Chatham County GaArchives Biographies.....Dorsett, Charles H. unknown - living in 1913
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Author: William Harden
p. 652-653

   CHARLES H. DORSETT, engaged in the real estate and auction business and
president of the Peoples' Savings & Loan Company, is a man whose life has been
of unceasing activity and perseverance and the systematic and honorable methods
which he has followed have won him the unbounded confidence of his fellow
citizens in Savannah. In 1876 he became established in his present business,
which he has ever since conducted. This is one of the oldest established
institutions of its kind in Savannah. Among his other distinctions, Mr. Dorsett
is a gallant ex-soldier, and he finds no small amount of pleasure and profit in
renewing the old comradeship with those who carried arms with him in the
troublous days of the '60s.

   Mr. Dorsett is a native son of the city and one of those who have paid it the
greatest compliment within their power by electing to remain permanently within
its borders. He is the son of John and Sarah R. (Fletcher) Dorsett. His father
was born in New York City and came to Savannah as early as 1839. He was a ship
builder by occupation and had a large shipyard on the Savannah river. At the age
of eleven months the subject had the misfortune to lose his father, but his
mother survived her husband for many years, her summons to the Great Beyond
occurring in 1893. Through his mother, Mr. Dorsett comes of an older Southern
family; this admirable lady was born in Georgia and her parents were natives of
South Carolina.

   Young Charles was reared in Savannah and in its schools received his
education. At the outbreak of the war between the states he was only in his
teens, but his heart was with the cause of the South, and he believed in the
supreme right of the states to sever their connection with the national
government. As soon as possible he enlisted and during the latter part of the
war was a member of Shellman's battalion, which was in service in Savannah and
vicinity. For some years after the affair at Appomattox he was engaged in
various occupations, but in 1876, as previously mentioned, he inaugurated his
present real estate and auction business. Besides the agency business Mr.
Dorsett is the owner of substantial property interests in Savannah and for more
than twenty years he has been president of the Peoples' Savings & Loan Society,
which makes loans on real estate and is well and favorably known to business men
of the Forest city.

   Mr. Dorsett is of sufficient social proclivity to find pleasure in his
fraternal relations, and he enjoys membership in DeKalb lodge of Odd Fellows and
of Landrum lodge of Masons. He was for one term a member of the board of county
commissioners of Chatham county. He is intelligent and progressive and has the
respect of the community in which he is so well known and in which his interests
have always been centered.

   Mr. Dorsett laid the foundations of a happy married life by his union in the
year 1869, to Miss Josephine Frances Gross, of this city, where their nuptials
were celebrated. They have one daughter, Mrs. J. E. D. Bacon, of Savannah.


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A HISTORY OF SAVANNAH AND SOUTH GEORGIA
BY
WILLIAM HARDEN

VOLUME I
ILLUSTRATED
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
CHICAGO AND NEW YORK
1913

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