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Centennial History of Summit County, Ohio
and Representative Citizens
Publ. by Biographical Publishing Co.
Chicago, Ill -
1908

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  RICHARD J. DALLINGA, whose highly cultivated truck farm of twenty-five acres is situated in Copley Township, Summit County, Ohio, was born June 22, 1864, in Holland, and is a son of Jacob and Emma (Van Cingel) Dallinga.
    
JACOB DALLINGA, who was a farmer and brewer of the Netherlands, was married to Emma Van Cingel, also a native of that country, and to them were born seven children, namely: Richard Jacob: Herman, who is bookkeeper for George Crisp & Son, of Akron; Cecelia, who is deceased; Julia the wife of Charles DeBruyn, proprietor of the Valley City Machine Works of Grand Rapids, Michigan; Remina, who married Dr. W. L. Holbrook of Wellington, Ohio; Dena, who married Elger Barnard, of Medina County, Ohio; and Grace.  In 1897 Jacob Dallinga died, and his widow married for her second husband, J. G. C. Van der Wonde, with whom she came to America in 1883.  She died in Copley Township, Feb. 22, 1899, aged fifty-six years. There were no children born of her second marriage.
     Richard J. Dallinga was reared on his father's farm, and attended the common school until eleven years old, at which time he entered the academy.  After graduation therefrom he took a general course at Ryks Hoogers Burger school, which he left just before graduation at the age of nineteen years, and where he was instructed in French, English, German and Dutch.  In 1883 he came with the family to America, first settling at Grand Rapids, Michigan, where all the boys of the family found employment 'in the furniture factories.  Being dissatisfied with this kind of work, Mr. Dallinga went to Kalamazoo, Michigan, and engaged in celery growing on a small farm purchased by his stepfather, and he also worked on a nursery farm for L. G. Bragg and Company, attending to the duties of the shipping department.  While there he was engaged by W. R. Wean and O. P. Chapman, of Wean, Horr and Company, of Medina County, Ohio, now the Horr-Warner Company, to take charge of the celery department of their l,500-acre truck farm.  One year later he became general superintendent, a position which he held for nine years, when he engaged with the Copley Garden Company, located on the old Sackett estate in Copley Township.  He continued with this institution for three years, at which time the business was dissolved and he purchased his present tract of twenty-five acres.  At this time the property was considered worthless, but Mr. Dallinga soon cleared it and brought it under cultivation, erected new buildings, and made it one of the best truck farms in this section.
     On Dec. 23, 1890, Mr. Dallinga was married to Lucy E. Rockenfelder, who was born in Ashland County, Ohio, and who is a daughter of William and Catherina (Yost) Rockenfelder.  Five children have been born to this union : Charles, a student at Buchtel College; Rosa, who attends Copley High School; Clarence, who died young; Mabel, and Emma Lucille.
     Mr. Dallinga is a Republican in politics and has always taken a great interest in educational matters, having served as president of the Board of Education of Copley Township for three years.  Fraternally he is connected with the Masonic order, and he is a prominent member of the local Grange.

Source: Centennial History of Summit County, Ohio and Representative Citizens - Publ. by Biographical Publishing Co. - Chicago, Ill. - 1908 - Page 746
  JOSEPH DANGEL

Source: Centennial History of Summit County, Ohio and Representative Citizens - Publ. by Biographical Publishing Co. - Chicago, Ill. - 1908 - Page 609

  HARRY S. DAVIDSON, M. D.

Source: Centennial History of Summit County, Ohio and Representative Citizens - Publ. by Biographical Publishing Co. - Chicago, Ill. - 1908 - Page 443

  J. M. DAVIDSON

Source: Centennial History of Summit County, Ohio and Representative Citizens - Publ. by Biographical Publishing Co. - Chicago, Ill. - 1908 - Page 577

