Dorsey, Jesse Hook
manufacturer, was born in 1849, in Beallsville, Pa. He purchased and conducted the Tampa Lumber company, the largest lumber manufacturing business in Florida.
DORSEY, MRS. SARAH ANNE ELLIS, author. She was the amanuensis of Jefferson Davis, to whom she bequeathed her estate of Beauvoir on the Gulf of Mexico, where he died. She was the author of Lucia Dare; Agnes Graham, both stories of the civil war; Panola, a tale of Louisiana; Atalie, or a Southern Villeggiatura; and Life of Governor Allen of Louisiana. She died July 4, 1879, in New Orleans, La.