawes]] was a major who served under [[Ulysses S. Grant]] at the [[Battle of Shiloh|Shiloh]] and [[Siege of Vicksburg]], and was severely wounded at the [[Battle of Dallas]], [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]], in May 1864.<ref>Magnusen, Steve - cite book title: To My Best Girl, 2020, GoToPublish.</ref>

Dawes's brothers were [[Rufus C. Dawes]], [[Beman Gates Dawes]], and [[Henry May Dawes]], all prominent businessmen or politicians. He had two sisters, Mary Frances Dawes Beach, and Betsey Gates Dawes Hoyt.<ref>Gates Dawes Ancestral Lines</ref>

Dawes was a descendant of [[Edward Doty]], a passenger on the ''[[Mayflower]]'', and [[William Dawes]] who rode with [[Paul Revere]] to warn American colonists of the advancing British army at the outbreak of the [[American Revolution]].

Dawes married [[Caro Blymyer]] on January 24, 1889.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.adherents.com/people/pd/Charles_Dawes.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060215120733/http://www.adherents.com/people/pd/Charles_Dawes.html|url-status=usurped|archive-date=February 15, 2006|title=The religion of Charles G. Dawes, U.S. Vice-President|website=www.adherents.com|access-date=June 7, 2018}}</ref> They had a son, Rufus Fearing (1890–1912), and a daughter, Carolyn. They later adopted two children, Dana and Virginia.<ref name="Davis"/>