  HON. CHARLES A. DAVIS, mayor of Cuyahoga Falls, and proprietor of the largest grocery house in the city, was born at Canastota, Madison County, New York, Jan. 19, 1856, son of George M. and Sarah J. (Hale) Davis.
     His paternal grandfather was Samuel Davis, a native of New Jersey, but of Welsh parentage, who came to this county at an early day.  This Samuel Davis died in Lennox Township, Madison County, in 1850, at the advanced age of eighty-two years, having moved from New Jersey to Lewis County, New York, in 1828.  He was a farmer by occupation.
     Samuel's son, Aaron, grandfather of Mayor Davis, was born in New Jersey, sixteen miles from Brunswick, about 1808.  Previous to his marriage he moved to Lewis County, New York.  At the age of eighteen he learned the blacksmith's trade, which he followed until the death of his wife, when he went West, to Des Arc, Prairie County, Arkansas, where he became the owner of 1,200 acres of land.  In 1850 he wrote saying that he would return home in the spring, if nothing happened to prevent him, but that was the last news received from him.  He married, in Auburn, New York, Aug. 25, 1825, Rachel Merritt.  They had four children, of whom three grew to maturity, namely:  Mary who is now deceased; Samuel, and
George M.
    
GEORGE M. DAVIS was born in Lewis County, New York, and came to Cuyahoga Falls in the spring of 1866, being for some years after coming here in the employ of L. W. Loomis.  In January, 1875, he returned to New York with his family, afterwards returning to the Falls, where he and his wife now live retired.  They have two children, Charles A., whose name begins this sketch, and Frank J., who is a resident of Larned, Kansas.  Politically George M. Davis is a Democrat.  His wife is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church.
     Charles A. Davis completed his literary education in the High School at Cuyahoga Falls, and then worked for several years on a farm, which he left to enter the printing office of the Cuyahoga Falls Reporter.  In 1875, when his parents returned to New York, he accompanied them and remained there for three years, later returning to Cuyahoga Falls.  Subsequently he worked as a printer on the Akron Daily Tribune for a year, or until its suspension.  He continued in journalism a while longer, accepting a position with the Oil City Derrick, at Oil City.  In the latter part of 1879 he returned once more to Cuyahoga Falls and entered the Jones Bros.' grocery store as a clerk.  Two years later, on the firm's going out of business, Mr. Davis opened a store of his own and conducted it for eighteen months, after which he resumed clerking.  He had long been an active worker in the ranks of the Democratic party, and when President Cleveland entered upon his second administration, Mr. Davis was appointed assistant postmaster.  At the close of his term in that office he purchased the Cuyahoga Falls Reporter, which journal he conducted with marked ability for six years. 
     In November, 1903, Mr. Davis sold the newspaper and bought his present grocery store, from H. E. Wells  He now conducts the largest grocery trade in the town, besides which he has other important business interests, being a director in the Cuyahoga Falls Savings Bank, also in the Falls Savings and Loan Association and in the Elgin Butter and Ice Cream Company, and a member of the Finance Committee of the Cuyahoga Savings Society.  He has been a strong political factor for many years, and was elected Mayor of Cuyahoga Falls on the Democratic ticket, assuming the duties of the office Jan. 1, 1906.
     Mr. Davis was married to June E. Laughead, a daughter of Carlisle B. Laughead of Middleport, Ohio.  Mrs. Davis died in 1903, leaving two children, Leslie L. and Frank A.  Mr. Davis is a member of Star Lodge, No. 187, F. and A. M.  A patriotic and enterprising citizen, he keeps the public welfare ever in view, and his official acts have been fraught with beneficial results to the community.
Source: Centennial History of Summit County, Ohio and Representative Citizens - Publ. by Biographical Publishing Co. - Chicago, Ill. - 1908 - Page 558
  GEORGE S. DAVIS

Source: Centennial History of Summit County, Ohio and Representative Citizens - Publ. by Biographical Publishing Co. - Chicago, Ill. - 1908 - Page 578

  E. S. DAY

Source: Centennial History of Summit County, Ohio and Representative Citizens - Publ. by Biographical Publishing Co. - Chicago, Ill. - 1908 - Page 818

  HORACE L. DEACON

Source: Centennial History of Summit County, Ohio and Representative Citizens - Publ. by Biographical Publishing Co. - Chicago, Ill. - 1908 - Page 865

