Career
Dosch served as the Commissioner General and Director of Exhibits for the 1905 Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition and Oriental Fair in Portland. Dosch attended the Gewerbeschule für Handel und Industrie, graduating in April 1857. Dosch then apprenticed at a large oil importing house in Mainz until January 1860.
On January 17, Dosch sailed for America and made his way to Saint Louis, Missouri where he worked as a bookkeeper until the start of the Civil War.
Dosch was then promoted to sergeant of Company C, then sergeant-major of the regiment and then adjutant, and for the last three months he was acting colonel. On the consolidation of the two regiments, in 1863, he resigned his position and retired from the service.
