Adam Dobson was the 4th son of William Adam Dobson (of Selkirk, Selkirkshire, Scotland) & Margaret Muldoon (of Belfast, Ireland); he was one of 10 children - 7 boys and 3 girls.
Adam the father had come to Elora, Nichol Twp, County of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada from Scotland in about 1850, carrying on the family trade as a "woollen manufacturer", marrying Margaret Muldoon in Guelph, Wellington, Ontario on 13 Feb 1851.
Adam was the 7th child of this union, born in McKillop Twp, Huron county in Ontario.
He moved with his family (at that time his father, mother, & 3 younger brothers) in about 1873 to Delaware Twp, Sanilac, Michigan.
The Great Thumb Fire of 5 Sep 1881 destroyed the family property in Delaware Twp., and it is thought there was an attempt to rebuild. His father died 3 years later in 1884 in Delaware Twp, and his widowed mother Margaret lived with her remaining sons on the family farm till April 1888, when she may have remarried.
Adam had been married a month earlier in Forestville - March 1888 - to Mary Ann Orton. They started a family, having 2 children in Sanilac County before moving up further into the mid-Thumb area of Lincoln Twp in Huron County by about 1892-93, finding 80 acres to start a farm settlement which they purchased from Langdon Hubbard, who was one of the area's more substantial landowners, having a total of almost 8 sections of acreage in Lincoln Twp. alone. Adam & Mary Ann re-commenced the farming life, and had two more children by 1896.
Adam became known for his hard work and the road in front of his farm became known as Dobson Rd., called by that name even today. He started the Dobson School, the District for which was created in 1894, and the school was located across the street kitty-corner from the Dobson farm*, on the SW corner of the intersection of Dobson and Tomlinson roads. He was still one of it's trustees in 1903-1905.
His wife Mary Ann died 18 Jul 1909 in Filion. She was interred in the New River Cemetery in Port Austin.
Adam remarried on 21 Feb 1910 to Katherine "Katie" Englehart, a young 22 year old local woman, the daughter of Joseph W. Englehart (of Germany) & Barbara Heck (of Canada).
They went on to have 10 children, 9 who survived to adulthood.
After a long fruitful life of farming and raising 13 children, Adam went to his reward in the spring of 1950.
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*The Dobson farm exists today, at the current address of 3115 Dobson Rd.
Adam the father had come to Elora, Nichol Twp, County of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada from Scotland in about 1850, carrying on the family trade as a "woollen manufacturer", marrying Margaret Muldoon in Guelph, Wellington, Ontario on 13 Feb 1851.
Adam was the 7th child of this union, born in McKillop Twp, Huron county in Ontario.
He moved with his family (at that time his father, mother, & 3 younger brothers) in about 1873 to Delaware Twp, Sanilac, Michigan.
The Great Thumb Fire of 5 Sep 1881 destroyed the family property in Delaware Twp., and it is thought there was an attempt to rebuild. His father died 3 years later in 1884 in Delaware Twp, and his widowed mother Margaret lived with her remaining sons on the family farm till April 1888, when she may have remarried.
Adam had been married a month earlier in Forestville - March 1888 - to Mary Ann Orton. They started a family, having 2 children in Sanilac County before moving up further into the mid-Thumb area of Lincoln Twp in Huron County by about 1892-93, finding 80 acres to start a farm settlement which they purchased from Langdon Hubbard, who was one of the area's more substantial landowners, having a total of almost 8 sections of acreage in Lincoln Twp. alone. Adam & Mary Ann re-commenced the farming life, and had two more children by 1896.
Adam became known for his hard work and the road in front of his farm became known as Dobson Rd., called by that name even today. He started the Dobson School, the District for which was created in 1894, and the school was located across the street kitty-corner from the Dobson farm*, on the SW corner of the intersection of Dobson and Tomlinson roads. He was still one of it's trustees in 1903-1905.
His wife Mary Ann died 18 Jul 1909 in Filion. She was interred in the New River Cemetery in Port Austin.
Adam remarried on 21 Feb 1910 to Katherine "Katie" Englehart, a young 22 year old local woman, the daughter of Joseph W. Englehart (of Germany) & Barbara Heck (of Canada).
They went on to have 10 children, 9 who survived to adulthood.
After a long fruitful life of farming and raising 13 children, Adam went to his reward in the spring of 1950.
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*The Dobson farm exists today, at the current address of 3115 Dobson Rd.
