Tree Dedicators
of
The Dawes Arboretum
Tree dedicators are chosen by The Arboretum Board of Trustees “to honor individuals or groups of outstanding
achievement in the stream of human history, or events of significance to The Dawes Arboretum.”
1
Dedicated to and by: Honorable James M. Cox [1870-1957]
Quercus macrocarpa, bur oak (syn. mossycup oak)
Date: June 10, 1927
Location: AI04.065
2
Dedicated to and by: Brigadier General Charles G. Dawes [1865-1951]
Quercus bicolor, swamp white oak
Date: June 15, 1927
Location: AF06.002
3
Dedicated to: Great American Game of Baseball
Dedicated by: Byron Bancroft Johnson [1864-1931]
Acer saccharum, sugar maple
Date: June 22, 1927
Location: AI05.010
4
Dedicated to: The Dead of the 324th Field Artillery, The 158th
Field Artillery Brigade and The 83rd Division National Army
Dedicated by: Major General T.Q. Ashburn [1874-1941]
Platanus x acerifolia (syn. P. x hybrida), London planetree
Date: August 7, 1927
Location: AB05.009
5
Dedicated to and by: Major General James G. Harbord
[1866-1947]
Juglans nigra, black walnut
Date: September 15, 1927
Location: AD03.019
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Dedicated to: Honorable J. Sterling Morton [1832-1902]
Dedicated by: Joy Morton [1855-1934], Wirt Morton and
Carl Morton
Cotinus obovatus, American smoketree (originally Ulmus
americana)
Date: November 5, 1927
Location: AK09.006
Dedicated to: The Rainbow Division of the American
Expeditionary Forces
Dedicated by: General Charles P. Summerall [1867-1955]
Platanus x acerifolia ‘Bloodgood’ (syn. P. x hybrida
‘Bloodgood’) Bloodgood London planetree (originally Ulmus
americana)
Date: July 14, 1928
Location: BU19.004
Charles G. Dawes  June 15, 1927
8
9
Dedicated by: Honorable Beman G. Dawes [1870-1953]
Pinus strobus, eastern white pine
Date: June 5, 1929
Location: AK02.008
10
Dedicated by: Bertie B. Dawes [1872-1958]
Pinus strobus, eastern white pine
Date: June 5, 1929
Location: AM09.026
11
Dedicated to and by: Honorable Nicholas Longworth [1869-1931]
Ginkgo biloba, ginkgo
Date: July 6, 1929
Location: AE04.028
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Dedicated to and by: John T. McCutcheon [1870-1949] & William
A. Ireland [1880-1935]
Acer saccharum, sugar maple (originally a double trunk Acer
saccharum)
Date: November 15, 1928
Location: AL04.006
Dedicated to and by: The Marietta College Ambulance Unit
Betula alleghaniensis (syn. B. lutea), yellow birch (originally Ulmus
americana)
Date: September 21, 1929
Location: BU19.003
Dedication of: Pershing Avenue
Dedicated by: John J. Pershing [1860-1948]
Ulmus americana ‘Valley Forge’, Valley Forge American elm
(originally Ulmus americana)
Date: December 22, 1929
Location: BT19.008
Beman G. Dawes  June 5, 1929
Dedicated to and by: Sir Josiah Charles Stamp, G.B.E., D.S. [1880-1941]
Zelkova serrata ‘Green Vase’, Green Vase® Japanese zelkova (originally Pinus sylvestris)
Date: June 7, 1930
Location: CC21.002
Dedicated to and by: Lady (Olive) Stamp [ -1941]
Zelkova serrata ‘Green Vase’ Green Vase® Japanese zelkova (originally Pinus sylvestris)
Date: June 7, 1930
Location: CC21.024
16
Dedicated to and by: Daniel Willard [1861-1942]
Quercus palustris, pin oak
Date: June 7, 1930
Location: AH02.006
17
Dedicated to and by: The 37th Division American Expeditionary Forces “Buckeye Division”
Fraxinus americana, white ash (originally Ulmus americana)
Date: August 30, 1930
Location: BU19.002
