Detailed biography: Nancy Groce: Musical Instrument Makers of New York. Pendragon Press, Stuyvesant, NY, 1991, p.42 ; Philip F. Gura, James F. Bollman: America's Instrument. The Banjo in the Nineteenth Century. The University of North Carolina Press, 1999, pp.6-7 ; David Politzer: ... the Dobson Great Echo ..., (p.4).
Miscellaneous information
Born in Williamsburg, Brooklyn; left New York for Boston in 1869. "He should not be confused with his nephew of the same name who later joined Henry C. [Dobson], [...], in the firm Dobson & Son." (Nancy Groce, s.a.) Brother of Henry Clay Dobson (1832-1908).
