Born in Columbus, Ohio, the son of noted American ornithologist William Leon Dawson and Frances Etta Akerman.
In California, Dawson, a proponent of using bird motifs in art, maintained a studio at Los Colibris in Mission Canyon near Santa Barbara where he displayed his extensive Oology and photographic collection.
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