18
Dedicated to: The Army of Cumberland
Dedicated by: Major General John L. Clem [1851-1937]
Nyssa sylvatica, black tupelo (syn. blackgum, sourgum)
Date: September 19, 1930
Location: AL06.007
19
Dedicated to and by: Honorable Charles Curtis [1860-1936]
Acer saccharum, sugar maple
Date: October 8, 1930
Location: AL03.007
20
Dedicated to: William Mears Dawes [1771-1855] & Abigail Holden Dawes [1780-1856]
Dedicated by: Honorable W. Evin Huffman
Crataegus crus-galli, f. inermis, thornless cockspur hawthorn (orginally Crataegus submollis)
Date: October 19, 1930
Location: AW08.020
21
Dedicated to and by: Ralph T. O’Neil [1888-1940]
Tilia ‘Redmond’, Redmond linden (orginally Ulmus americana) (2nd tree Ulmus carpinifolia ‘Christine Buisman’)
Date: November 23, 1930
Location: BU19.001
22
Dedicated to: The United Spanish War Veterans
Dedicated by: Edward S. Matthias [1873-1953]
Tsuga canadensis, Canadian hemlock (syn. eastern hemlock)
Date: May 24, 1931
Location: AJ05.013
23
Dedicated to: The Grand Army of the Republic
Dedicated by: James E. Jewel [1847-1939]
Fagus sylvatica ‘Purpurea Tricolor’, tricolor purple European beech (syn. rosepink European beech)
Date: June 15, 1931
Location: AJ05.014
24
Dedicated to and by: Gene Tunney [1898-1978]
Quercus rubra, northern red oak
Date: June 24, 1931
Location: AD06.021
25
Dedicated to: The Military Intelligence Division, American
Expeditionary Forces, France
Dedicated by: Major General Dennis E. Nolan [1872-1953]
Fraxinus americana, white ash (originally Ulmus americana)
Date: November 17, 1931
Location: CA19.012
26
Dedicated to: George Washington [1732-1799]
Dedicated by: Honorable George White [1872-1953]
Juglans nigra, black walnut
Date: February 22, 1932
Location: AE03.001
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28
Dedicated to and by: Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd [18881957]
Abies concolor, white fir
Date: March 29, 1932
Location: AI05.001
Dedicated to and by: Students of The Licking Township
Schools
Malus ‘Jay Darling’, Jay Darling crab apple (propagated from
the original tree)
Date: May 26, 1932
Location: AX09.048
Dedicated to and by: Senator Joseph T. Robinson [1872-1937]
alba, white oak
29 Quercus
Date: October 28, 1932
Bertie B. Dawes  June 5, 1929
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Location: AB05.012
Dedicated to and by: Wiley Post [1899-1935]
Thuja occidentalis, American arborvitae
Date: September 9, 1933
Location: AT07.028
Dedicated to: Research and Education in Forestry
Dedicated by: Edmund Secrest
Ten Acres
Date: October 27, 1933
Location: AY20
Dedicated to: The United Confederate Veterans
Dedicated by: General C.A. Desaussure
Pinus jeffreyi, Jeffrey pine
Date: October 13, 1934
Location: AE03.009
Dedicated to: A Century of Progress International Exposition
Dedicated by: Rufus C. Dawes [1867-1940]
Picea pungens, Colorado spruce (originally Picea pungens ‘Koster’)
Date: November 4, 1934
Location: AW08.016
Dedicated to and by: Honorable Owen D. Young [1874-1962]
Carya ovata, shagbark hickory
Date: June 2, 1935
Location: AF06-009
Dedicated to: The Second Division, Regular, American
Expeditionary Forces Verdun; Belleau Wood; Vaux; Chateau
Thierry; Soissons; St. Mihiel; Blanc Mont; Meuse-Argonne;
The Rhine
Dedicated by: Major General Logan Feland [1869-1936]
Platanus x acerifolia ‘Bloodgood’ (syn. P. x hybrida ‘Bloodgood’),
Bloodgood London planetree (originally Ulmus americana)
