Lewiston High School. Attended Bates College 1879-1880 and then entered Yale as a Sophomore; second dispute appointment Junior year, first colloquy appointment Senior year, member Class Day Committee and Delta Kappa Epsilon LL.B Columbian (now George Washington) University Law School 1885 (member Phi Delta Phi); admitted to Maine State Bar in October, 1885, but never practiced law; on editorial staff of Lewiston Journal 1885-86, and made a world tour for the paper in 1886; one of the political and legislative editors of Boston Advertiser and Boston Record 1886-87; part owner and editor of Leavenworth (Kans.) Times 1887editor and publisher of Kalamazoo (Mich ) Daily Telegraph 1888-1909 and of Kalamazoo Evening Press 1909-1911; then forced the consolidation of the Telegraph and the Press to form the Telegraph-Press, of which editor and publisher until 1912; created the Progressive Herald of Kalamazoo 1912, and acted as editor and publisher until 1917; was also president and general manager of Sagmaw (Mich ) News, which he bought with four others in 1890; while in Kalamazoo wrote political prospectuses, published articles in the Indianapolis Star defending the gold standard, and published the pamphlet " Quoin's Financial School"; editor of American Economist, the official publication of the American Protective League in New York City 1918-19; assistant editor of New Tork Herald 1919-1920, then became editorial writer for Republican National Committee and was soon afterwards transferred to Washington, where he had since lived; in 1923 also conducted, in conjunction with George B. Lockwood (secretary of National Republican Committee) the Dingley Syndicate, based upon political developments from the Republican standpoint; clerk of Ways and Means Committee of National House of Representatives 1897-98; member of Michigan House of Representatives 1898-1902 (chairman of Ways and Means Committee and floor leader 1900-01); connected with Committee on Ways and Means of United States House of Representatives as tariff expert 1921-24 and since then had served as majority expert on tariff, finance, and economics with Senate Finance Committee; president of Michigan League of Republican Clubs 1897-98, in 1900 delegate to Republican National Convention, serving on Committee on Resolutions; in 1908 unsuccessful candidate for Congress from 3d Michigan District; addressed Academy of Political Science on "A Tariff for a Creditor Nation" in New York 1921 and American Institute of Political Science at St. Louis on "The International Labor League" 1922; debated tariff questions with United States Representative Collier of Mississippi in Pennsylvania House of Representatives, upon invitation of Pennsylvania Club* of Women Voters 1922; on speakers' bureau of Republican National Committee (of which a member since 1916) for a number of years; author. The Life and Times of Nelson Dinghy, Jr. (1902) and Unto the Hills (1922); contributed articles on political and economic subjects to Chicago News, Indianapolis News, Washington Post, Washington Star, Harrisburg Evening News, Jamestown Evening Journal, New York Evening Mail, Review of Reviews, World's Work, National Republican (special writer 1921-24), The Protectionist, Southern Tariff Advocate, and Tariff Review; vice-president of Yale Alumni Association of Grand Rapids (now Western Michigan Yale Alumni Association) 1914; governor of Distnct of Columbia Society of the Order of Patriots and Founders of America since 1928; member Pine Street Congregational Church, Lewiston.
Married December 20, 1888, in Dorchester, Mass., Miriam Gardner, daughter of Henry Crane and Francena (Reed) Robinson. Children: Irene (died in 1902); Miriam (died in 1891), Nelson; Madalen, the wife of William D. Leetch, Cornell ex-i$; and Edward Nelson, Jr. (B.S. Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1923).
Buried in the Dingley family plot at Oak Hill Cemetery, Auburn.
Survived by wife, one daughter, two sons, three grandchildren, and a sister, Mrs. James C. Hooe, of New Haven.
Married December 20, 1888, in Dorchester, Mass., Miriam Gardner, daughter of Henry Crane and Francena (Reed) Robinson. Children: Irene (died in 1902); Miriam (died in 1891), Nelson; Madalen, the wife of William D. Leetch, Cornell ex-i$; and Edward Nelson, Jr. (B.S. Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1923).
Buried in the Dingley family plot at Oak Hill Cemetery, Auburn.
Survived by wife, one daughter, two sons, three grandchildren, and a sister, Mrs. James C. Hooe, of New Haven.
