Clark-Thurston County WA Archives Biographies.....Dibble, George P. ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/wa/wafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Ila Wakley iwakley@msn.com October 26, 2009, 1:10 pm Source: History of the Columbia River Valley From The Dalles to the Sea, Vol. III, Published 1928, Pages 134-135 Author: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company GEORGE P. DIBBLE conducts an extensive and prosperous hay and feed business at Washougal, Clark county, and his citizenship has been of a type that has been beneficial to his community. He is a native of Kansas but was reared and attended school in Oklahoma and Missouri. His parents were William and Mary Dibble, the former of whom died in Oklahoma, while the latter died in Clark county, Washington, having spent the last five years of her life with her son George P. In 1888, when seventeen years old, Mr. Dibble came to Washington, locating on a farm near Olympia, where he remained three years, and then returned east. Locating at Grove, Oklahoma, he was appointed postmaster and served in that capacity for eight years, under Presidents McKinley and Roosevelt. On retiring from office he engaged in a mercantile business at that place until 1907, when he sold out and came again to Washington. In Washougal he bought a half interest in a general mercantile business, his partner being Eggert Nagel, and the firm of Nagel & Dibble carried on until 1920, when Mr. Dibble sold his interest to his partner, having decided to engage in farming. Buying a farm near Washougal, he devoted his attention to its operation for less than a year and then returned to town, taking over his present business. This had been established in about 1912 by Harry Savadge, who ran it for several years, and on his death and the settlement of the estate in 1920 Mr. Dibble bought the business. He now handles all kinds of feeds and flour, and buys and sells a large amount of hay, his trade extending all over the eastern part of Clark county and southern Skamania county, for which territory he uses a truck for delivery. He is energetic and up-to-date in his methods, gives every patron a square deal and to a marked degree commands the public confidence. While living in Oklahoma Mr. Dibble was united in marriage to Miss Jennie Morain, and to them have been born seven children, as follows: Bertha, the wife of Charles Roth, who conducts a store at Fishers, Washington, and they have two children, Marjorie and Verle; Grace, who is engaged in teaching at Bellingham, Washington; Elva, the wife of Glenn White, of Sunnyside, Washington, who teaches in the high school at that place, being a graduate of Pacific University; Ada, who was a teacher at Kelso, this state, and is deceased; Charles, who is engaged in the drug business at Onalaska, Washington; Ruth, who is at home; and Roger, who is associated with his father in business. Mr. Dibble has shown a commendable interest in public affairs, having formerly been a member of the city council, and is now rendering effective service as mayor of Washougal. He is keenly alive to the public interests and is working toward a number of needed public improvements. He has for thirty- five years been a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, in which he has passed through the chairs, and is a member of the Grange and the Chamber of Commerce. Mrs. Dibble is a member of the Rebekah Lodge and the Grange. They move in the best social circles of the community and are deservedly popular, and they give their influence in favor of those things which tend to better conditions and advance the general welfare. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/wa/clark/bios/dibble120gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/wafiles/ File size: 4.0 Kb