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From the Monroe News Courier of March 7, 1916:
Dorsch Memorial Library Opened to Public Last Night
The beautiful new Dorsch Memorial Library was formally opened to the public last evening, with services fitting to commemorate the appreciation of the valuable gift.
There were about seventy-five people who gathered to enjoy the evening's program…
Mr. Dorsch often expressed the wish that the home should some day become a library. After his death, Mrs. Dorsch pondered over whether it should be an Old Folk's Home, a Masonic Home or a hospital. She finally decided to carry out the wishes of her husband and willed it to the city for a library, with practically the only restriction being, that the room on the right, as one entered be kept for a ladies rest room, as it now is…
Supt. E.E. Gallup spoke for a few minutes. Among other things he said: "A library is the place where we may commune with saints, saviors, philosophers and master minds of the past and present." [1]
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- Monroe News Courier newspaper, March 7, 1916. As quoted in "History of the Dorsch Memorial Branch Library" at the Monroe County Library System website. Retrieved August 22, 2016.
