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The History of Jefferon County
Chapter LVIII
DINSMORE, MARION J.,son of Robert and Mary Dinsmore,was born in Petersburg,Huntingdon county,May 12,1837.
His mother was a daughter of Thomas Johnson,Centre county, to whom his father was married on the 22d day of January, 1835.
Robert Dinsmore was born in Boalsburg,Centre county,March 22,1805,his father having emigrated from Ireland about the close of the Revolution,and settled in Centre county.He afterwards served in the War of 1812,and was honorably discharged at its close.
He died in Boalsburg.
Mr.Robert Dinsmore removed to Huntingdon county in 1833. Before he left Centre county he was engaged in cattle droving,and visited the western counties of the State, purchasing stock for the eastern markets.He engaged in farming in Huntingdon,for a few years,and removed to Armstrong county,where he purchased a farm about four miles from Kittanning,where he resided until his death,which occurred December 23, 1853.His wife survived him a number of years,residing during the later years of her life with her son,Marion,at Punxsutawney,where she died,aged about sixty-five years.The family consisted of nine children, seven sons and two daughters,of whom four sons and one daughter are living.
Marion was the eldest child,and at his father's death the care of the family devolved upon him.The estate was found to be in a bad condition,encumbered with debts that threatened to involve the entire property;but though a boy in years,young Marion Dinsmore put his shoulders to the wheel,cleared off all the indebtedness,stocked the farm, put it in a good state of cultivation,making it one of the best in the neighborhood.
When the war-cloud burst upon the country,young Dinsmore promptly enlisted in Company K,Seventy-eighth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers.While on picket he was prostrated by typhoid pneumonia,which came near ending his life,and his recovery left him so debilitated,that his discharge from the service was necessary.In June, 1863, he returned home, and finally recovered.
He then determined to seek some other calling besides farming, nd entered the Iron City College,at Pittsburgh, the winter of 1863 and 1864,and graduated therefrom May, 1864.This was the turning point in Mr.Dinsmore's career,to which he attributes all his future business success.To Rev. Mr. Harvey, Professor Smith, of the Iron City college, and other kind friends,he will ever feel the warmest feelings of gratitude for the great interest they took in the broken down soldier boy.
After finishing his course at the college Mr.Dinsmore engaged in cattle droving,in order to build up his strength by out-door exercise,and afterwards was employed as a clerk in Ross & Nechling's general store in Kittanning.
In April, 1865,he removed to Punxsutawny,where he became a salesman in Dr.Joseph Shields' store, and afterwards a partner in this establishment.
June 20, 1870, he was elected cashier of the Mahoning Bank of Punxsutawney,and became its principal manager and financier until October,188? - ,when he purchased all the stock of the concern,and became its sole owner,until December 18,1886,when he sold the bank to the present owners,since which time,he has not been engaged in any business.
Mr.Dinsmore was married November 15, 1865,to Miss Sarah E. Beney,daughter of James R. Beney,of Armstrong county,near Kittanning.They have had seven children of whom one boy and five girls are living;the youngest boy,Freddie Earl,the baby of the household,dying August, 1887.
Additional Source:
The Punxsutawney Spirit;Punxsutawney,
Jefferson County,Pennsylvania;dated 3 January 1900.
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The History of Jefferon County
Chapter LVIII
DINSMORE, MARION J.,son of Robert and Mary Dinsmore,was born in Petersburg,Huntingdon county,May 12,1837.
His mother was a daughter of Thomas Johnson,Centre county, to whom his father was married on the 22d day of January, 1835.
Robert Dinsmore was born in Boalsburg,Centre county,March 22,1805,his father having emigrated from Ireland about the close of the Revolution,and settled in Centre county.He afterwards served in the War of 1812,and was honorably discharged at its close.
He died in Boalsburg.
Mr.Robert Dinsmore removed to Huntingdon county in 1833. Before he left Centre county he was engaged in cattle droving,and visited the western counties of the State, purchasing stock for the eastern markets.He engaged in farming in Huntingdon,for a few years,and removed to Armstrong county,where he purchased a farm about four miles from Kittanning,where he resided until his death,which occurred December 23, 1853.His wife survived him a number of years,residing during the later years of her life with her son,Marion,at Punxsutawney,where she died,aged about sixty-five years.The family consisted of nine children, seven sons and two daughters,of whom four sons and one daughter are living.
