"The Past and Present of Vermilion County, Illinois," S. J. Clarke Publishing Co., Chicago, 1903, pp.16-20:
"JOHN W. DALE - Few men have contributed in larger measure to the material upbuilding and substantial improvement of Danville and this portion of Illinois than has John W. Dale, who through his real estate interests has not only promoted his own individual prosperity but has also contributed to the general good, the progress and prosperity of the community in whose welfare he has manifested a loyal and public-spirited interest and his fellowtownsmen respect him as a man worthy of the confidence and good will of those with whom he has been associated. Since 1860 he has resided in Vermilion county and is therefore among the early settlers.
Mr. Dale was born in Clark county, Ohio, January 15, 1842, and is a son of John J. Dale, whose birth occurred in Maryland in 1809. The paternal grandfather was Jacob Dale and the family is of Scotch lineage the first representative of the name in America having become pioneer settlers of Maryland. Jacob Dale died when his son was a small child and the latter afterward went to Philadelphia, where he learned the merchant tailoring business, following that pursuit for some years. He was wedded in South Charleston, Clark county, Ohio, to Elizabeth Davison, who was born in that county and was a daughter of Isaac Davison, one of the early settlers who removed from Virginia to Ohio. After arriving at years of maturity John J. Dale took up is abode at South Charleston and began business there as a merchant tailor, successfully conducing his establsihment for a number of years. In 1856, however, he severed all business relations connecting him with Ohio and removed to Warren county, Indiana. Upon a farm there he made his home for a few years and in the spring of 1860 came to Vermilion county, Illinois, purchasing land in Ross township. the tract of which he became ownder was broad prairie but with characteristic energy he began its cultivation and improvement and soon transformed it into a good farm which he operated for a number of years. He afterward removed to Rossville where he lived in retirement from labor until his death, which occurred in 1877. He was elected and served in various positions of honor and trust and was regarded as one of the leading and influential men of his neighborhood. His wife survived him for a number of years and passed away in 1899 at the age of eighty-four years. In their family were four sons and five daughters, all of whom reached years of maturity with the exception of one daughter, and three sons and three daughters are yet living: Sarah, the eldest, is the wife of Isaac Neer, of Clark county, Ohio; Jacob is living in South Dakota; Martha became the wife of William M. Ross and lived in Vermilion county for sometime but afterward removed to Indiana where Mrs. Ross died; Daniel was a member of Company B, Twenty-fifth Illinois Volunteer Infantry, during the Civil War and was killed in the battle of Stone river; John W. is the next younger; Isaac is a minister and presiding elder in the Methodist Episcopal church and is now located at South bend, Indiana; Margaret A. is the wife of Abraham Mann, of Ross township; Mary died at the age of fourteen years; Emma resides with her sister, Mrs. Mann.
John W. Dale of this review spent the first fourteen years of his life in the county of his nativity and then came with his parents to Vermilion county, Illinois, where he assisted in the work of the home farm and in cultivating its fields until the spring of 1861. He acquired a good education in the public schools and after the war he was a student in an academy at Thorntown, Indiana, under the direction of the famous historian, Ridpath.
On the 1st of June, 1861, Mr. Dale joined Company B, Twenty-fifth Illinois Infantry and was assigned to the army under the command of General Curtis. The first engagement in which he participated was a Pea Ridge, Arkansas. Later he was sent to Corinth, Mississippi, and soon afterward his regiment joined the Army of the Cumberland and participated in the battles of Perrysville, Stoen River and Chickamauga. In the latter engagement he was wounded, lsoing his left arm. A gun-shot pierced that member and so injured it that it was necessary to amputate it in a hospital at Nashville, Tennessee. When he had sufficiently recovered Mr. Dale returned home and later had to have a second operation on his arm, another portion of it being amputated. He was mustered out and received an honorable discharge in September, 1864. Before being mustered out he was in several hospitals and he experienced all the hardships and rigors of war.
