Henry E. Dosch
Henry Ernst Dosch was a Germanborn immigrant who served in the American Civil War and later became a successful merchant, horticulturist and author in Portland, Oregon, United States. Dosch served as the Commissioner General and Director of Exhibits for the 1905 Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition and Oriental Fair in Portland.
Dosch was born on June 17, 1841 in Kastel, Germany and was one of seven children born to Colonel John B. Dosch and his wife Anna , a sister of Adolphus Busch. Dosch attended the Gewerbeschule fr Handel und Industrie, graduating in April 1857. Dosch then apprenticed at a large oil importing house in Mainz until January 1860. On January 17, Dosch sailed for America and made his way to St. Louis, Missouri where he worked as a bookkeeper until the start of the Civil War.
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