  SENEY A. DECKER, attorney at law, at Barberton, is a leading member of the Summit County bar and has been established in this city since May, 1903, having convenient offices in the Barberton Savings Bank building.  He was born in Seneca County, Ohio, March 11, 1875, and is a son of Samuel and Lovina (Noel) Decker.
     Mr. Decker
was reared on his father's farm and attended the country schools.  He was an ambitious boy and made the most of his opportunities and secured a certificate permitting him to teach, before he had completed his own education.  For five years he taught country schools and then attended Heidelberg College, at Tiffin, Ohio, for two years, following this by the study of law in the office of Platt & Black, leading attorneys at Tiffin.  After two years of study there he attended the Ohio Normal University, at Ada, for eight months, and on December 6, 1902, he was admitted to the bar.  His close devotion to study had somewhat impaired his health, and he returned to the home farm, where he remained until the following March, when he located for practice at Attica.  From there, six weeks later, he came to Barberton, where he found he was not deceived in believing that a field of business was awaiting him.
     On February 10, 1905, Mr. Decker was married to Minnie Leininger, who was a daughter of Isaac and Elizabeth Leininger, of Flat Rock, Seneca County, Ohio.  Mr. Decker is fraternally connected with the Elks and the Eagles.  His professional ability has brought him many business friends while the agreeable personality of himself and wife was led to their welcome admission into the most select social circles of Barberton.
Source: Centennial History of Summit County, Ohio and Representative Citizens - Publ. by Biographical Publishing Co. - Chicago, Ill. - 1908 - Page 275
  PHILIP F. DEEDS

Source: Centennial History of Summit County, Ohio and Representative Citizens - Publ. by Biographical Publishing Co. - Chicago, Ill. - 1908 - Page 1060

   
  ERNEST C. DEIBEL, general manager of the Renner Brewing Company and a resident of Akron for the past sixteen years, was born at Youngtown in 1862.  After completing his education in his native city, he became connected with the brewing interests, and later took a course in the Brewing Academy, at Chicago.  In 1892 he came to Akron and assumed the position of general manager of the Renner Brewing Company.  He is also the manager of the Renner-Deibel Gas Company, operating sixty-two wells in Columbiana County, Ohio.  He married Elizabeth Renner, who is a daughter of George J. Renner, and they have one child, Helen DeibelMr. Deibel is a member of the Eagle and Elk fraternities.  He belongs to St. Bernard's Catholic Church at Akron.
Source: Centennial History of Summit County, Ohio and Representative Citizens - Publ. by Biographical Publishing Co. - Chicago, Ill. - 1908 - Page 441
  JOHN H. DELLENBERGER

Source: Centennial History of Summit County, Ohio and Representative Citizens - Publ. by Biographical Publishing Co. - Chicago, Ill. - 1908 - Page 379

  JEREMIAH DICE

Source: Centennial History of Summit County, Ohio and Representative Citizens - Publ. by Biographical Publishing Co. - Chicago, Ill. - 1908 - Page 782

  JOHN F. DICE,* one of Summit County's good, practical farmers, who resides on an excellent farm of ninety acres, located in Franklin Township, was born May 9, 1856, near Manchester, Summit County, Ohio, and is a son of Jeremiah and Caroline (Dissinger) Dice.
     Jeremiah Dice
, who was a native of Pennsylvania, came to Ohio as a young man, and for some years was engaged in work on various farms of Franklin Township.  He subsequently purchased the farm now operated by John F. Dice, and at the time of his death, Feb. 28, 1904, in his seventy-seventh year, he was considered a man of ample means.  Shortly after coming to Ohio, Mr. Dice was married to Caroline Dissinger, daughter of John Dissinger, one of the early pioneers of this section, and a native of Pennsylvania.  Mrs. Dice, who was born in Ohio, survives her husband.  Seven children were born to Jeremiah band Caroline Dice, namely:  John Franklin; Mary, who married M. Waltz; William; Alma, who married J. Baughman; Elton; Emma, who married Thomas Sauers; and Marvin.
     John F. Dice
received his early educational training in the district schools of his native township, and here he has spent his entire life in agricultural pursuits.  In association with his mother he owns the home farm of ninety acres, and his careful cultivation has largely increased its value.  On Jan. 31, 1877, Mr. Dice was married to Savilla Snyder, who is a daughter of George and Susan (Kepler) Snyder.  Two children have been born to this union, namely: Bertha, who married Clarence Snyder, residing in Akron; and Irving, who also makes his home at Akron.  Mr. Dice is a member of the Reformed Church, of which he is now serving as treasurer.  In political matters Mr. Dice is a Democrat, but he has never aspired to public office, preferring to give his time and attention to his home interests.  He is fraternally connected with the Maccabes.

