William Leslie Dining Biography from History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire
From: Patricia Cooper - pcooper@peaknet.net

Surname: DINING
Source:  History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire and Representative Citizens
          by Charles A. Hazlett, Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., Chicago, Ill., 1915

Page 913

  WILLIAM LESLIE DINING is a prosperous farmer of Stratham,
Rockingham County, N. H, and makes a specialty of dairying and
market gardening on his farm of sixty-three acres. He was born in
North Hampton, Rockingham County, March I, 1880, and is a son of
William and Sarah (Moulton) Dining.
  William Dining, the father, was born in Bangor, Maine, and his wife
in North Hampton, Rockingham County. He is a farmer by occupation
and they now reside in the town of Stratham. They have three chil-
dren: Florence, wife of Frank Bacheldor; William Leslie, and Charles.
Religiously, they are members of the Baptist church.
Wil1iam Leslie Dining attended the public schools of Stratham,
and as a young man hired out as a farm hand. He continued in the em-
ploy of others for ten years after which he started in for himself. He

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leased land for five years and then moved on to his present farm of
sixty three acres which he had bought two years previously from Emma
B. "Wiggin. In addition to general farming, he follows dairying and
truck gardening, shipping milk to Lynn, Mass., and disposing of his
garden produce at Exeter, N. H. 
Mr. Dining was united in marriage with Miss Myrtle H. Rokes of
Greenland, a daughter of Emery H. and Louise Olive (Farrel) Rokes,
who still live in Greenland, were he is engaged in teaming. The Rokes
family consists of two children, Burton E. and Myrtle H. (Dining). Mr.
and Mrs. Dining have the following children: Ora M., Carl M., and
Muriel L. He is a Democrat in politics and served four years as select-
man, and one term in the legislature, Fraternally, he is a member of the
Junior Order United American Mechanics. He and his family attend
the Christian Baptist Church. They are deeply interested in the wel-
fare of the community and have many friends.

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