LENOIR COUNTY, NC - Obit. - James Harlow Dibble, 1878.

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JAMES HARLOW DIBBLE - 1878

Copy of original OBIT found at Heritage Place, Lenoir County Community
College, Kinston, North Carolina - Vertical File DIBBLE#04543-1

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The Kinston Journal - 27, December 1878

In Kinston, NC, on Friday, Dec. 20th 1878, JAMES HARLOW DIBBLE, of
apoplexy, in his 75th year.

In the death of Mr. Dibble our community mourn the loss of one of its
oldest citizens, to whom the town of Kinston and the surrounding country
is more indebted for its material prosperity than any man that has ever
lived among us.

James H. Dibble was born in Connecticut in 1804, and moved to this State
about 1842. He found this section of country sparsely settled with
farmers who had no communication with the commercial world save by carts
and wagons and with no manufacturers beyond the rude smith and
wheel-wright at country cross roads. The firm of Dibble & Bros. From
that time became an integral factor in advancing the material prosperity
of Eastern North Carolina. The navigation of Neuse river from New Bern
to Smithfield was soon inaugurated by them and rival lines of steamers
continued to plow its waters up to the beginning of the war. And the
establishment of a mammoth carriage and buggy factory in the town of
Kinston gave the struggling village an impetus which under the fostering
care of the firm made it bid fair to become an important manufacturing
and commercial center. At one time there was employed one hundred and
sixty hands in the buggy and carriage factory, turning out yearly nearly
one thousand vehicles of different kinds.

But the war came on closing up all such industries and as we are just
beginning to recover our old prosperity we see the old land-marks
passing away. Thought born in a distant State, our community regarded
him as a friend and brother, whose kind and generous heart never failed
to respond to every call of charity, even to sharing the last penny with
the poor and distressed.

His remains were interred in the Town Cemetery on Sunday, Dec. 22nd by
the Masonic Fraternity of St. John's Lodge, No 96 A. F. &. A. M. of
which he was a member - assisted by Kinston Lodge No. 316 and attended
by nearly every citizen of Kinston.