Death and birth year on Millenium file found on Ancestry.com
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(Published in History of Idaho: The Gem of the Mountains Vol. 3 by James H. Hawley 1920)

J. Wesley Dotson, a wheat raiser of Canyon county and also engaged in the production of the famous Idaho potatoes, was born in Kansas, November 8, 1856, his parents being Pleasant and Mary (Campbell) Dotson, who were natives of Tennessee and soon after their marriage removed to Kansas. The father purchased a farm in the Sunflower state and there carried on the work of tilling the soil until 1905, when he came to Idaho with his family and homesteaded one hundred and sixty acres of wild land two miles northwest of the farm upon which his son J. Wesley now resides. There his attention was given to the cultivation of the fields and the care of his crops until his life's labors ended on the 6th of December, 1917. For a long period he had survived his wife, who passed away in Kansas in 1895.

J. Wesley Dotson was reared and educated in the Sunflower state and there remained until he was thirty-eight years of age. He then came with his father to the northwest and homesteaded eighty acres of land and is still residing upon forty acres of that tract. He has sold the other forty. He and his father cleared the land and placed it under cultivation and he now produces annually good crops of both potatoes and wheat. His fields are naturally rich and productive and respond readily to the care and labor which he bestows upon them.

In 1899 Mr. Dotson was united in marriage to Miss Blanche Smith, a native of Nebraska, in which state the wedding was celebrated. They have become the parents of seven children: Terry F., eighteen years of age; Mary E., at home; Alice S., who is attending the Huston district school; Mabel L., also in school; Amy M.; Prances D.; and Orval P., who is but a year old. This is an exceptionally bright family of which the parents have every reason to be proud.

Mr. Dotson is bending his efforts and energies to the further development and improvement of his land in order to provide a good living for those dependent upon him, and he is meeting with substantial success in his undertakings.