The Collector Antiques has dated this Antique Clergyman Portrait Painting to the 1920s.
He studied music in Durham and London, gaining a music degree in 1890. The 1891 Census lists him as teaching at Ann Crook's School in Hartlepool.
He worked as a church organist before being ordained in the Episcopal Church as a Deacon in 1898 and as a priest in 1900. He started his clerical career as a missionary in Wyoming, where he built churches in Douglas and Lusk.
In 1905 he was named Archdeacon of Western Michigan After spending a year in charge of the English Cathedral in Gibraltar he returned to the USA as Archdeacon of Southern Ohio. It was while preaching in Zanesville, Ohio, that he met his future wife, Carsonette K Porter.
He was the author of a number of books, including a guide to family prayer. The first Mrs Dodshon died in 1939. Dr Dodshon married again in 1945, to Mrs Else Lamb, whom he had met many years previously when Carsonette Dodshon had been taken ill on the way to Liverpool and was nursed at the home at which Mrs Lamb was matron. They settled in Zanesville in 1947, and Dr Dodshon died in July 1948 whilst visiting relatives of Mrs Dodshon in Cheshire.
The Collector Antiques has dated this Antique Clergyman Portrait Painting to the 1920s.
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1920s Oil on Canvas Painting 'Portrait of a Clergyman'