Returning home Mr. Dale determined to further continue his education and spent about two full years in school. He was afterward elected assessor and collector of Ross township, serving for two or more terms. In the fall of 1869 he was elected county clerk and by re-election served for three consecutive terms in that important office, discharging his duties with ability and fidelity. He retired from the position as he had entered it --- with the confidence and good will of the public. He has since served as assistant supervisor and commissioner of highways, likewise as a member of the board of education. In politics he has ever been a stalwart Republican and he has frequently been a delegate to state conventions. In whatever position he has been found he ahs ever been a faithful and efficient officer. His first ballot was cast for Abraham Lincoln in 1864 and he has never yet wavered in his allegiance to the party. On the expiration of his service as county clerk he engaged for a time in the manufacture of buggies and has for some years operated in estate, largely handling lands in Vermilion county, Illinois. In connection with Mr. Cunningham he purchased nine hundred acres of land adjoining Danville, laying out an addition known as Vermilion Heights, which is know a very attractive suburb of the city and includes many manufacturing interests there.
On the 26th of June, 1873, in this city, our subject was united in marriage to Miss Harriet I. Hicks, a native of Perrysville, Indiana, who was reared and educated there, her father, George I. Hicks, being one of the leading business men of that place, and one of the pioneer pork packers of the Wabash Valley. Mr. and Mrs. Dale are the parents of four children: Elizabeth, who is at home; Katie, who died in childhood; Georgia and Nellie, who are still under the parental roof. The parents hodl membership in the Methodist Episcopal church at Danville and fraternally he is identified with Danville Lodge, I. O. O. F., in which he has filled all the offices and is a past grand. He also belongs to the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and to the Grand Army of the Republic, this last membership enabling him to maintain pleasant relations with his old army comrades. During forty-two years Vermilion county has been his home and therefore he has been a witness of its growth and improvement. He belongs to that class of progressive American citizens who while promoting individual success also find time and opportunity to advance the general welfare by hearty and active co-operation in all measures for the general good. He is to-day as true to his duties of citizenship as when he followed th starry banner upon the southern battle-fields."
"JOHN W. DALE - Few men have contributed in larger measure to the material upbuilding and substantial improvement of Danville and this portion of Illinois than has John W. Dale, who through his real estate interests has not only promoted his own individual prosperity but has also contributed to the general good, the progress and prosperity of the community in whose welfare he has manifested a loyal and public-spirited interest and his fellowtownsmen respect him as a man worthy of the confidence and good will of those with whom he has been associated. Since 1860 he has resided in Vermilion county and is therefore among the early settlers.
Mr. Dale was born in Clark county, Ohio, January 15, 1842, and is a son of John J. Dale, whose birth occurred in Maryland in 1809. The paternal grandfather was Jacob Dale and the family is of Scotch lineage the first representative of the name in America having become pioneer settlers of Maryland. Jacob Dale died when his son was a small child and the latter afterward went to Philadelphia, where he learned the merchant tailoring business, following that pursuit for some years. He was wedded in South Charleston, Clark county, Ohio, to Elizabeth Davison, who was born in that county and was a daughter of Isaac Davison, one of the early settlers who removed from Virginia to Ohio. After arriving at years of maturity John J. Dale took up is abode at South Charleston and began business there as a merchant tailor, successfully conducing his establsihment for a number of years. In 1856, however, he severed all business relations connecting him with Ohio and removed to Warren county, Indiana. Upon a farm there he made his home for a few years and in the spring of 1860 came to Vermilion county, Illinois, purchasing land in Ross township. the tract of which he became ownder was broad prairie but with characteristic energy he began its cultivation and improvement and soon transformed it into a good farm which he operated for a number of years. He afterward removed to Rossville where he lived in retirement from labor until his death, which occurred in 1877. He was elected and served in various positions of honor and trust and was regarded as one of the leading and influential men of his neighborhood. His wife survived him for a number of years and passed away in 1899 at the age of eighty-four years. In their family were four sons and five daughters, all of whom reached years of maturity with the exception of one daughter, and three sons and three daughters are yet living: Sarah, the eldest, is the wife of Isaac Neer, of Clark county, Ohio; Jacob is living in South Dakota; Martha became the wife of William M. Ross and lived in Vermilion county for sometime but afterward removed to Indiana where Mrs. Ross died; Daniel was a member of Company B, Twenty-fifth Illinois Volunteer Infantry, during the Civil War and was killed in the battle of Stone river; John W. is the next younger; Isaac is a minister and presiding elder in the Methodist Episcopal church and is now located at South bend, Indiana; Margaret A. is the wife of Abraham Mann, of Ross township; Mary died at the age of fourteen years; Emma resides with her sister, Mrs. Mann.
