Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 7th ed.,
Kenton Co.

JOHN DORSEL, of Covington, Ky., was born in Prussia, Germany, December
31, 1832, came to the United States in 1854, and took up residence in
Covington in 1855.  Although he had little or nothing with which to
begin a business life, by industry he accumulated sufficient means to
start, in 1869, in partnership with Frank Wuttange, in the manufacture
of rye whisky [sic], and succeeded in establishing the largest distillery
in Covington, and now owns a plat of fifty acres in the county, and
considerable real estate within the city limits, notwithstanding the
loss, by fire, of his distillery in the spring of 1887.  He is a member
of the Catholic Church, and from 1878 to 1880 was president of the
orphan society.  His first marriage was to Elizabeth Curry, a native of
Oldenberg, Germany, who died in 1877, the mother of five children, viz:
Frank, Louisa, John, August and Josephine.  His second marriage was in
1878 to Miss Minnie Staggenberg, of Germany, who bore him four children:
Louise, Fred, Mary and Nettie.

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