Los Angeles-El Dorado-Mariposa County CA Archives Biographies.....Dobson, Robert Crawford 1836 - 
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Author: Luther A. Ingersoll (1908)

    ROBERT CRAWFORD DOBSON is a typical California pioneer. He came overland to
California in 1850 via the northern route; that is, along the north fork of the
Platte River from Platte County, Mo. He was born in Greyson County, Va., June
26th, 1836. His father, Robert Dobson, was a potter by trade, who raised two
sons and seven daughters. Robert Crawford left home when a boy and lived with a
sister. At thirteen years of age he joined the rush to California, a result of
the discovery of gold. He mined gold in the placer diggings at Hangtown, later
at Agua Trio, in Mariposa County. He came south to Los Angeles in 1860 and was
appointed jailer of Los Angeles County by Sheriff Thomas Sanchez, who was in
office at the time of the unofficial hanging of Laschenes and the occurence of
the Chinese riot. He served eight years in this capacity and was later on the
city police force several years under William Warrens, who as marshal, was Chief
of Police. He left Los Angeles about 1887 and has for some years past lived at
Santa Monica His present and permanent home is at Irwin Heights

    Mr. Dobson married Miss Marcalie Melindrus, a native of Los Angeles County,
and they have two living children—Mary, who is Mrs. C. E. Towner, and Virginia.


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Ingersoll's century history, Santa Monica Bay cities: prefaced with a brief
history of the state of California, a condensed history of Los Angeles County,
1542 to 1908: supplemented with an encyclopedia of local biography and
embellished with views of historic landmarks and portraits of representative
people.

Los Angeles: Luther A. Ingersoll (1908)


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