John W. Dale of this review spent the first fourteen years of his life in the county of his nativity and then came with his parents to Vermilion county, Illinois, where he assisted in the work of the home farm and in cultivating its fields until the spring of 1861. He acquired a good education in the public schools and after the war he was a student in an academy at Thorntown, Indiana, under the direction of the famous historian, Ridpath.
On the 1st of June, 1861, Mr. Dale joined Company B, Twenty-fifth Illinois Infantry and was assigned to the army under the command of General Curtis. The first engagement in which he participated was a Pea Ridge, Arkansas. Later he was sent to Corinth, Mississippi, and soon afterward his regiment joined the Army of the Cumberland and participated in the battles of Perrysville, Stoen River and Chickamauga. In the latter engagement he was wounded, lsoing his left arm. A gun-shot pierced that member and so injured it that it was necessary to amputate it in a hospital at Nashville, Tennessee. When he had sufficiently recovered Mr. Dale returned home and later had to have a second operation on his arm, another portion of it being amputated. He was mustered out and received an honorable discharge in September, 1864. Before being mustered out he was in several hospitals and he experienced all the hardships and rigors of war.
Returning home Mr. Dale determined to further continue his education and spent about two full years in school. He was afterward elected assessor and collector of Ross township, serving for two or more terms. In the fall of 1869 he was elected county clerk and by re-election served for three consecutive terms in that important office, discharging his duties with ability and fidelity. He retired from the position as he had entered it --- with the confidence and good will of the public. He has since served as assistant supervisor and commissioner of highways, likewise as a member of the board of education. In politics he has ever been a stalwart Republican and he has frequently been a delegate to state conventions. In whatever position he has been found he ahs ever been a faithful and efficient officer. His first ballot was cast for Abraham Lincoln in 1864 and he has never yet wavered in his allegiance to the party. On the expiration of his service as county clerk he engaged for a time in the manufacture of buggies and has for some years operated in estate, largely handling lands in Vermilion county, Illinois. In connection with Mr. Cunningham he purchased nine hundred acres of land adjoining Danville, laying out an addition known as Vermilion Heights, which is know a very attractive suburb of the city and includes many manufacturing interests there.
On the 26th of June, 1873, in this city, our subject was united in marriage to Miss Harriet I. Hicks, a native of Perrysville, Indiana, who was reared and educated there, her father, George I. Hicks, being one of the leading business men of that place, and one of the pioneer pork packers of the Wabash Valley. Mr. and Mrs. Dale are the parents of four children: Elizabeth, who is at home; Katie, who died in childhood; Georgia and Nellie, who are still under the parental roof. The parents hodl membership in the Methodist Episcopal church at Danville and fraternally he is identified with Danville Lodge, I. O. O. F., in which he has filled all the offices and is a past grand. He also belongs to the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and to the Grand Army of the Republic, this last membership enabling him to maintain pleasant relations with his old army comrades. During forty-two years Vermilion county has been his home and therefore he has been a witness of its growth and improvement. He belongs to that class of progressive American citizens who while promoting individual success also find time and opportunity to advance the general welfare by hearty and active co-operation in all measures for the general good. He is to-day as true to his duties of citizenship as when he followed th starry banner upon the southern battle-fields."
