DORSETT, A. D.
Commemorative and Biographical Record of Columbia, Sauk and Adams Counties, 
WI. Chicago: Ogle, 1901, p 718-719

A. D. DORSETT was born in Schuyler County, IL, 02 May 1867. His early years 
were spent on a farm, and he attended country school during the winter 
months. In 1883 his father retired from the stock raising business and moved 
to Rushville [Schuyler County, IL, or Rush County, IN?], where the son had 
the privilege of attending an excellent high school and from which he [p 719] 
graduated in 1886 as the valedictorian of his class. In the fall of 1886 Mr. 
DORSETT entered the preparatory school of DePauw University at Greencastle 
[Putnam County], IN, and two years later was admitted to the freshman class. 
He graduated from the institution in 1892 with the degree of Ph. B. Mr. 
DORSETT's newspaper experience began in his early teens when, seated on a 
plow while the horse rested, he wrote items for a county paper. During his 
junior year in college he was exchange editor of one of the college weeklies 
and during his senior year was editor-in-chief of the paper. At that time he 
was also president of the Indiana College Press Association and chairman of 
the executive board of the Western College Press Association. After school 
days were ended he spent two years in newspaper work in Alton [Sioux County], 
IA, and in La Crosse [LaCrosse County], WI, and in 1894 became a partner in 
the publication of the Baraboo daily and weekly "News." On 23 May 1894, Mr. 
DORSETT was united in marriage to Miss Addie Lane PRIEST, of Greencastle 
[Putnam County], IN, with whom he became acquainted while in college. To 
them one daughter, Dorothy D., was born 16 Jun 1897.

Contributed by Cathy Kubly