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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Otago & Southland Provincial Districts]

Mr. John Henry Dawson

Mr. John Henry Dawson , who was well known in Southland as a sawmiller and farmer, was born in Tasmania, in 1837, soon after his father landed in that colony. He engaged in farming pursuits till 1877, when he came to Southland and took up eighty acres of land at Seaward Bush. In 1884, he purchased thirty-eight acres at Brunswick, Kennington, where he erected a sawmill, connecting it with his property at Seaward Bush by tramway. When the bush on both properties had been cut, Mr Dawson worked the land as a mixed farm, until his death at the end of 1900. He was married, in 1855, to Miss Thompson, of Tasmania. His wife died in 1891, leaving six sons and seven daughters.