Tuolumne County Biographies

CALEB DORSEY

Submitted by: Nancy Pratt Melton

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This gentleman, one of the practicing attorneys of Sonora, was born in Howard 
County, Maryland, March 25, 1825, receiving there his primary education. When 
about eighteen years of age, he attended school at Rockville, Maine, and all 
afterwards was prepared for college. He graduated from Harvard College, and 
received instruction from the celebrated jurists, Greenleaf, Kent, and Judge 
Story.  He studied law with Robert J. Brent, was admitted to the Bar, and 
commenced practice at Baltimore, Maryland. Coming to this State via the Isthmus 
of Panama, he arrived in October, 1850. He came to this county, settled at 
Shaw�s Flat, and mined for six months.  At the Flat he erected a sawmill, and 
conducted that business, in addition to practicing his profession, for nearly 
two years.  Then, settling at Sonora, he opened a law office, since which time 
he has been practicing his profession. He has held the office of District 
Attorney for several terms in Tuolumne County.  This volume contains numerous 
refer�ences to Mr. Dorsey�s career, which, throughout, has been of the greatest 
importance to the County.

�A History of Tuolumne County, California� B.F. Alley, 1882. Pg. 373-374.