Dorsey, Louis bio

History of Fulton County, Illinois; together with Sketches of its Cities, Villages and Townships, Educational, Religious, Civil, Military, and Political History; Portraits of Prominent Persons and Biographies of Representative Citizens. Chas. C. Chapman & Co., Peoria, Illinois, 1879, page 509, Bernadotte Township
Louis Dorsey, farmer, sec. 31; P. O., Ipava; was born June 18th, 1799, in Baltimore, Md., was the son of Nicholas Dorsey; removed to Brooke Co., W. Va., in 1829; in 1854 he came to this tp., where he still resides; was married in Washington Co., Penn., to Abbarilla Lindsey in 1834, who was born in Baltimore, Jan. 18, 1813. Seven children were the fruits of the marriage, the youngest of whom, Emma V., lives with her parents at the old homestead. Mr. D. has been a member of the M. E. Church and is a Democrat.
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