Los Angeles County, CA, Biographies

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MELVILLE DOZIER, Los Angeles

 Born in Georgetown, S. C., May 22, 1846. Educated at Furman University, Greenville, S. C., and the 
State Military Academy, Charleston. Served in the battalion of State Cadets during last year of the Civil 
War, chiefly engaged in the defence of Charleston. Graduated from Furman University in 1867; came 
to California in 1868 and assumed the work of public-school teaching, in which he has continued for 
thirty-eight years; Principal Santa Rosa High School from 1874 to 1884; for twenty-two years past mem. 
of faculty of the State Normal School, Los Angeles; in 1906 and 1909, elected a member of the Los 
Angeles Board of Education; Auditor of the great Los Angeles Aqueduct from the beginning of the 
enterprise to July 1st, 1910, Elected Asst. Supt. of Schools for Los Angeles City in June 1910. Has been 
a Deacon in the Baptist church since 1874.


SOURCE: Greater Los Angeles & Southern California Portraits & Personal Memoranda, Lewis Publishing 
Company, 1910, P.148