Whiteside County IL Archives Biographies.....Dyer, John 
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Author: Portrait/Bio Album, Whiteside County IL 1885

John Dyer, retired merchant, Fulton, was born in Jefferson Co., N. Y., March 
6, 1824, the son of John and Eunice (Hurd) Dyer. He was educated in the public 
schools of his native county and learned the shoemaker's trade in the city of 
Watertown. In May, 1842, he went to Lockport, Niagara County, where he was 
first employed as journeyman and subsequently as foreman in a large boot and 
shoe making establishment. He was married in Lockport, March 12, 1843, to Miss 
Sarah A. Webb. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. Elon Galusha, son of ex-
Gov. Galusha, of Vermont. Mrs. Dyer was born in the town of Perry, Geauga Co., 
Ohio, and is the daughter of Leamon and Eunice (Anderson) Webb, and is a 
cousin of the well-known Baptist minister and college president, Galusha 
Anderson, of Chicago. In April, 1856, Mr. Dyer went to Wisconsin, and a few 
months later to Clinton, Iowa. He spent one year in Clinton and came to 
Fulton, Oct. 7, 1857, opening at once in the boot and shoe trade, which he 
continued till 1861, when he closed. On the breaking out of the late war he 
enlisted, in September, 1861; was commissioned Second Lieutenant of Co. F, 52d 
Ill. Vol. Inf., and was mustered into the service in November following. He 
continued in active service till March, 1862, when he was compelled to resign 
on account of physical disability caused by exposure in the field. In August, 
following the President's call of July, 1862, for additional troops, he 
assisted in recruiting Co. F of the 93d Ill. Vol. Inf., of which he was 
commissioned First Lieutenant. The regiment went into active service early 
that fall, under Sherman's command. The following spring Lieutenant Dyer was 
again prostrated by a serious illness, and was obliged to resign, in April, 
1863, on account of physical disability brought on in the service. His health 
improved slowly, and he was unable to resume business till the beginning of 
1864, when he again engaged in his former business at Fulton. He continued in 
trade till 1873, when he sold out and retired from business. Mr. Dyer has held 
various public positions of honor and trust since a resident of Fulton. He has 
served as Alderman one term, Collector of the township in 1860, Supervisor 
five years, three of which were in succession. He was elected Police Justice 
and Justice of the Peace. He has held the latter office 12 years, and has just 
been re-elected this spring (1885). He has also been Township School Trustee 
six years. Mr. and Mrs. Dyer are members of the Baptist Church of Fulton. Mr. 
Dyer was a Free-Soil Democrat in Van Buren's time, and on the organization of 
the Republicans he joined that party, and has voted that ticket continuously 
since, excepting the campaign of 1872, when he voted for Greeley. Mr. Dyer's 
family was represented in Illinois in a very early day, his brother, the Rev. 
Sidney Dyer, Ph. D., a popular Baptist minister, now of Philadelphia, having 
explored the territory as early as 1832.

Additional Comments:
Portrait and Biographical Album of Whiteside County, Illinois, Containing Full-
page Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative 
Citizens of the County. Chicago: Chapman Brothers, 1885.

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