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After school, he went back to Ohio and made a living painting portraits. From 1827, on he was an itinerant painter traveling around southeast Ohio. Some of the towns where he worked were
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December 22, 1889, and his wife died on August 12,1903. When Ephraim Cutler Dawes died, his wife Frances moved to Marietta, Ohio and lived with her deceased husband's parents. She brought many paintings by her father with her and many today are housed at the Dawes Arboretum in
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