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Representative Ebenezer Dorr View All Years

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Compiled Historical Information
Date of Death: 2/9/1902
Birth Place: Erie County, New York
Party Affiliation:
Democrat
Republican
Assemblies Served:
House: 9 (1862) - 10 (1864)
15 (1874)
Home County: Jackson
Clinton
Ebenezer Dorr
Clinton County
One of the early settlers of Jackson county and for many years a resident of De Witt, Clinton county. He was one of the pioneers of the Hawkeye state and a member of the legislature from Jackson county and subsequently represented Clinton County in the same body. Mr. Dorr was well known by the early settlers of Maquoketa and taught the first school of this place in what was called the old root school house. In the early fifties he was married to Miss Catherine Earle, daughter of W. G. Earle. He was a man of the strictest integrity, high moral standing and more than ordinary ability.
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