When Dorcas C Philbrick was born on 7 October 1820, in Buckfield, Oxford, Maine, United States, her father, Enoch Philbrick, was 45 and her mother, Sarah Buck, was 43. She married Freeman H Hathaway on 21 October 1846, in Minot, Androscoggin, Maine, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Bath, Sagadahoc, Maine, United States in 1880 and Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States in 1894. She died on 2 August 1894, in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, at the age of 73, and was buried in Maine, United States.