Portrait of Annie Lea Dawson
Portrait of Annie Lea Dawson
Portrait of Annie Lea Dawson

Portrait of Annie Lea Dawson

Object number86.1.208
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Credit LineGift of Admiral & Mrs. H.S. Persons
DescriptionFramed oil painting. Bust portrait of a woman wearing a black dress with a lace collar, black hat with feathers, pearl choker, and a red shawl around her arms.Dimensions24 x 21.5 in. (61 x 54.6 cm)
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Historical NotesThis painting was donated by Rosalie Young Persons in 1984. She was the great-niece of Anna "Annie" Lea Dawson. Anna "Annie" Lea Dawson was the youngest child of of William and Susannah Scott Dawson. The Dawson family was a middle class family that lived in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In 1809, four year old William Dawson (1805-1888) moved, with his family, from Wilmington, Delaware, to the Pittsburgh area. In 1832, Dawson married Susannah Scott (1810-1902), and worked as a steamboat captain on the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers. Dawson remained in the area throughout his life and played a role in the local community. He helped to organize the North Presbyterian Church in Allegheny City, Pennsylvania in 1863 and served as its ruling elder. William and Susannah had six children: Mary Elizabeth (1833-), Harriet Jane (1836-), Caroline (1840-), William Albert (1843-1923), Edwin Alexander (1845-), and Annie Lea (1850-1871). In 1869 Caroline Dawson married Joseph Hamilton Montgomery, who had served in the Civil War with her brother Edwin. In 1879 they had a daughter, Annie, named after her sister that passed away in 1871. Annie Montgomery married Joseph Mason Young and they had one daughter Rosalie.
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