Washington Co., AR - Biographies - Charles Dale *********************************************** This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: The Goodspeed Publishing Co Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgenwebarchives.org *********************************************** Charles Dale, lumberman of Fayetteville, Ark., was born in Port Huron, Mich., April 17, 1846, and is a son of Perry H. Dale, a contractor and builder of that city, a native of Rochester, Genesee Co., N. Y., being a son of an English gentleman who came to America and made a settlement in York State. Perry H. Dale was married to Miss E. A. Spalding, a daughter of Jedediah Spalding, of New Hampshire. Charles Dale grew to maturity at Port Huron, and at the age of eighteen years left his father's sash and door factory, in which he worked, and went to Cleveland, Ohio, where he enlisted in the Tenth United States Infantry April 16, 1864, and was soon sent to the front. The first important battle in which he participated was the battle of the Wilderness, and he afterward took an important part in the following battles: Spottsylvania Court House, North Anna River, Cold Harbor, Siege of Vicksburg, and Weldon Railroad. He was severely wounded in the right foot at the latter engagement, which incapacitated him for further service. After recovering from his wound he was appointed to special duty as clerk at the general headquarters at New York City, afterward filling the same position for Gens. Hooker, Sherman, Cook and Terry, and was mustered out of service at Fort Snelling, Minn., in 1867. After spending a few months at home he went West, visiting Kansas City and Sherman, Tex., and on his way home visited Fayetteville, Ark., and Springfield, Mo., spending some months in the latter place. In 1869 he went to Kansas, where he was engaged in the lumber business for one year, and after his return to Michigan he accepted the agency for the Port Huron & Lake Michigan Railway, spending two years in the employ of that corporation. He resigned his position March 4, 1873, and after a short time went to Cincinnati, Ohio, thence to Chicago, where he was engaged in the patent right business for a number of years. In 1879 he went to Kansas with S. A. Brown & Co., and was engaged in the lumber business in that State until 1883, when he came to Fayetteville, Ark., and purchased the lumber interests of S. A. Brown & Co., which business he has conducted with good success up to the present time. He was married at Vicksburg, Mich., to Miss Prudence Williams, a daughter of Myron Williams, a [p.933] leading mill owner, lumberman, merchant and vessel owner of that place, and their union has been blessed in the birth of one child, Nina. Mr. Dale and wife attend the Episcopal Church, and he is a member of the K. of P., of which society he is a charter member, and is also a charter member of the Fayetteville Gun Club, the Fayetteville Electric Light Company and the Building and Loan Association.