Background
Dawley, Thomas Robinson was born on April 18, 1862 in New York, United States. Son of Thomas Robinson and Antoinette (Hoxsie) Dawley.
Dawley, Thomas Robinson was born on April 18, 1862 in New York, United States. Son of Thomas Robinson and Antoinette (Hoxsie) Dawley.
Education high school Brooklyn, 1 year.
Went to Liverpool on cattle ship. Tramped from Liverpool to London. Later in printing business, New New York
Traveled in Central America, West Indies, Spain and France.
After 10 years absence returned to New New York Taught district school on Block Island.
Studied law, Providence, Rhode Island. Went to Cuba for Harper’s Weekly, 1896.
Visited insurgent camps and went out with Spanish troops arrested several times, finally confined in Morro Castle 2 weeks.
Expelled from island by General Weyler. Returned to Cuba following year. With army of General Gomez.
Volunteer aid on staff General Miles in Spanish-American War.
Transferred to General Shafter’s staff, 1898. After taking of Santiago, published 1st American daily newspaper in Cuba, The Times of Cuba.
Incarcerated under old Spanish judicial system at Havana, and newspaper plant seized by judicial authorities. Returned to New York, then went to Spain for Century Company.
Special commissioner Outlook, Pan-American Congress, Mexico, 1901.
United States delegate International Coffee Congress, New York, 1902. Traveled through island of Santo Domingo, 1904, and at request of President Roosevelt, made a report on the political and sociological conditions there. Special agent of bureau of Labor, 1907-1909, and as such assigned to investigate, under an act of Congress, the effect of factory employment upon the women and children drawn from the farms to the cotton mills of the South.
Made an exhaustive investigation of rural conditions in the southern Appalachians, 1912.
Author: Cuba, Annual Cyclopedia, 1897, and various contributed articles idem, 1902. On editorial staff Providence Journal, 1916-1917.
Went to Guatemala and attempted to introduce welfare work. Adjudicator of compensation claims, War Risk Bureau, Washington, District of Columbia, 1919.
Returned to Guatemala, 1920.
Participated in revolution and overthrow of Estrada Cabrera, and appointed official publicist by the succeeding government. Founder of the “Casa del Niño” for the care and instruction of poor children. After overthrow of Herrera government, returned to New York, 1922.
Home: New York, New New York
Married Rosalie Janez, January 1891. Children: Grace, Antoinette, Thomas Robinson, Bradley Lee, Hattie May (deceased).