Dorman, Orloff M. (Orloff Mather), 1809-1879

found: NUCMC data from Library of Congress Manuscript Division for His Papers, 1864-1886(Orloff M. Dorman; Northerner living in Jacksonville, Fla., during the Civil War)

found: WWW Dictionary of Virginia biography, viewed Oct. 10, 2018(Orloff Mather Dorman; born as Orlow Mather Dorman on Jan. 7, 1809, in Wilbraham, Mass.; died June 16, 1879, in Norfolk, Va.; judge of the Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals; studied law in Albany, N.Y.; moved to Saint Augustine, Fla.; practiced law in Jacksonville, 1835-40, and in Saint Augustine, 1840-47; During his time in Jacksonville he served for three months as a lieutenant and one year as a cavalry captain and regimental adjutant in the Second Seminole War; in 1847 Dorman moved his legal practice to Chicago, Ill.; returned to Florida by 1853; loyal to the Union, he moved to Washington, D.C.; involved in efforts to restore Florida; joined the Union Army as a paymaster, 1862-66; petitioned the Southern Claims Commission seeking compensation for Union officers' occupation of his Saint Augustine home from 1862 to 1865; settled in Norfolk, Va.; shortly after leaving the army. Despite his background as a native of New England and a Union veteran, he enjoyed remarkable success appointed to the Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals in 1869)