Date: June 11, 1935
Location: CA19.009
36
Dedicated to: The 96th Aero Squadron
Dedicated by: Major D.H. Young [1894-1978]
Acer saccharum ‘Commemoration’, Commemoration sugar
maple (originally Ulmus americana)
Date: June 21, 1935
Location: CA19.011
37
Dedicated to and by: Robert Tyre Jones, Jr. [1902-1971]
Ostrya virginiana, American hop-hornbeam
Dedication, September 9, 1935
Location: AH07.007
38
Dedicated to: Orville Wright [1871-1948] & Wilbur Wright
[1867-1912]
Dedicated by: Orville Wright
Quercus alba, white oak
Date: October 16, 1935
Location: AO07.009
39
Dedicated to: Delta Upsilon Fraternity
Dedicated by: Honorable Arthur M. Hyde [1877-1947]
Pinus mugo, mugo pine (syn. Swiss mountain pine)
Date: September 5, 1936
Location: AC08.012
Orville Wright  October 16, 1935
40
Dedicated to and by: Honorable James W. Wadsworth [18771952]
Quercus coccinea, scarlet oak
Date: June 15, 1937
Location: AD06.024
41
Dedicated to: The Enlisted Men of the United States Army
Dedicated by: Captain Samuel Woodfill [1883-1951]
Ulmus ‘Urban’, Urban elm (originally Ulmus americana)
Date: August 14, 1937
Location: CA20.009
42
Dedicated to and by: Admiral Hugh Rodman [1859-1940]
Fraxinus americana, white ash (originally Ulmus americana)
Date: May 12, 1938
Location: CB20.004
43
Dedicated to: Our Comrades of all the Armed Forces of the
United States of American who paid the supreme sacrifice
under the stars and stripes on foreign soil or hostile waters in
defense of and protection of our country.
Dedicated by: Scott P. Squyres
Quercus alba, white oak
Date: August 21, 1938
Location: AN06.018
44
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Dedicated to and by: Robert H. Montgomery [1872-1953]
Zelkova serrata [Green Vase], Green Vase® Japanese zelkova
(originally Quercus alba)
Date: September 30, 1938
Location: CC21.023
Dedicated to: The Great American Game of Football
Dedicated by: Harold E. (Red) Grange [1903-1991], W.W.
(Pudge) Heffelfinger [1867-1954] & Fielding H. (Hurry Up)
Yost [1871-1946]
Abies concolor, white fir
Date: November 18, 1938
Location: AU09.024
Dedicated to: The French American Friendship
Dedicated by: His Excellency, Count René de Saint-Quentin [1883-1961]
Fagus sylvatica f. purpurea, purple European beech
Date: May 19, 1939
Location: AL06.008
47
Dedicated to: The State of Ohio
Dedicated by: Honorable John W. Bricker [1893-1986]
Aesculus glabra, Ohio buckeye
Date: June 13, 1939
Location: CB19.011
48
Dedicated to and by: Fritz Kreisler [1875-1962]
Pinus nigra, Austrian pine
Date: October 11, 1939
Location: AG07.005
49
Wiley Post  September 9, 1933
Dedicated to: The Cavalry of the United States Army
Dedicated by: Major General Daniel Van Voorhis [1878-1956]
Ulmus carpinifolia ‘Christine Buisman’, Christine Buisman smoothleaf elm (originally Ulmus americana)
Date: November 13, 1939
Location: CB20.003
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Dedicated to: The 63rd Infantry Brigade, 32nd Division,
American Expeditionary Forces
Dedicated by: Maj. Gen. William Durward Connor [18741960]
Platanus x acerifolia ‘Bloodgood’ (syn. P. x hybrida ‘Bloodgood’),
Bloodgood London planetree (originally Ulmus americana)
Date: November 15, 1939
Location: CA19.010
51
Dedicated to and by: Osa Johnson [1894-1953]
Liquidambar styraciflua, sweetgum
Date: November 1, 1940
Location: AD04.018
52
Dedicated to: A Symbol of Faith in Ideals