Lewiston High School. Attended Bates College 1879-1880 and then entered Yale as a Sophomore; second dispute appointment Junior year, first colloquy appointment Senior year, member Class Day Committee and Delta Kappa Epsilon LL.B Columbian (now George Washington) University Law School 1885 (member Phi Delta Phi); admitted to Maine State Bar in October, 1885, but never practiced law; on editorial staff of Lewiston Journal 1885-86, and made a world tour for the paper in 1886; one of the political and legislative editors of Boston Advertiser and Boston Record 1886-87; part owner and editor of Leavenworth (Kans.) Times 1887editor and publisher of Kalamazoo (Mich ) Daily Telegraph 1888-1909 and of Kalamazoo Evening Press 1909-1911; then forced the consolidation of the Telegraph and the Press to form the Telegraph-Press, of which editor and publisher until 1912; created the Progressive Herald of Kalamazoo 1912, and acted as editor and publisher until 1917; was also president and general manager of Sagmaw (Mich ) News, which he bought with four others in 1890; while in Kalamazoo wrote political prospectuses, published articles in the Indianapolis Star defending the gold standard, and published the pamphlet " Quoin's Financial School"; editor of American Economist, the official publication of the American Protective League in New York City 1918-19; assistant editor of New Tork Herald 1919-1920, then became editorial writer for Republican National Committee and was soon afterwards transferred to Washington, where he had since lived; in 1923 also conducted, in conjunction with George B. Lockwood (secretary of National Republican Committee) the Dingley Syndicate, based upon political developments from the Republican standpoint; clerk of Ways and Means Committee of National House of Representatives 1897-98; member of Michigan House of Representatives 1898-1902 (chairman of Ways and Means Committee and floor leader 1900-01); connected with Committee on Ways and Means of United States House of Representatives as tariff expert 1921-24 and since then had served as majority expert on tariff, finance, and economics with Senate Finance Committee; president of Michigan League of Republican Clubs 1897-98, in 1900 delegate to Republican National Convention, serving on Committee on Resolutions; in 1908 unsuccessful candidate for Congress from 3d Michigan District; addressed Academy of Political Science on "A Tariff for a Creditor Nation" in New York 1921 and American Institute of Political Science at St. Louis on "The International Labor League" 1922; debated tariff questions with United States Representative Collier of Mississippi in Pennsylvania House of Representatives, upon invitation of Pennsylvania Club* of Women Voters 1922; on speakers' bureau of Republican National Committee (of which a member since 1916) for a number of years; author. The Life and Times of Nelson Dinghy, Jr. (1902) and Unto the Hills (1922); contributed articles on political and economic subjects to Chicago News, Indianapolis News, Washington Post, Washington Star, Harrisburg Evening News, Jamestown Evening Journal, New York Evening Mail, Review of Reviews, World's Work, National Republican (special writer 1921-24), The Protectionist, Southern Tariff Advocate, and Tariff Review; vice-president of Yale Alumni Association of Grand Rapids (now Western Michigan Yale Alumni Association) 1914; governor of Distnct of Columbia Society of the Order of Patriots and Founders of America since 1928; member Pine Street Congregational Church, Lewiston.
Married December 20, 1888, in Dorchester, Mass., Miriam Gardner, daughter of Henry Crane and Francena (Reed) Robinson. Children: Irene (died in 1902); Miriam (died in 1891), Nelson; Madalen, the wife of William D. Leetch, Cornell ex-i$; and Edward Nelson, Jr. (B.S. Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1923).
Buried in the Dingley family plot at Oak Hill Cemetery, Auburn.
Survived by wife, one daughter, two sons, three grandchildren, and a sister, Mrs. James C. Hooe, of New Haven.
Married December 20, 1888, in Dorchester, Mass., Miriam Gardner, daughter of Henry Crane and Francena (Reed) Robinson. Children: Irene (died in 1902); Miriam (died in 1891), Nelson; Madalen, the wife of William D. Leetch, Cornell ex-i$; and Edward Nelson, Jr. (B.S. Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1923).
Buried in the Dingley family plot at Oak Hill Cemetery, Auburn.
Survived by wife, one daughter, two sons, three grandchildren, and a sister, Mrs. James C. Hooe, of New Haven.
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