Marion was the eldest child,and at his father's death the care of the family devolved upon him.The estate was found to be in a bad condition,encumbered with debts that threatened to involve the entire property;but though a boy in years,young Marion Dinsmore put his shoulders to the wheel,cleared off all the indebtedness,stocked the farm, put it in a good state of cultivation,making it one of the best in the neighborhood.
When the war-cloud burst upon the country,young Dinsmore promptly enlisted in Company K,Seventy-eighth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers.While on picket he was prostrated by typhoid pneumonia,which came near ending his life,and his recovery left him so debilitated,that his discharge from the service was necessary.In June, 1863, he returned home, and finally recovered.
He then determined to seek some other calling besides farming, nd entered the Iron City College,at Pittsburgh, the winter of 1863 and 1864,and graduated therefrom May, 1864.This was the turning point in Mr.Dinsmore's career,to which he attributes all his future business success.To Rev. Mr. Harvey, Professor Smith, of the Iron City college, and other kind friends,he will ever feel the warmest feelings of gratitude for the great interest they took in the broken down soldier boy.
After finishing his course at the college Mr.Dinsmore engaged in cattle droving,in order to build up his strength by out-door exercise,and afterwards was employed as a clerk in Ross & Nechling's general store in Kittanning.
In April, 1865,he removed to Punxsutawny,where he became a salesman in Dr.Joseph Shields' store, and afterwards a partner in this establishment.
June 20, 1870, he was elected cashier of the Mahoning Bank of Punxsutawney,and became its principal manager and financier until October,188? - ,when he purchased all the stock of the concern,and became its sole owner,until December 18,1886,when he sold the bank to the present owners,since which time,he has not been engaged in any business.
Mr.Dinsmore was married November 15, 1865,to Miss Sarah E. Beney,daughter of James R. Beney,of Armstrong county,near Kittanning.They have had seven children of whom one boy and five girls are living;the youngest boy,Freddie Earl,the baby of the household,dying August, 1887.
Additional Source:
The Punxsutawney Spirit;Punxsutawney,
Jefferson County,Pennsylvania;dated 3 January 1900.
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The History of Jefferon County
Chapter LVIII
DINSMORE, MARION J.,son of Robert and Mary Dinsmore,was born in Petersburg,Huntingdon county,May 12,1837.
His mother was a daughter of Thomas Johnson,Centre county, to whom his father was married on the 22d day of January, 1835.
Robert Dinsmore was born in Boalsburg,Centre county,March 22,1805,his father having emigrated from Ireland about the close of the Revolution,and settled in Centre county.He afterwards served in the War of 1812,and was honorably discharged at its close.
He died in Boalsburg.
Mr.Robert Dinsmore removed to Huntingdon county in 1833. Before he left Centre county he was engaged in cattle droving,and visited the western counties of the State, purchasing stock for the eastern markets.He engaged in farming in Huntingdon,for a few years,and removed to Armstrong county,where he purchased a farm about four miles from Kittanning,where he resided until his death,which occurred December 23, 1853.His wife survived him a number of years,residing during the later years of her life with her son,Marion,at Punxsutawney,where she died,aged about sixty-five years.The family consisted of nine children, seven sons and two daughters,of whom four sons and one daughter are living.
Marion was the eldest child,and at his father's death the care of the family devolved upon him.The estate was found to be in a bad condition,encumbered with debts that threatened to involve the entire property;but though a boy in years,young Marion Dinsmore put his shoulders to the wheel,cleared off all the indebtedness,stocked the farm, put it in a good state of cultivation,making it one of the best in the neighborhood.
When the war-cloud burst upon the country,young Dinsmore promptly enlisted in Company K,Seventy-eighth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers.While on picket he was prostrated by typhoid pneumonia,which came near ending his life,and his recovery left him so debilitated,that his discharge from the service was necessary.In June, 1863, he returned home, and finally recovered.
He then determined to seek some other calling besides farming, nd entered the Iron City College,at Pittsburgh, the winter of 1863 and 1864,and graduated therefrom May, 1864.This was the turning point in Mr.Dinsmore's career,to which he attributes all his future business success.To Rev. Mr. Harvey, Professor Smith, of the Iron City college, and other kind friends,he will ever feel the warmest feelings of gratitude for the great interest they took in the broken down soldier boy.
