 He was a charter member of the Knights of Columbus.One of his sons, Thomas A. J. Dockweiler, would also receive knighthood later as a Knight Commander of Saint Gregory (KCSG).In 1931 Dockweiler was instrumental in having a statue of Junípero Serra, the founder of the first Spanish missions in California and their Mission Indian Reductions, placed in Statuary Hall in Washington, D.C.