ASHTABULA COUNTY OHIO - BIO: DINGEE, Robert Webster (published 1925)

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HISTORY OF OHIO, The American Historical Society, Inc., 1925
Volume IV, page 238

        ROBERT WEBSTER DINGEE, superintendent of the Pittsburgh Coal
Company at Ashtabula, has been in the service of that corporation and its
predecessor at Ashtabula since leaving the public schools when a boy.
        Mr. Dingee was born at Kingsville, in Ashtabula County, July 7,
1878. The Dingee family is of Holland-Dutch ancestry, and was established
in New York State in Colonial times. His grandfather, William Dingee, was
born in New York, and during the '30s moved to Willoughby, Ohio, where he
died in 1844. His wife was Lucy Alvord, a native of Willoughby, where she
spent all her life. Obed J. Dingee, father of Robert W., was born at
Willoughby in Lake County, December 23, 1842, was reared there, and as a
young man went to Kingsville, Ashtabula County, and until 1880 was with the
Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway as station agent. On leaving the
railway service he moved to Ashtabula and engaged in railroad construction
work, and in 1883 went with the Youghiogheny River Coal Company, and
continued with that corporation the rest of his life. However, some years
before his death the Pittsburgh Coal Company succeeded to the Youghiogheny
Coal Company's interests. His death occurred at Ashtabula January 10, 1910.
He was a republican and a member of the Masonic fraternity. Obed J. Dingee
married Agnes F. Fobes, who was born in Monroe Township of Ashtabula
County, May 20, 1849, and died at Ashtabula December 9, 1909. They were the
parents of five children: Myrta, who died when nine years old; Orin, who
died at the age of six; and James, who died aged eight months; Robert W.;
and Obed, who lives at Rochester, New York, and is sales engineer for the
Spencer Turbine Company.
        Robert Webster Dingee was four years of age when his parents moved
to Ashtabula, where he began his education. His attendance in public school
continued until he was fourteen years old, he having in the meantime, when
only eleven years of age, begun to work as office boy for the Youghiogheny
River Coal Company. His progressive responsibilities led up to the position
of dock foreman, and in 1900, when the Pittsburgh Coal Company took over
the Youghiogheny interests, he was made cashier of the local offices and
since 1911 has been superintendent.  The Pittsburgh Coal Company is the
largest corporation in the United States producing and distributing soft
coal. The local offices are in the New York Central Railroad Building on
Columbus Street in Ashtabula Harbor. Mr. Dingee is a stockholder in the
Pittsburgh Coal Company and also in the Marine National Bank of Ashtabula.
        He is a man of congenial social qualities and is affiliated with
Rising Sun Lodge No. 22, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, at Ashtabula,
Ashtabula Lodge No. 208, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, of which
he is a past exalted ruler, is past chancellor of Unity Lodge No. 133,
Knights of Pythias, and past chief ranger of Court McKinley No. 3875,
Independent Order of Foresters. He is a republican and a member of the
First Presbyterian Church. During the World war Mr. Dingee was assistant
chief of the American Protective League in the State of Ohio.
        His home is at 98 Station Street in Ashtabula. He married in that
city August 22, 1899, Miss Lula Dorman, daughter of Augusta T. and Mary
(Root) Dorman, now residents of Pasadena, California, where her father is a
dry goods merchant. Mr. Dingee lost his first wife by death May 16, 1906.
On June 10, 1910, at Ashtabula, he married Miss Grace V. Johnson, daughter
of John I. and Viola (Simms) Johnson, residents of Ashtabula, her father
being a retired farmer. The second wife of Mr. Dingee died march 27, 1919
leaving one daughter, Roberta Kathryn. On April 23, 1920, Mr. Dingee
married Mrs. Margaret (Ryan) Belnap, daughter of James and Katherine (Ryan)
Ryan, her mother now deceased. Her father is a resident of Willoughby,
Ohio, and connected with the Cleveland, Painesville and Ashtabula Railroad.


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