Dedicated by: Lincoln Ellsworth [1880-1951]
Pinus ponderosa, ponderosa pine
Date: November 11, 1940
Location: AI09.010
53
Dedciated to and by: Maj. Gen. James L. Collins [1882-1963]
Tilia americana, American linden (syn. basswood) (originally
Ulmus americana)
Date: June 25, 1944
Location: CB19.016
54
Dedicated to and by: Viscount Aloys van de Vyvere [18711961]
Quercus palustris, pin oak
Date: October 6, 1944
Location: AE06.023
55
Dedicated to: The achievements of the men living and dead of the 36th Infantry Division & World War II
Dedicated by: Major General Fred L. Walker [1887-1969]
Fraxinus americana, white ash (originally Ulmus americana)
Date: July 28, 1945
Location: CB19.015
56
Dedicated to: The officers and men of the United States Navy, the Marine Corps and the Coast Guard who served their country in World
War II
Dedicated by: Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King [1878-1956]
Platanus x acerifolia ‘Bloodgood’ (syn. P. x hybrida ‘Bloodgood’), Bloodgood London planetree (originally Quercus bicolor)
Date: October 4, 1946
Location: CB20.001
57
Dedicated to: The memory of the officers and men of the U.S. Army, U.S. Navy, U.S. Marine Corps, U.S. Coast Guard, and Allied Forces
Dedicated by: W.F. Halsey [1882-1959]
Liriodendron tulipifera, tulip-tree (syn. yellow-poplar) (originally Quercus bicolor)
Date: June 25, 1947
Location: CC20.008
58
59
Osa Johnson  November 1, 1940
Dedicated to: The Early Birds
Dedicated by: Brigadier General Frank P. Lahm [1877-1963]
Quercus prinus (syn. Q. montana), chestnut oak (syn. basket oak)
Date: September 11, 1948
Location: AK07.014
Dedicated to: The members of the Office of Strategic Services World War II
Dedicated by: Major General William J. Donovan [1883-1959]
Acer saccharinum ‘Silver Queen’, Silver Queen silver maple (originally Ulmus americana)
Date: March 2, 1949
Location: CC20.003
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Dedicated to and by: Charles F. Kettering [1876-1958]
Zelkova serrata [Green Vase], Green Vase® Japanese zelkova (originally Quercus bicolor)
Date: June 1, 1949
Location: CC21.022
61
Dedicated to: The Memory of Ten Progenitors of American Forestry
Dedciated by: Carl Alwin Schenck, PhD [1868-1955]
Quercus macrocarpa, bur oak (syn. mossycup oak)
Date: September 26, 1951
Location: AK08.004
62
Dedicated to: The officers and men of the United States Navy and Coast Guard
Dedicated by: Admiral Alan G. Kirk [1888-1963]
Fraxinum americana ‘Skycole’, Skyline® white ash (originally Quercus bicolor)
Date: June 7, 1953
Location: CC20.006
63
Dedicated to: The Civic Leaders of Ohio
Dedicated by: Governor Frank J. Lausche [1895-1990]
Gymnocladus dioicus, Kentucky coffee-tree
Date: September 15, 1953
Location: AF07-004
64
Dedicated to and by: Honorable C. William O’Neill [1916-1978]
Gleditsia triacanthos f. inermis ‘Suncole’, Sunburst® thornless honey locust
Date: September 8, 1958
Location: CB17.004
65
Dedicated to: Martha Kinney Cooper [1874-1964] & Martha Kinney Cooper Ohioana Library
Dedicated by: Mrs. M. Y. Newcomb
Aesculus pavia, red buckeye
Date: May 18, 1963
Location: CA17.015
66
Dedication of: The Japanese Garden
Dedicated to: The continued friendship of the two great countries, Japan and the United States
Dedicated by: His Excellency, Ryuji Takeuchi
Date: May 31, 1965 (rededicated May 18, 1992)
Location: BA21
67
Dedicated to: The Ohio Academy of Science
Dedicated by: Howard L. Bevis, S.J.D.