Source: Centennial History of Summit County, Ohio and Representative Citizens - Publ. by Biographical Publishing Co. - Chicago, Ill. - 1908 - Page 1112
  WILLIAM A. DICE

Source: Centennial History of Summit County, Ohio and Representative Citizens - Publ. by Biographical Publishing Co. - Chicago, Ill. - 1908 - Page 782

  GEN. CHARLES DICK

Source: Centennial History of Summit County, Ohio and Representative Citizens - Publ. by Biographical Publishing Co. - Chicago, Ill. - 1908 - Page 1077

  ALEXANDER DICKINSON

Source: Centennial History of Summit County, Ohio and Representative Citizens - Publ. by Biographical Publishing Co. - Chicago, Ill. - 1908 - Page 1003

  CLARENCE F. DIEHL

Source: Centennial History of Summit County, Ohio and Representative Citizens - Publ. by Biographical Publishing Co. - Chicago, Ill. - 1908 - Page 1084

  A. J. DIETRICH

Source: Centennial History of Summit County, Ohio and Representative Citizens - Publ. by Biographical Publishing Co. - Chicago, Ill. - 1908 - Page 638

  G. CARL DIETZ, secretary of the Burkhardt Brewing Company, and president of the Depositor's Savings Bank, of Akron, was born in this city in March, 1875, and is a son of Henry and Caroline (Rupp) Dietz.
     His parents were both born in Germany and came to Akron almost a half century ago.  The father, an iron worker, died when G. Carl was still a youth, leaving his wife with a family of six small children to rear.  Thus the subject of this sketch at an unusually early age was obliged to relieve his mother of a part of her heavy burden, and responsibilities fell on his shoulders before he was hardly old enough to assume them.  He gave all the assistance he could in the rearing of the family, and guided his younger brothers and sisters to careers of usefulness.  Laboring through the day time and attending school at night.  Mr. Dietz acquired a good business education, and finally obtained a position in the People's Savings Bank, where he remained for ten years.  He later became cashier of the Security Savings Bank, having previously been a clerk in a clothing store for some three years.  Still later Mr. Dietz retired from the Security institution, after serving five years, and became secretary of the M. Burkhardt Brewing Company.  The bank business, however, continuing to have attractions for him, he became one of the organizers of the Depositors' Savings Bank, which was opened for business Apr. 15, 1907, and of which he was made president.  He also fills the position of secretary and treasurer of the Burkhardt Realty Company.
     On Nov. 17, 1902, Mr. Dietz was married to Ida Burkhardt, who is a daughter of the late W. Burkhardt.  He and his wife are members of the German Reformed Church.  He has the esteem and confidence of his fellow-citizens, many of whom have traced his successful business career from boyhood.

