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"History of Colorado", edited by Wilbur Fisk Stone, published by The S. J. 
Clarke Publishing Co. (1918)  Vol. II



p.346-347



ORVILLE LEE DINES.

	Orville Lee Dines, a representative of the Denver bar, now 
prominently connected with the development of oil interests in the 
west, was born in Blandinsville, Illinois, September 4, 1871. His 
father, Charles W. Dines, was a native of Shelbyville, Missouri, and in 
early manhood engaged in merchandising. At one time he served as county 
clerk of McDonough county, Illinois, and afterward became assistant 
secretary of state. He was very prominent in political connections and 
exercised much influence in the affairs of the democratic party. He was 
descended from Scotch-Irish ancestry, and the family has been 
represented for several generations in the United States. He married 
Alta Hopper, who was born in Blandinsville, Illinois, and her death 
occurred in 1910, while the death of Mr. Dines was in 1914.

	Orville Lee Dines was a pupil in the public schools of Macomb, 
Illinois, to the age of sixteen years, when he went to Fayette, 
Missouri, where he attended Central College for three years. In 1892 he 
started out in life independently. For a number of years he was engaged 
in teaching, spending one year as assistant principal of the schools of 
Brunswick, Missouri, and two years as principal of the schools of 
Keytesville, Missouri. At a later period he was elected to the office 
of county commissioner of schools in Chariton county, Missouri. Turning 
his attention to newspaper work, he became editor of the Brunswicker, a 
weekly newspaper, published at Brunswick, Missouri, but was attracted 
to the profession of law and began preparation for the bar, to which he 
was admitted in Fayette, Missouri, in 1896. He then opened an office in 
Mexico, that state, where he remained in practice for a year, after 
which he spent a year and a half on the editorial staff of the West 
Publishing Company, the largest law-book publishing company in the 
United States, working chiefly on the Century Digest at St. Paul, 
Minnesota, and at Washington, D. C. In 1899 he came to Denver, where he 
has since devoted the greater part of his time and attention to law 
practice, becoming associated with the firm of Dines & Whitted. He was 
also at one time tax agent for the Colorado Southern Railway. 
Subsequently he was admitted as a partner in the firm of Dines, Whitted 
& Dines, and in 1908 a change in the partnership occurred, leading to 
the adoption of the firm style of Dines, Dines & Holme. Orville L. 
Dines remained active in that connection until 1916, when he withdrew 
from that firm in order to be able to give his time exclusively to 
certain large oil interests. He has specialized in corporation law. He 
is also a director, and was one of the organizers, of the Seventeenth 
Street Building Company, which erected the First National Bank 
building, the largest and finest office building in Denver.

	Mr. Dines belongs to the Denver City and County Bar Association, 
the Colorado State Bar Association and the American Bar Association. 
Fraternally he is connected with Temple Lodge, No. 84, A. F. & A. M. 
Socially he is a member of the Denver Club, the Denver Athletic Club, 
the Denver Country Club and the Mile High Club. In politics he 
maintains an independent course but leans toward the democratic party. 
He finds his recreation largely in playing golf, but his efforts and 
attention are mostly directed to the interests of the Midwest Oil 
Company, of which he is a director and attorney, this being one of the 
leading oil companies operating in this section.