Quercus bicolor, swamp white oak
Date: April 23, 1966
Location: AF06.006
68
Dedication of: The Beman Gates Dawes, Jr. Administration Building
Dedicated by: Beman Gates Dawes, Jr. [1895-1968]
Fagus sylvatica ‘Purpurea Tricolor’, tricolor purple European beech (syn. rosepink European Beech)
Date: June 11, 1966
Location: AV12.001
69
Dedicated to and by: Colonel John H. Glenn, Jr. [1921- ]
Liquidambar styraciflua, sweetgum
Date: May 29, 1968
Location: AN04.018
70
Dedicated to and by: Ohio Congressional Medal of Honor Recipients
Platanus x acerifolia ‘Bloodgood’ (syn. P. x hybrida ‘Bloodgood’), Bloodgood London planetree (originally Ulmus carpinifolia ‘Christine
Buisman’)
Date: August 24, 1968
Location: CC20.002
71
Dedicated to: The 100th Birthday of Beman Gates Dawes
[1870-1953]
Dedicated by: Kingsley A. Taft [1903-1970]
Quercus alba, white oak
Date: January 14, 1970
Location: AK02.007
72
Dedicated to: The Profession of Horticulture
Dedicated by: Dr. Lewis C. Chadwick
Fagus sylvatica ‘Asplenifolia’, fernleaf European beech
Date: May 13, 1972
Location: AW13.007
73
Dedicated to and by: C. Burr Dawes [1902-1996]
Quercus macrocarpa, bur oak (syn. mossycup oak)
Date: October 21, 1972
Location: AS15.026
74
Dedicated to and by: Jesse Owens [1913-1980]
Zelkova serrata [Green Vase], Green Vase® Japanese zelkova
(originally Cornus controversa)
Date: February 27, 1973
Location: CC21.021
75
Dedicated to: The bicentennial of the ride from Boston to
Lexington of William Dawes [1745-1799] April 18-19, 1775
Dedicated by: William Lancelot Dawes [1903-1985]
Quercus bicolor, swamp white oak (originally Franklinia
alatamaha)
Date: April 26, 1975
Location: AN10.001
76
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Dedicated to: 3rd Military Railway Service,
Dedicated by: Major General Paul F. Yount and General Frank S. Besson, Jr.
Acer saccharum ‘Wright Brothers’, Wright Brothers sugar maple (syn. Moraine sugar maple) (originally Quercus bicolor)
Date: May 24, 1975
Location: CC20.007
77
Dedicated to and by: Henry Dawes [1906-1986]
Quercus [undetermined hybrid], oak
Date: May 8, 1976
Location: AX12.006
78
Dedicated to: The Babe Ruth Baseball League
Dedicated by: Don Edwards and the Newark Babe Ruth Team
Fraxinus quadrangulata, blue ash
Date: August 15, 1977
Location: AX11.004
79
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John and Annie Glenn  May 29, 1968
Dedicated to and by: Dr. Edward S. Thomas [1891-1982]
Franklinia alatamaha, franklinia (syn. Franklin-tree)
Date: April 1, 1979
Location: BQ26.001
Dedicated to: The Fiftieth Anniversary of the founding of The Dawes Arboretum
Dedicated by: The Trustees of The Dawes Arboretum
Quercus rubra, northern red oak (originally Quercus shumardii)
Date: June 16, 1979
Location: AQ15.022
Dedicated to and by: William B. Saxbe [1916- ]
Acer saccharum, sugar maple
Date: November 6, 1979
Location: AM06.006
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82
Dedicated to and by: R. Buckminster Fuller [1895-1983]
Juglans nigra, black walnut
Date: February 26, 1980
Location: AL09.006
83
Dedicated to: The benefit of all beings
Dedicated by: His Holiness The XVIth Gyalwa Karmapa Rangjung Rigpe Dorje [1924-1981]
Ginkgo biloba, ginkgo
Date: October 29, 1980
Location: AE04.026
84
Dedicated to: The Brumback One-room School
Dedicated by: Members of the Former Brumback One-Room School Community
