Clearfield County PA Archives - Obituaries: Dale, Edmund, July 1918

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   Edmund Dale, widely known throughout this region, died at his home in
Bradford township, Clearfield County, on Wednesday evening, July 17, 1918, at
8 PM.  He had been ill only for a brief time.
    
    Born in Philipsburg October 11, 1829, Mr. Dale was well on into his
eighty-ninth year at the time of his death.  His parents were Mr. and Mrs.
John Dale, the former being the son of Joseph and Mary Dale, of Manchester,
England, who came to Philipsburg back in 1819, when Hardman Phillips was
having his struggle to found our pretty town in the heart of what was then a
great American wilderness.  The Dale family is properly regarded as one of
the oldest in this section of the state.
 
    The subject of this sketch was one of ten children, all of whom are now
dead with the exception of one brother, David, of Bradford township, and one
sister, Mrs. Gwen Graham of Grahampton.  He was married in 1856 to Miss Eliza
Jane Hunter of Morris township, who, with the following children, survives,
namely;  Wilbur E., of Madera; Dr. Wallace H., of Houtzdale; Dr. John A., of
Philipsburg; Andrew C., of Bloomfield, N.J.; Roland E., of Bradford township;
Dr. William E., of Altoona; Ernest H., of Philadelphia, and Mrs. Lynn
McDowell, of Altoona.  There are also fifteen grandchildren and one great
grandchild of Mr. and Mrs. Edmund Dale.  It will be noticed that three of
their sons are in the medical profession.
 
    Edmund Dale engaged in the early lumbering operations of Clearfield
county and later followed farming.  His father was probably the first and
only man in Philipsburg who was a hatter by trade, and who followed the trade
here.  On three different occasions he walked to Philadelphia to order goods
for his shop, the stock being transported by wagon.  He moved to Bradford
township when Edmund Dale was but five years of age.  There his father again
engaged in the hattering business.