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* Source 1 : History of Stark County: with an outline sketch of
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Chicago: Baskin & Battey, 1881
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Portrait &
Biographical Record of Stark County, Ohio
Chicago - Chapman Bros. - 1892
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DALES, M. D., physician; Alliance; was born
in Brownsville, Pa., Aug. 26, 1827. He is of English
descent; his grandfather, Henry Dales, emigrated from
Bath, England, to the United States, with his family of
several children, and located at Brownsville, Fayette Co.,
Pa. He was a practical tanner, and established an
industry of that kind in Brownsville shortly after his
arrival. One of the family, John, removed to
the West, and located at St. Louis, Mo., and was engaged as
Cashier of the first Bank ever established in that city.
William was about 16 years of age when they came to
this country; he married Mary Stewart in Brownsville;
they were parents of fourteen children, of whom our subject
is a fifth son; eleven lived to years of maturity.
William Dales, with his family, removed to Ohio, in
1838, and settled in Columbiana Co., where he engaged in
farming; and amid the various duties of the farm and pioneer
life, and with all diligence as to their education, the
youths arrived at maturity. Early in life Dr. Dales
united himself with the Methodist Episcopal Church, and
prepared for the work of the ministry. His first
charge was the church at Honover, Ohio, and from the
Pittsburg Conference he was appointed to the Central Ohio
Conference. Fifteen years of his life was spent in
active, earnest work in behalf of the church, when, on
account of impaired health, he was obliged to withdraw from
ministerial labor. During these years of ministerial
work he applied himself studiously, acquiring a through
knowledge of medicine, and when his voice became affected
through preaching, he entered upon the practice of medicine
near Limaville, this county, in 1863. For a time he
was also deeply interested in the development of excellent
coal mines, in which his farm proves to be quite valuable.
September, 1850, he married Cynthia A. Kemble, of
Columbiana Co., Ohio. They have had five children,
viz. - Kemble B., of Wellsville; Wilbur F.,
a conductor on the P., Ft. W. & C. R. R.; Oscar L.,
a practicing physician of Bryan, Ohio; and Carrie B.;
Ora D., deceased in childhood. They removed
from the farm to Alliance in 1879, where the doctor continues
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BENJAMIN DOLL, a native of
this county, has done much important pioneer work. He
has passed the sixtieth milestone that marks an honorable
life, and is still keenly interested in farming and
stock-raising. His estate, is amply supplied with
commodious buildings for every purpose, and he is regarded
as one of the prominent men in his community, and has many
warm friends who esteem him highly for his sterling worth.
Mr. Doll was born July 27, 1827, in this
county, and is a son of John and Elizabeth (Risher)
Doll, natives, respectively, of Pennsylvania and
Maryland. His mother, when nine years of age, in 1809,
emigrated to Stark County in company with her parents, and
during her life could relate many an interesting tale of
pioneer life in the new State. In that early day, the
family were often compelled to flee to the block-houses in
order to protect themselves from the Indians.
John Doll, the father of our subject,
emigrated to this State with his parents in 1814, the family
locating in Osnaburg Township, this county, making their
home in a log cabin in the woods. Of his large family
of children, the following survive: Our subject,
Josiah, Frank, Isaac, George and Eli.
His of whom we write was reared to man's estate in this
county, and received a practical education in the common
schools Many an acre of raw prairie land has he broken
with the old-time plow, drawn by oxen, and with the ox-team
hauled grain to market in those days. In his youth he
was inured to hard labor, but thereby developed
self-reliance and force of character, which have proved of
incalculable benefit to him in later years.
The lady of whom our subject was united in marriage in 1857
was known in her maidenhood as Miss Catherine Fisher,
and to them was born a family of eight children:
Josiah, Flora, Denison, Logan, Melville, Cora, Albert,
and Kent. The wife and mother
departed this life May 14, 1888, and the lady whom
Mr. Doll chose for his second wife was Mary
A., a daughter of John Jeffers, a
resident of this township.
In
the spring of 1852, the original of this sketch went to
California, taking passage on a steamer from the harbor of
New York City, and landed after a voyage of one month in San
Francisco. He remained in the Golden State for three
years, and was engaged in mining with fair success. He
has since visited California on three different occasions,
but always returns well satisfied with his home in the
Buckeye State.
Mr. Doll
is the proprietor of one hundred and sixty acres of valuable
land which his industry and enterprise have placed
under excellent village, and from which he reaps a
comfortable income. In politics, he is a stanch
Republican, warmly advocating the principles of that party,
and does all in his power to advance its interests. He
has served acceptably as School Director in his district,
and is a member of the Perry Grange at Massillon.
Mr. Doll is a man of sensible opinions on
all subjects with which he is conversant, his dealings are
always on the square, and his credit in money matters, as in
all things whatsoever, is sound.
Source 2:
Portrait &
Biographical Record of Stark County, Ohio - Chicago - Chapman Bros. - 1892
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JOHN
H. DWYER. Conspicuous among the representative
citizens of Stark County, Ohio, now prominent in their
different callings, none have been more successful or
displayed more good judgment in the management of their
affairs than the gentleman whose name is mentioned above.
Although formerly a very prominent agriculturist of the
county, and a man whose good sense on all matters relating
to the farm was recognized by all, he is at present an
active member of the Empire Clay Company.
Mr. Dwyer claims Michigan as his native State
and was born near Dexter, Washtenaw County, on the 15th of
Sept., 1842. He is of Irish parentage, his parents,
James and Mary (Bahan) Dwyer, being natives of that
country. Like many others of that much down-trodden
race, the elder Mr. Dwyer's day dream was for liberty
and the right to cope with his fellow-men on an equal
footing in the battle of life, and as a consequence, when
seventeen years of age, he emigrated to the "land of the
free." The mother was but seven years of age when she
emigrated with her parents to America and settled with them
in Michigan. After marriage, the parents of our
subject moved to La Port County, Ind., and there made their
home for many years. There the father's death occurred
in 1860.
The original of this notice was fifth in order of birth
of a large family, and it fell on him to assist his mother
in taking care of the younger children, after the death of
the father. In 1869, he went to South Bend, Ind., and
when twenty-eight years of age was married there, on the 7th
day of May, 1872, to Catherine L. Maudru, a native of
Stark County, Ohio, born Oct. 13, 1845, but who was residing
in South Bend at the time of her marriage. Our subject
made his home in South Bend until 1878, after which he went
to Poweshiek County, Iowa, and bought eighty acres of wild
land. This he immediately began improving and here he
continued to reside for twelve years. On the 1st of
April, 1890, he left the farm, although he still owns it and
moved to Louisville, where he became the fourth partner in
his present business. He is wide-awake and
enterprising and one of the foremost men of the county.
His marriage was blessed by the birth of seven
children, viz: Mary A. born Apr. 24, 1875, at South
Bend, Ind.; John Joseph, born in South Bend, Ind., on
the 21st of March, 1876; Florence, born in Poweshiek
County, Iowa, Mar. 4, 1879; Charles, born in the same
county, Dec. 27, 1882; James, born in that county in
1885; Lewis, born in the same county, Nov. 27, 1887;
and Rosetta, born in Louisville, Ohio, on the 22d of
June, 1891. The subject of this sketch is a member of
the Holy Catholic Church and was confirmed at the age of
seventeen. His two eldest children have also been
confirmed. Mr. Dwyer is a member of the
Catholic Mutual Benefit Association, and he is also a member
of the Ancient Order of Hibernians.
Source: Portrait and Biographical Record of Stark
County, Ohio - Publ. Chicago: Chapman Bros. - 1892 |
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