Adam Dobson was the 4th son of William Adam Dobson (of Selkirk, Selkirkshire, Scotland) & Margaret Muldoon (of Belfast, Ireland); he was one of 10 children - 7 boys and 3 girls.
Adam the father had come to Elora, Nichol Twp, County of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada from Scotland in about 1850, carrying on the family trade as a "woollen manufacturer", marrying Margaret Muldoon in Guelph, Wellington, Ontario on 13 Feb 1851.
Adam was the 7th child of this union, born in McKillop Twp, Huron county in Ontario.
He moved with his family (at that time his father, mother, & 3 younger brothers) in about 1873 to Delaware Twp, Sanilac, Michigan.
The Great Thumb Fire of 5 Sep 1881 destroyed the family property in Delaware Twp., and it is thought there was an attempt to rebuild. His father died 3 years later in 1884 in Delaware Twp, and his widowed mother Margaret lived with her remaining sons on the family farm till April 1888, when she may have remarried.
Adam had been married a month earlier in Forestville - March 1888 - to Mary Ann Orton. They started a family, having 2 children in Sanilac County before moving up further into the mid-Thumb area of Lincoln Twp in Huron County by about 1892-93, finding 80 acres to start a farm settlement which they purchased from Langdon Hubbard, who was one of the area's more substantial landowners, having a total of almost 8 sections of acreage in Lincoln Twp. alone. Adam & Mary Ann re-commenced the farming life, and had two more children by 1896.
Adam became known for his hard work and the road in front of his farm became known as Dobson Rd., called by that name even today. He started the Dobson School, the District for which was created in 1894, and the school was located across the street kitty-corner from the Dobson farm*, on the SW corner of the intersection of Dobson and Tomlinson roads. He was still one of it's trustees in 1903-1905.
His wife Mary Ann died 18 Jul 1909 in Filion. She was interred in the New River Cemetery in Port Austin.
Adam remarried on 21 Feb 1910 to Katherine "Katie" Englehart, a young 22 year old local woman, the daughter of Joseph W. Englehart (of Germany) & Barbara Heck (of Canada).
They went on to have 10 children, 9 who survived to adulthood.
After a long fruitful life of farming and raising 13 children, Adam went to his reward in the spring of 1950.
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*The Dobson farm exists today, at the current address of 3115 Dobson Rd.
Adam the father had come to Elora, Nichol Twp, County of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada from Scotland in about 1850, carrying on the family trade as a "woollen manufacturer", marrying Margaret Muldoon in Guelph, Wellington, Ontario on 13 Feb 1851.
Adam was the 7th child of this union, born in McKillop Twp, Huron county in Ontario.
He moved with his family (at that time his father, mother, & 3 younger brothers) in about 1873 to Delaware Twp, Sanilac, Michigan.
The Great Thumb Fire of 5 Sep 1881 destroyed the family property in Delaware Twp., and it is thought there was an attempt to rebuild. His father died 3 years later in 1884 in Delaware Twp, and his widowed mother Margaret lived with her remaining sons on the family farm till April 1888, when she may have remarried.
Adam had been married a month earlier in Forestville - March 1888 - to Mary Ann Orton. They started a family, having 2 children in Sanilac County before moving up further into the mid-Thumb area of Lincoln Twp in Huron County by about 1892-93, finding 80 acres to start a farm settlement which they purchased from Langdon Hubbard, who was one of the area's more substantial landowners, having a total of almost 8 sections of acreage in Lincoln Twp. alone. Adam & Mary Ann re-commenced the farming life, and had two more children by 1896.
Adam became known for his hard work and the road in front of his farm became known as Dobson Rd., called by that name even today. He started the Dobson School, the District for which was created in 1894, and the school was located across the street kitty-corner from the Dobson farm*, on the SW corner of the intersection of Dobson and Tomlinson roads. He was still one of it's trustees in 1903-1905.
His wife Mary Ann died 18 Jul 1909 in Filion. She was interred in the New River Cemetery in Port Austin.
Adam remarried on 21 Feb 1910 to Katherine "Katie" Englehart, a young 22 year old local woman, the daughter of Joseph W. Englehart (of Germany) & Barbara Heck (of Canada).
They went on to have 10 children, 9 who survived to adulthood.
After a long fruitful life of farming and raising 13 children, Adam went to his reward in the spring of 1950.
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*The Dobson farm exists today, at the current address of 3115 Dobson Rd.
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