Source: Centennial History of Summit County, Ohio and Representative Citizens - Publ. by Biographical Publishing Co. - Chicago, Ill. - 1908 - Page 445
  CHARLES A. DIXON, M. D., physician and surgeon, with offices at No. 634 South Main Street, Akron, has been a resident of this city for the past thirteen years, and is an eminent representative of the Homoeopathic School of Medicine, in Summit County.  He was born in Dec., 1871, in Genesee County, N.Y.
     Dr. Dixon was educated at Batavia, New York, graduating from the High School and from Devoe College, and subsequently, in 1894, from the Cleveland Medical College, at Cleveland, Ohio.  He located immediately at Akron, where he now enjoys a large and lucrative practice.  He is president of the Summit County homeopathic Clinical Society and member of the Northeastern Homeopathic Medical Society, the State Homeopathic Medical Society and the Summit County Medical Club.  He is a close student and enthusiastic scientific investigator and his numerous papers are listened to with interest and profit by the members of the various professional organizations in which they are read.  He is one of the directors of the Summit County Medical club.  Dr. Dixon is a Thirty-second Degree Mason, belonging to the Blue Lodge Chapter, Council and Commandery, at Akron, and to Lake Erie Consistory and Alkoran Shrine, at Cleveland, being an official in the lesser branches.  He belongs also to the Masonic Club, an exclusive organization at Akron.

Source: Centennial History of Summit County, Ohio and Representative Citizens - Publ. by Biographical Publishing Co. - Chicago, Ill. - 1908 - Page 797
  RUSSELL T. DOBSON

Source: Centennial History of Summit County, Ohio and Representative Citizens - Publ. by Biographical Publishing Co. - Chicago, Ill. - 1908 - Page 726

  BURDETTE L. DODGE

Source: Centennial History of Summit County, Ohio and Representative Citizens - Publ. by Biographical Publishing Co. - Chicago, Ill. - 1908 - Page 984

  WILLIAM M. DODGE

Source: Centennial History of Summit County, Ohio and Representative Citizens - Publ. by Biographical Publishing Co. - Chicago, Ill. - 1908 - Page 268

  G. C. DONALDSON

Source: Centennial History of Summit County, Ohio and Representative Citizens - Publ. by Biographical Publishing Co. - Chicago, Ill. - 1908 - Page 803

  BURT DONCASTER

Source: Centennial History of Summit County, Ohio and Representative Citizens - Publ. by Biographical Publishing Co. - Chicago, Ill. - 1908 - Page 865

  CLINTON A. DOX

Source: Centennial History of Summit County, Ohio and Representative Citizens - Publ. by Biographical Publishing Co. - Chicago, Ill. - 1908 - Page 415

  HON. DAYTON A. DOYLE

Source: Centennial History of Summit County, Ohio and Representative Citizens - Publ. by Biographical Publishing Co. - Chicago, Ill. - 1908 - Page 318

  PETER W. DOYLE

Source: Centennial History of Summit County, Ohio and Representative Citizens - Publ. by Biographical Publishing Co. - Chicago, Ill. - 1908 - Page 1074

  HON. WILLIAM B. DOYLE

Source: Centennial History of Summit County, Ohio and Representative Citizens - Publ. by Biographical Publishing Co. - Chicago, Ill. - 1908 - Page 318

  PETER W. DOYLE

Source: Centennial History of Summit County, Ohio and Representative Citizens - Publ. by Biographical Publishing Co. - Chicago, Ill. - 1908 - Page 1074

  HON. WILLIAM B. DOYLE

Source: Centennial History of Summit County, Ohio and Representative Citizens - Publ. by Biographical Publishing Co. - Chicago, Ill. - 1908 - Page 276

  CHARLES DREISBACH

Source: Centennial History of Summit County, Ohio and Representative Citizens - Publ. by Biographical Publishing Co. - Chicago, Ill. - 1908 - Page 544

 

 

GEORGE DREISBACH

Source: Centennial History of Summit County, Ohio and Representative Citizens - Publ. by Biographical Publishing Co. - Chicago, Ill. - 1908 - Page 544

  ADAM DUNCAN

Source: Centennial History of Summit County, Ohio and Representative Citizens - Publ. by Biographical Publishing Co. - Chicago, Ill. - 1908 - Page 886

  R. H. DUNCAN

Source: Centennial History of Summit County, Ohio and Representative Citizens - Publ. by Biographical Publishing Co. - Chicago, Ill. - 1908 - Page 886

  ALBERT G. DURSTINE

Source: Centennial History of Summit County, Ohio and Representative Citizens - Publ. by Biographical Publishing Co. - Chicago, Ill. - 1908 - Page 785

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