Los Angeles County, CA, Biographies

ROBERT DOLLARD

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 Born Fall River, Mass., 1842. Educated public schools. Enlisted Apr. 16, 1861, Co. B, Fourth 
Mass. Inf., serving throughout the war; promoted through all grades to major, receiving that 
commission in October, 1864. Located at Galesburg, Ill., 1866; admitted to the bar, 1870; prac. 
there until 1879, when became first settler Douglas Co., Dakota Ty. Mem. of Senate Dakota Ty., 
First Constitutional Convention, 1883, South Dakota, also, of Second, in 1885; elected Attorney 
General under provisional government, and on admission of South Dakota, in 1889, became 
Attorney General of State, also member of House and Senate legislature of that state. Came to 
Santa Monica, 1907. Mem. Loyal Legion G. A. R. and K. of P. Married 1875, Carrie Dunn at 
Yates City, Ill.

SOURCE: Greater Los Angeles & Southern California Portraits & Personal Memoranda, Lewis Publishing Company, 1910, P.127