"The Past and Present of Vermilion County, Illinois," S. J. Clarke Publishing Co., Chicago, 1903, pp.16-20:
"JOHN W. DALE - Few men have contributed in larger measure to the material upbuilding and substantial improvement of Danville and this portion of Illinois than has John W. Dale, who through his real estate interests has not only promoted his own individual prosperity but has also contributed to the general good, the progress and prosperity of the community in whose welfare he has manifested a loyal and public-spirited interest and his fellowtownsmen respect him as a man worthy of the confidence and good will of those with whom he has been associated. Since 1860 he has resided in Vermilion county and is therefore among the early settlers.
Mr. Dale was born in Clark county, Ohio, January 15, 1842, and is a son of John J. Dale, whose birth occurred in Maryland in 1809. The paternal grandfather was Jacob Dale and the family is of Scotch lineage the first representative of the name in America having become pioneer settlers of Maryland. Jacob Dale died when his son was a small child and the latter afterward went to Philadelphia, where he learned the merchant tailoring business, following that pursuit for some years. He was wedded in South Charleston, Clark county, Ohio, to Elizabeth Davison, who was born in that county and was a daughter of Isaac Davison, one of the early settlers who removed from Virginia to Ohio. After arriving at years of maturity John J. Dale took up is abode at South Charleston and began business there as a merchant tailor, successfully conducing his establsihment for a number of years. In 1856, however, he severed all business relations connecting him with Ohio and removed to Warren county, Indiana. Upon a farm there he made his home for a few years and in the spring of 1860 came to Vermilion county, Illinois, purchasing land in Ross township. the tract of which he became ownder was broad prairie but with characteristic energy he began its cultivation and improvement and soon transformed it into a good farm which he operated for a number of years. He afterward removed to Rossville where he lived in retirement from labor until his death, which occurred in 1877. He was elected and served in various positions of honor and trust and was regarded as one of the leading and influential men of his neighborhood. His wife survived him for a number of years and passed away in 1899 at the age of eighty-four years. In their family were four sons and five daughters, all of whom reached years of maturity with the exception of one daughter, and three sons and three daughters are yet living: Sarah, the eldest, is the wife of Isaac Neer, of Clark county, Ohio; Jacob is living in South Dakota; Martha became the wife of William M. Ross and lived in Vermilion county for sometime but afterward removed to Indiana where Mrs. Ross died; Daniel was a member of Company B, Twenty-fifth Illinois Volunteer Infantry, during the Civil War and was killed in the battle of Stone river; John W. is the next younger; Isaac is a minister and presiding elder in the Methodist Episcopal church and is now located at South bend, Indiana; Margaret A. is the wife of Abraham Mann, of Ross township; Mary died at the age of fourteen years; Emma resides with her sister, Mrs. Mann.
John W. Dale of this review spent the first fourteen years of his life in the county of his nativity and then came with his parents to Vermilion county, Illinois, where he assisted in the work of the home farm and in cultivating its fields until the spring of 1861. He acquired a good education in the public schools and after the war he was a student in an academy at Thorntown, Indiana, under the direction of the famous historian, Ridpath.
On the 1st of June, 1861, Mr. Dale joined Company B, Twenty-fifth Illinois Infantry and was assigned to the army under the command of General Curtis. The first engagement in which he participated was a Pea Ridge, Arkansas. Later he was sent to Corinth, Mississippi, and soon afterward his regiment joined the Army of the Cumberland and participated in the battles of Perrysville, Stoen River and Chickamauga. In the latter engagement he was wounded, lsoing his left arm. A gun-shot pierced that member and so injured it that it was necessary to amputate it in a hospital at Nashville, Tennessee. When he had sufficiently recovered Mr. Dale returned home and later had to have a second operation on his arm, another portion of it being amputated. He was mustered out and received an honorable discharge in September, 1864. Before being mustered out he was in several hospitals and he experienced all the hardships and rigors of war.
