"An Illustrated History of Whitman County, state of Washington." San Francisco: W. H. Lever, 1901. p. 332. WILLIAM DOTY a farmer residing three miles north of Pullman, was born in Pennsylvania, on June 7, 1823. He grew to man's estate there, acquiring a rudimentary education and afterward working on a farm. In 1844 he went to Wayne county, Ohio, where his home was for the ensuing twelvemonth, but at the end of that period he became a resident of Indiana. He farmed there for seven years, but eventually his health failed and he was obliged to try the effect of a different climate and environment. He went to Clayton county, Iowa, where he was numbered among the tillers of the soil for a period of fifteen years. He then spent six years in Kansas, thereafter, in 1876, coming to the territory of Washington. He settled on a quarter section of land in the vicinity of Pullman not far from where we now find him, and engaged in farming again, resuming under new conditions the occupation he had followed for so many years in various parts of the east. He is a successful ranchman, a good citizen and an esteemed member of society. In religion our subject adheres to the faith of the United Brethren church. His marriage to Miss Susana Crull was solemnized on January 7, 1849, and to this union thirteen children were born: Levi, married and living in Idaho; Delilah, wife of Sylvester Gaspey, and a resident of Walla Walla; William, married and living in California; Sarah, wife of Phoenix Nichols, and living in the same neighborhood with her father; Samuel, married and residing in Idaho; Mary, married Henry Lingg and is a resident of Whitman county; Lincoln, also married and a resident of the neighborhood; Abigal married Ira Bader and is a resident of Pullman; Muloy married Herman Schriber and is a resident of Portland, Oregon; Grant is married also and resides in the county: Elizabeth married John Carns and resides in Idaho; and Nancy married Theodore Glaspy and resides in Oregon. ******************* Submitted to the Washington Biographies Project in October 2011 by Diana Smith. Submitter has no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned above.