Edward D. Dobbins is said to have practiced law in Fort Smith (Sebastian County), Arkansas about 1920. Nothing else is known about him.
Sources: Judith Kilpatrick, “(EXTRA)Ordinary Men: African-American Lawyers and Civil Rights in Arkansas Before 1950,” 53 Ark. Law Rev. 299, 348 n354, 375 (2000); J. Clay Smith, Jr., EMANCIPATION: The Making of the Black Lawyer, 1844-1944 (1993);