Returning home Mr. Dale determined to further continue his education and spent about two full years in school. He was afterward elected assessor and collector of Ross township, serving for two or more terms. In the fall of 1869 he was elected county clerk and by re-election served for three consecutive terms in that important office, discharging his duties with ability and fidelity. He retired from the position as he had entered it --- with the confidence and good will of the public. He has since served as assistant supervisor and commissioner of highways, likewise as a member of the board of education. In politics he has ever been a stalwart Republican and he has frequently been a delegate to state conventions. In whatever position he has been found he ahs ever been a faithful and efficient officer. His first ballot was cast for Abraham Lincoln in 1864 and he has never yet wavered in his allegiance to the party. On the expiration of his service as county clerk he engaged for a time in the manufacture of buggies and has for some years operated in estate, largely handling lands in Vermilion county, Illinois. In connection with Mr. Cunningham he purchased nine hundred acres of land adjoining Danville, laying out an addition known as Vermilion Heights, which is know a very attractive suburb of the city and includes many manufacturing interests there.
On the 26th of June, 1873, in this city, our subject was united in marriage to Miss Harriet I. Hicks, a native of Perrysville, Indiana, who was reared and educated there, her father, George I. Hicks, being one of the leading business men of that place, and one of the pioneer pork packers of the Wabash Valley. Mr. and Mrs. Dale are the parents of four children: Elizabeth, who is at home; Katie, who died in childhood; Georgia and Nellie, who are still under the parental roof. The parents hodl membership in the Methodist Episcopal church at Danville and fraternally he is identified with Danville Lodge, I. O. O. F., in which he has filled all the offices and is a past grand. He also belongs to the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and to the Grand Army of the Republic, this last membership enabling him to maintain pleasant relations with his old army comrades. During forty-two years Vermilion county has been his home and therefore he has been a witness of its growth and improvement. He belongs to that class of progressive American citizens who while promoting individual success also find time and opportunity to advance the general welfare by hearty and active co-operation in all measures for the general good. He is to-day as true to his duties of citizenship as when he followed th starry banner upon the southern battle-fields."
"JOHN W. DALE - Few men have contributed in larger measure to the material upbuilding and substantial improvement of Danville and this portion of Illinois than has John W. Dale, who through his real estate interests has not only promoted his own individual prosperity but has also contributed to the general good, the progress and prosperity of the community in whose welfare he has manifested a loyal and public-spirited interest and his fellowtownsmen respect him as a man worthy of the confidence and good will of those with whom he has been associated. Since 1860 he has resided in Vermilion county and is therefore among the early settlers.
Mr. Dale was born in Clark county, Ohio, January 15, 1842, and is a son of John J. Dale, whose birth occurred in Maryland in 1809. The paternal grandfather was Jacob Dale and the family is of Scotch lineage the first representative of the name in America having become pioneer settlers of Maryland. Jacob Dale died when his son was a small child and the latter afterward went to Philadelphia, where he learned the merchant tailoring business, following that pursuit for some years. He was wedded in South Charleston, Clark county, Ohio, to Elizabeth Davison, who was born in that county and was a daughter of Isaac Davison, one of the early settlers who removed from Virginia to Ohio. After arriving at years of maturity John J. Dale took up is abode at South Charleston and began business there as a merchant tailor, successfully conducing his establsihment for a number of years. In 1856, however, he severed all business relations connecting him with Ohio and removed to Warren county, Indiana. Upon a farm there he made his home for a few years and in the spring of 1860 came to Vermilion county, Illinois, purchasing land in Ross township. the tract of which he became ownder was broad prairie but with characteristic energy he began its cultivation and improvement and soon transformed it into a good farm which he operated for a number of years. He afterward removed to Rossville where he lived in retirement from labor until his death, which occurred in 1877. He was elected and served in various positions of honor and trust and was regarded as one of the leading and influential men of his neighborhood. His wife survived him for a number of years and passed away in 1899 at the age of eighty-four years. In their family were four sons and five daughters, all of whom reached years of maturity with the exception of one daughter, and three sons and three daughters are yet living: Sarah, the eldest, is the wife of Isaac Neer, of Clark county, Ohio; Jacob is living in South Dakota; Martha became the wife of William M. Ross and lived in Vermilion county for sometime but afterward removed to Indiana where Mrs. Ross died; Daniel was a member of Company B, Twenty-fifth Illinois Volunteer Infantry, during the Civil War and was killed in the battle of Stone river; John W. is the next younger; Isaac is a minister and presiding elder in the Methodist Episcopal church and is now located at South bend, Indiana; Margaret A. is the wife of Abraham Mann, of Ross township; Mary died at the age of fourteen years; Emma resides with her sister, Mrs. Mann.
