Commemorative biographical record of Tolland and Windham counties, Connecticut : containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens and of many of the early settled families . Dobson, the father of Mrs. CharlotteGoodrich, came from Preston, England, in 1809, tointroduce cotton manufacturing in Vernon. He wasa man of scientific taste and attainment. In Journal of Art and Science, July, 1842,page 200, he is spoken of in the highest terms bySir Robert Impay Murchison, president of the Geo-logical Society of London, as the first proposer ofthe present universa
Commemorative biographical record of Tolland and Windham counties, Connecticut : containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens and of many of the early settled families . Dobson, the father of Mrs. CharlotteGoodrich, came from Preston, England, in 1809, tointroduce cotton manufacturing in Vernon. He wasa man of scientific taste and attainment. In Journal of Art and Science, July, 1842,page 200, he is spoken of in the highest terms bySir Robert Impay Murchison, president of the Geo-logical Society of London, as the first proposer ofthe present universally accepted theory of the wearof rocks and boulders by being suspended in ice,and carried over rocks and earth under water, andAmerican science is congratulated in having pos-sessed in him the original author of the best glacialtheory yet known to the world. In business and commercial relations, ]\Ir. Dob-son was a man of strict integrity and honor. He re-ceived from his neighbors many evidences of theiresteem and trust. In political days he began as aDemocrat, but sup]3orted Henry Clay. In many re-spects he was an uncommon man. Of an unusualmental endowment, he had also a physique of large. c ^^^
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