By Dan O Donnell
Jun 3, 2021
Vice Presidents by their nature are rather anonymous and easily forgotten. Richard Mentor Johnson, George Dallas, and Schuyler Colfax aren t exactly household names. But sometimes, extraordinary men are elevated to this rather ordinary office and do extraordinary things. They advise, they craft policy, and sometimes.they make music.
This is the forgotten history of the Vice Presidential Pop Star.
Charles Dawes was a man of many interests and talents; something of a microcosm of America itself. And in a very real way, Dawes was America itself. A descendant of both Edward Doty, a passenger on the Mayflower, and William Dawes who accompanied Paul Revere on his midnight ride, Dawes from an early age knew that he wanted to live up to his famous family name.
For five Cache Valley residents, discovering family ties to the original Pilgrims on the Mayflower has been an exciting process â and their research revealed they are descendants of not just one, but several of the settlers as a result of marital relationships begun on the ship.
Moreover, the five locals interviewed for this article would be interested to know they are all related to each other through genealogical ties to the 102 original passengers.
This year marks the 400th anniversary of the landing of the Mayflower near the tip of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, on Nov. 21, 1620. A group of English families known today as the Pilgrims left England on Sept. 6 that year and reached America after 10 weeks at sea with a crew of 30 men and 102 passengers â 74 male and 28 female adults and children.