Background
Dawson, James Frederick was born on January 13, 1874 in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Jackson Thornton and Mary (McKenna) Dawson.
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James Frederick Dawson
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Graduated from the high school, West Roxbury, Massachusetts, 1893. Special landscape course, Harvard, 1894-1896. Study abroad, 1900-1902, 1904.
Career
Began as plantsman, Olmsted Brothers, landscape architects, Brookline, Massachusetts, 1896, associate member firm, 1906-1922, member firm since 1922. Principal works: Park work, Essex Company, New Jersey, Watertown, New York, Seattle and Spokane, Washington, Portland, Oregon. Seattle Exposition, 1906-1909, San Diego Exposition, 1911.
Saint Francis Wood, San Francisco.
Palos Verdes Estates, near Los Angeles, California. State Capitol grounds, Olympia, Washington, and Montgomery, Alabama.
Grove City (Pennsylvania) College. Russell Sage College and Emma Willard School for Girls, Troy, New New York
Fort Tryon Park, New York City.
Also grounds of many other schools, parks, private estates and country clubs all over United States.
Achievements
Membership
Member of the United States War Housing Commission, Newville Island, Pennsylvania, 1918. Fellow American Society Landscape Architects (member Boston and Pacific Coast chapters). Member Palos Verdes Art Jury.
Clubs: Harvard, National Arts (New York).
Connections
Married Hazel Lease, June 4, 1913. Children: Jackson Thornton, James Frederick, Robert Fletcher, Jane Lease.
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Religion
Episcopalian