Sonoma County CA Archives Biographies.....Dimmick, F. M. 1827 - 
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Author: Alley, Bowen & Co. (1880)

Dimmick, Rev. F. M. The subject of this sketch, the Rev. Francis Marion Dimmick,
is a descendant of the old Puritan stock of the "Pilgrim Fathers," whose
ancestors came from England somewhere between 1620 and 1630, and settled in the
immediate vicinity of Plymouth Rock, at Barnstable and Scituate. His father's
name was Martial Dimmick, who came with his father, Edward Dimmick, from
Windham, Connecticut, to Susquehanna county, Pennsylvania, in 1808, when that
county was an almost unbroken wilderness; and his mother's father, Ransford
Smith, came also from Connecticut two years later. His father and mother,
Martial Dimmick and O'Shea Smith, were the eldest children of these two
families, and were married in 1812. Of the children who lived to an adult age,
he was the fourth son, and was born in Uniondale, Susquehanna county,
Pennsylvania, January 23, 1827, and his earlier life was spent on his father's
farm, which lay on both sides of the east branch of the Lackawanna. In 1842 he
first went from home to Harford Academy, where he remained nearly a year. In
February, 1844, he went up to Hampton, Oneida county, New York, and attended the
Delancy Institute about five months. In September of that year he commenced
teaching a public school at New Troy, in Wyoming valley, where he remained seven
months, and then went to the Wyoming Seminary, at Kingston, under the care of
Rev. Reuben Nelson, D. D., who held that position twenty-eight years, until
elected Superintendent of the Methodist Book Concern in New York in 1872; he
died February 20, 1879. Mr. Dimmick subsequently taught a Winter at Providence,
near Scranton (1845-46), also a Winter at his old home in Uniondale (1846 and
1847), and then a year and a half at Oxford Meeting House, near Bel-videre, in
New Jersey, and began a term at New Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1849, after
having spent a Summer at Harford Academy. After having taught one month he was
prostrated by a very malignant attack of typhoid fever, from which he barely
recovered. He was not able to return home till the Spring of 1850. In the Autumn
of that year he began in earnest to carry out the felt necessity of his life,
and the early plan and desire of his heart, i. e., to prepare himself for the
Gospel Ministry, and consequently went to Marietta College, in Ohio, by the way
of Buffalo, Sandusky and Cincinnati. He graduated with honor, having supported
himself by his own efforts, July 27, 1854; and thereafter taught two years in
Marietta and one. year in Urban a, Ohio, having charge at each place of the
Public High School. He delivered the Master's oration at the commencement at
Marietta, July 2, 1857, and received the degree of A. M. In the Autumn of 1857
he "went to the Lane Theological Seminary, at Cincinnati, where he remained
three years. In 1857 he had published his work called Ann Clayton, or the
Inquirer After Truth, which is now published by the Presbyterian Board of
Publication, in Philadelphia. He was licensed to preach April 6, 1859, graduated
at the Seminary, May 10, 1860, and spent the Summer at his old home in
Pennsylvania, and returning, was ordained to the Gospel Ministry, November 7,
1860, by the Cincinnati Presbytery. Immediately after his ordination at
Cincinnati, he started for Omaha, Nebraska Territory, then only a village of
about fifteen hundred people. He there organized the Presbyterian Church, and
labored with it twelve years. He delivered the funeral oration on the death of
Abraham Lincoln, at the Nebraska Capitol, before an immense audience, and
yielded to the unanimous desire to have it published. In 1868 he was one of the
party under the auspices of the Young Men's Christian Association of the United
States who went out over the Union Pacific Railroad as far as the road was
completed. After he had been at Omaha three years, he returned to Cincinnati and
was married, September 15, 1863, to Miss Kate G. Wright, the only daughter of
Sylvanus Wright and Fanny P. Goodman Wright. Mr. and Mrs. Wright followed their
daughter to Omaha in 1866, and to Santa Rosa in 1874, where they still reside.
Mr. Dimmick's health having failed in Omaha, he sought a milder climate, and
after having spent the Summer in California, he came to Santa Rosa the last
Sabbath of 1872, and accepted a call to become the acting pastor of the
Presbyterian Church there, and was installed Pastor June 11, 1876, which
position he still retains.

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Santa Rosa Township

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HISTORY
—OF-
SONOMA COUNTY,
-INCLUDING ITS—
Geology, Topooraphy, Mountains, Valleys and Streams;
—TOGETHER WITH—
A Full and Particular Record of the Spanish Grants; Its Early History and
Settlement, Compiled from the Most Authentic Sources; the Names of Original
Spanish and American Pioneers; a full Political History, Comprising the Tabular
Statements of Elections and Office-holders since the Formation of the County;
Separate Histories of each Township, Showing the Advancement of Grape and Grain
 Growing Interests, and Pisciculture;
ALSO, INCIDENTS OF PIONEER LIFE; THE RAISING OF THE BEAR FLAG; AND BIOGRAPHICAL
SKETCHES OF EARLY AND PROMINENT SETTLERS AND REPRESENTATIVE MEN;
—AND OF ITS—
Cities, Towns, Churches, Schools, Secret Societies, Etc., Etc.
ILLUSTRATED.
SAN FRANCISCO:
ALLEY, BOWEN & CO., PUBLISHERS.
1880.


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