After finishing his course at the college Mr.Dinsmore engaged in cattle droving,in order to build up his strength by out-door exercise,and afterwards was employed as a clerk in Ross & Nechling's general store in Kittanning.
In April, 1865,he removed to Punxsutawny,where he became a salesman in Dr.Joseph Shields' store, and afterwards a partner in this establishment.
June 20, 1870, he was elected cashier of the Mahoning Bank of Punxsutawney,and became its principal manager and financier until October,188? - ,when he purchased all the stock of the concern,and became its sole owner,until December 18,1886,when he sold the bank to the present owners,since which time,he has not been engaged in any business.
Mr.Dinsmore was married November 15, 1865,to Miss Sarah E. Beney,daughter of James R. Beney,of Armstrong county,near Kittanning.They have had seven children of whom one boy and five girls are living;the youngest boy,Freddie Earl,the baby of the household,dying August, 1887.
Additional Source:
The Punxsutawney Spirit;Punxsutawney,
Jefferson County,Pennsylvania;dated 3 January 1900.
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The History of Jefferon County
Chapter LVIII
DINSMORE, MARION J.,son of Robert and Mary Dinsmore,was born in Petersburg,Huntingdon county,May 12,1837.
His mother was a daughter of Thomas Johnson,Centre county, to whom his father was married on the 22d day of January, 1835.
Robert Dinsmore was born in Boalsburg,Centre county,March 22,1805,his father having emigrated from Ireland about the close of the Revolution,and settled in Centre county.He afterwards served in the War of 1812,and was honorably discharged at its close.
He died in Boalsburg.
Mr.Robert Dinsmore removed to Huntingdon county in 1833. Before he left Centre county he was engaged in cattle droving,and visited the western counties of the State, purchasing stock for the eastern markets.He engaged in farming in Huntingdon,for a few years,and removed to Armstrong county,where he purchased a farm about four miles from Kittanning,where he resided until his death,which occurred December 23, 1853.His wife survived him a number of years,residing during the later years of her life with her son,Marion,at Punxsutawney,where she died,aged about sixty-five years.The family consisted of nine children, seven sons and two daughters,of whom four sons and one daughter are living.
Marion was the eldest child,and at his father's death the care of the family devolved upon him.The estate was found to be in a bad condition,encumbered with debts that threatened to involve the entire property;but though a boy in years,young Marion Dinsmore put his shoulders to the wheel,cleared off all the indebtedness,stocked the farm, put it in a good state of cultivation,making it one of the best in the neighborhood.
When the war-cloud burst upon the country,young Dinsmore promptly enlisted in Company K,Seventy-eighth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers.While on picket he was prostrated by typhoid pneumonia,which came near ending his life,and his recovery left him so debilitated,that his discharge from the service was necessary.In June, 1863, he returned home, and finally recovered.
He then determined to seek some other calling besides farming, nd entered the Iron City College,at Pittsburgh, the winter of 1863 and 1864,and graduated therefrom May, 1864.This was the turning point in Mr.Dinsmore's career,to which he attributes all his future business success.To Rev. Mr. Harvey, Professor Smith, of the Iron City college, and other kind friends,he will ever feel the warmest feelings of gratitude for the great interest they took in the broken down soldier boy.
After finishing his course at the college Mr.Dinsmore engaged in cattle droving,in order to build up his strength by out-door exercise,and afterwards was employed as a clerk in Ross & Nechling's general store in Kittanning.
In April, 1865,he removed to Punxsutawny,where he became a salesman in Dr.Joseph Shields' store, and afterwards a partner in this establishment.
June 20, 1870, he was elected cashier of the Mahoning Bank of Punxsutawney,and became its principal manager and financier until October,188? - ,when he purchased all the stock of the concern,and became its sole owner,until December 18,1886,when he sold the bank to the present owners,since which time,he has not been engaged in any business.
Mr.Dinsmore was married November 15, 1865,to Miss Sarah E. Beney,daughter of James R. Beney,of Armstrong county,near Kittanning.They have had seven children of whom one boy and five girls are living;the youngest boy,Freddie Earl,the baby of the household,dying August, 1887.
Additional Source:
The Punxsutawney Spirit;Punxsutawney,
Jefferson County,Pennsylvania;dated 3 January 1900.
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