Quercus rubra, northern red oak
Date: May 17, 1981
Location: AI03.002
85
Dedicated to: Johnny Appleseed [John Chapman 1774-1845]
Dedicated by: Trustees of the Johnny Appleseed Foundation and Chapman Family members
Malus, apple [undetermined variety] (tissue cultured from apple tree in Granville, Ohio)
Date: September 26, 1982
Location: AP10.010
86
Dedicated to and by: Vietnam Veterans
Acer rubrum [Autumn Flame], Autumn Flame® red maple
Date: November 11, 1982
Location: CD20.012
87
Dedicated to: Dorothy Rowe [1893-1962] & Stanley M. Rowe, Sr. [1890-1987]
Dedicated by: Stanley M. Rowe
Metasequoia glyptostroboides, dawn-redwood
Date: April 29, 1983
Location: BB09.008
88
Dedicated to: All animals on the verge of extinction
Dedicated by: Jack Hanna [1947- ]
Franklinia alatamaha, franklinia (syn. Franklin-tree)
Date: October 15, 1989
Location: BQ26.004
89
Dedicated to and by: Volunteers of The Dawes Arboretum
Thuja occidentalis ‘Woodwardii’, Woodward American
arborvitae
Date: October 14, 1990
Location: CS24.004
90
Dedicated to and by: Korean War Veterans
Quercus macrocarpa, bur oak (syn. mossycup oak)
Date: July 4, 1991
Location: CE21.012
91
Dedicated to and by: Persian Gulf War Veterans
Aesculus x carnea, red horse-chestnut
Date: July 4, 1991
Location: CD21.019
92
Dedicated to: All people who touch trees
Dedicated by: Dr. Alex L. Shigo [1930- ]
Acer rubrum, red maple
Date: June 16, 1992
Location: AJ10.001
Jesse Owens  February 27, 1973
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Dedicated to: The Soldiers of the War of 1812
Dedicated by: Daughters of the War of 1812, Lucas Sullivant Chapter
Celtis occidentalis ‘Prairie Pride’, Prairie Pride common hackberry
Date: October 19, 1992
Location: BT18.003
94
Dedicated to and by: American Defenders of Bataan and Corregidor
Acer rubrum ‘Bowhall’, Bowhall red maple
Date: July 4, 1994
Location: CE20.018
95
Dedicated to and by: Jewish War Veterans of the U.S.A.
Acer x freemanii ‘Celzam’, Celebration® Freeman maple
Date: July 7, 1996
Location: CF21.011
96
Dedicated to and by: Tree City USA Communities of Ohio
Fraxinus pennsylvanica ‘Summit’, Summit green ash
Date: April 24, 1997
Location: AY10.009
97
Dedicated to and by: Navy Dive Bombing Squardron 85 (VB-85)
Ginkgo biloba, ginkgo
Date: October 13, 1997
Location: CG22.009
98
Dedicated to: The 75th Anniversary of the founding of The Dawes Arboretum on June 1, 1929
Dedicated by: Descendants of Arboretum co-founders Beman G. and Bertie B. Dawes and the Trustees of The Dawes Arboretum
Pinus strobus, eastern white pine
Date: May 22, 2004
Location: AL02.022
99
Dedicated to and by: Governor Bob Taft [1942- ]
Quercus phellos, willow oak
Date: June 19, 2004
Location: CC19.006
100
Dedicated to and by: Ed Hasselkus
Cercidyphyllum japonicum, katsura-tree
Date: August 7, 2004
Location: AU14.018
101
Dedicated to and by: Harrison Flint
Cercidyphyllum japonicum, katsura-tree
Date: August 7, 2004
Location: AU14.019
102
Dedicated to and by: Steven Still
Cercidyphyllum japonicum, katsura-tree
Date: April 9, 2005
Location: AU14.021
103
104
Dedicated to and by: Governor Ted
Strickland
Malus ionensis, Prairie Crab Apple tree
Date: December 8, 2010
Location: CC21.020
Dedicated to and by: Allan M. Armitage
Magnolia grandiflora, southern magnolia
Date: September 14, 2012
Location: AT16.004
Jack Hanna  October 15, 1989