W. J. Dawson

Born: No­vem­ber 21, 1854, Tow­ces­ter, North­amp­ton, Eng­land.

Son of Will­iam James and Susan Wall­er Daw­son, Will­iam was ed­u­cat­ed at Dids­bu­ry Col­lege, Man­ches­ter, and or­dained a Wes­ley­an min­is­ter in 1875. He mar­ried Jane Pow­ell of Lowes­toft in 1879, and served in var­i­ous lo­ca­tions un­til as­sum­ing the pas­tor­ate of High­bury Quad­rant Con­gre­ga­tion­al Church, Lon­don, in 1892. The pre­vi­ous year, he was one of the Eng­lish del­e­gates to the Meth­od­ist Ecu­men­i­cal Coun­cil in Wash­ing­ton, DC. He liked Amer­i­ca so much that he em­i­grat­ed there in 1905, join­ing the Presbyterians and first serv­ing at the First Church in New­ark, New Jer­sey. His works in­clude:

A Vis­ion of Souls, 1884
Question and Vi­sion, 1886
A Thresho­ld of Man­hood, 1889
Makers of Eng­lish, 1889
Makers of Eng­lish Prose, 1899
The Man Christ Je­sus, 1901
The Re­proach of Christ, 1903
The Quest of the Sim­ple Life, 1903
Makers of Eng­lish Fic­tion, 1905
The Em­pire of Love, 1907
America, and Other Po­ems, 1912
The Amer­i­can Hym­nal, 1913
Robert Shen­stone, a no­vel, 1917
The Fa­ther of a Sol­dier, 1917
The Au­to­bi­o­graphy of a Mind, 1925

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