Will County IL Archives Biographies.....Dingley, William 1849 - 
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Author: Portrait & Bio Album, 1890

WILLIAM DINGLEY. In the employ of the Joliet Branch of the Illinois Steel 
Company's works are many skilled in the various departments of labor. To this 
class belongs William Dingley, day foreman in the converting works, and whose 
honest, earnest labors have been rewarded by a responsible and remunerative 
position, the confidence of his employers, and the esteem of his fellow-men. 
The gentleman with whose name we introduce this sketch is the only son of 
William and Harriet A. (Kimball) Dingley, the paternal family being of Scotch 
origin. William, Sr., was a foreman in the shoe making business in his eastern 
home, but upon coming West, which he did in 1858, he exchanged his former 
occupation for the more congenial business of raising and racing horses. For 
thirty years he was a well-known and respected citizen of Illinois. He was a 
cousin of Representative Dingley. He died in Joliet, January 21, 1888. His 
wife had long preceded him to the other world, having died at Mount Blue, Me., 
November 5, 1856. William Dingley, Jr., opened his eyes to the light in 
Cochituate, Mass., October 29, 1849, and after the death of his mother lived 
with his grandparents until he had attained his twelfth year. He then went to 
work for a firm in Chicago in the boot and shoe business, but coming to Joliet 
the same year he found employment with Firman Mack, in the same line of 
industry. In that business he continued to labor here and in Chicago until 
1876, when he entered the employ of the Joliet Iron and Steel Company. 
Beginning as a laborer on the lowest round of the ladder, Mr. Dingley by 
virtue of close application to business, combined with a natural aptitude, 
rose step by step to the position of foreman in the converting works, which 
place he attained in 1885,and has since held. Politically, he is a most ardent 
Republican. He has a decided taste for music and in its gratification finds a 
large measure of enjoyment. He is a member of the well-known Orpheus Glee 
Club. Realizing that it is not good for man to live alone Mr. Dingley wooed 
and won for his wife Miss Sarah Alexander, of Lockport, with whom he was 
united in marriage June 25, 1881. James L. Alexander, the father of the bride, 
was one of the early settlers of this county, whence he came from Wayne 
County, N.Y., in 1857. He took contracts on the Illinois and Michigan Canal, 
first on the section at Kankakee and subsequently in other localities. He was 
a well-read, thorough going business man, and enjoyed the respect of his 
neighbors in a marked degree. He died December 29, 1876. His daughter, Mrs. 
Dingley, received good advantages in the way of education and home training, 
and has made such use of them as fairly entitles her to a place among the more 
intelligent, useful, and honored members of the community.

Additional Comments:
Portrait and Biographical Album of Will County, Illinois, Containing Full Page 
Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens 
of the County; Chicago: Chapman Bros., 1890

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