John W. Dale of this review spent the first fourteen years of his life in the county of his nativity and then came with his parents to Vermilion county, Illinois, where he assisted in the work of the home farm and in cultivating its fields until the spring of 1861. He acquired a good education in the public schools and after the war he was a student in an academy at Thorntown, Indiana, under the direction of the famous historian, Ridpath.
On the 1st of June, 1861, Mr. Dale joined Company B, Twenty-fifth Illinois Infantry and was assigned to the army under the command of General Curtis. The first engagement in which he participated was a Pea Ridge, Arkansas. Later he was sent to Corinth, Mississippi, and soon afterward his regiment joined the Army of the Cumberland and participated in the battles of Perrysville, Stoen River and Chickamauga. In the latter engagement he was wounded, lsoing his left arm. A gun-shot pierced that member and so injured it that it was necessary to amputate it in a hospital at Nashville, Tennessee. When he had sufficiently recovered Mr. Dale returned home and later had to have a second operation on his arm, another portion of it being amputated. He was mustered out and received an honorable discharge in September, 1864. Before being mustered out he was in several hospitals and he experienced all the hardships and rigors of war.
Returning home Mr. Dale determined to further continue his education and spent about two full years in school. He was afterward elected assessor and collector of Ross township, serving for two or more terms. In the fall of 1869 he was elected county clerk and by re-election served for three consecutive terms in that important office, discharging his duties with ability and fidelity. He retired from the position as he had entered it --- with the confidence and good will of the public. He has since served as assistant supervisor and commissioner of highways, likewise as a member of the board of education. In politics he has ever been a stalwart Republican and he has frequently been a delegate to state conventions. In whatever position he has been found he ahs ever been a faithful and efficient officer. His first ballot was cast for Abraham Lincoln in 1864 and he has never yet wavered in his allegiance to the party. On the expiration of his service as county clerk he engaged for a time in the manufacture of buggies and has for some years operated in estate, largely handling lands in Vermilion county, Illinois. In connection with Mr. Cunningham he purchased nine hundred acres of land adjoining Danville, laying out an addition known as Vermilion Heights, which is know a very attractive suburb of the city and includes many manufacturing interests there.
On the 26th of June, 1873, in this city, our subject was united in marriage to Miss Harriet I. Hicks, a native of Perrysville, Indiana, who was reared and educated there, her father, George I. Hicks, being one of the leading business men of that place, and one of the pioneer pork packers of the Wabash Valley. Mr. and Mrs. Dale are the parents of four children: Elizabeth, who is at home; Katie, who died in childhood; Georgia and Nellie, who are still under the parental roof. The parents hodl membership in the Methodist Episcopal church at Danville and fraternally he is identified with Danville Lodge, I. O. O. F., in which he has filled all the offices and is a past grand. He also belongs to the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and to the Grand Army of the Republic, this last membership enabling him to maintain pleasant relations with his old army comrades. During forty-two years Vermilion county has been his home and therefore he has been a witness of its growth and improvement. He belongs to that class of progressive American citizens who while promoting individual success also find time and opportunity to advance the general welfare by hearty and active co-operation in all measures for the general good. He is to-day as true to his duties of citizenship as when he followed th starry banner upon the southern battle-fields."
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