Sullivan-Bradford-Luzerne County PA Archives Biographies.....Dyer, John C. 1844 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/pafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher sdgenweb@yahoo.com March 13, 2007, 2:52 am Author: Thomas J. Ingham (1899) JOHN C. DYER, a prominent resident of Colley township, Sullivan county, has been extensively engaged in lumbering and other lines of business, his efforts being uniformly rewarded with success, and as a citizen he is held in high esteem for his sterling qualities of character. Mr. Dyer belongs to a well known family of Pike township, Bradford county, his grandfather, Samuel Dyer, a native of Long Island, having come to Pennsylvania in 1813, purchasing a farm on the old state road in Bradford county, where his death occurred some years later. His wife, Hilda Fairchild, a native of Connecticut, married again, but continued to reside in the same locality. To Samuel and Hilda Dyer the following children were born: Harriet, wife of Lyman White, of Herrick, Bradford county; Ephraim, our subject's father; Martha, deceased, married Lyman Madison, of Herrick; William, a farmer at Elkhart Grove, Carroll county, Illinois; Alvira, deceased, married Henry Sherman and lived in Missouri until her death; Charles, a farmer in Carroll county, Illinois. Ephraim Dyer was born and reared in Bradford county and was a farmer by occupation. In 1862 he moved to Kansas, where he became a prominent worker in the Republican party and in 1864 he took a position under the federal government, which he held for some time. He died at his homestead at Abilene, Dickinson county, Kansas, in 1896. His wife, Linda Taylor, who is still living in Kansas, was born in Bradford county, Pennsylvania, the daughter of Jonathan Taylor. Of their children, Nelson, who served four years in the United States army, resides at Abilene, Kansas; Emily married Mr. Pattery, of Abilene, Kansas; J. C., our subject; Samuel died in childhood; Ellen married Charles Depew, of Nebraska; Oscar, a merchant at Wyalusing, Bradford county, married Mrs. Liberty A. Orton; Justina, widow of Mr. Wilder, resides in Kansas; Frederick settled in California; and Etha resides in Kansas. J. C. Dyer, the immediate subject of this review, was born September 22, 1844, in Bradford county, where his youth was spent, his education being secured in the common schools of that locality. At the age of nineteen he found employment as a farm hand in Duchess county, New York, remaining two years, and later he spent a short time in similar work in Carroll county, Illinois. On his return to Pennsylvania he began farming and milling in Terry township, Bradford county, remaining about eighteen years. He owned about ninety acres of land, and during his residence there he devoted much time to lumbering. On disposing of this property he bought a farm in Pike township, Bradford county, which he sold two years later. He then ran a sawmill at Bernice, Sullivan county, for a year and a half, and for eleven years past he has been connected with a lumber mill at Ricketts, owned by Trexler & Turrell, being employed as filer and foreman. Politically he is a Republican, and while residing in Bradford county he served as school director and road commissioner, and in Sullivan county he has been a member of the election board in his township. For seven years he has been identified with the Masonic fraternity at Monroeton, Pennsylvania, and although not a church member he attends religious service and is always ready to assist in any worthy cause. In 1866 Mr. Dyer was married to Miss Mary A. Buttles, a native of Terry township, and three children have been born to them, namely: Albert, who resides in Lopez; Worth, who resides on Long Island and is in the employ of the Long Island Railroad company; and Sadie, who married Murray Tozer, head bookkeeper for Jennings Brothers at Lopez. Additional Comments: Extracted from: History of Sullivan County Pennsylvania by Thomas J. Ingham Compendium of Biography The Lewis Publishing Company Chicago: 1899 This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/pafiles/ File size: 4.4 Kb