Scrapbooks: Dorsey Sons

Thomas Beale (left) and Caleb Dorsey
b.1831, MD - d. 1910, CA (Thomas)
b. 1833, MD - d. 1896, CA (Caleb)

St. Louis photo of two very young and immature boys, certainly prior to the more mature picture below — probably taken about 1850

John Worthington Dorsey
b. 1827, MD - d. 1893

Photo, taken in St. Louis, may have been taken prior to his migration to California in 1850 when he was 23, young and robust.

Caleb Dorsey
b. 1833, MD - d. 1896, CA

Photograph taken in St. Louis, Pre-Civil War period, about 1860.

John Worthington Dorsey
b. 1827, MD - d. 1893, CA

A much more mature J W Dorsey from the young man pictured above. Taken in California after a rugged life, plagued with ill health.