Jonah Franklin Dyer (1826 - 1879)

Born 15 Apr 1826 in Eastport, Washington, Maine, United States

Ancestors

Husband of Maria Haskell Thayer (French) Dyer — married 4 May 1853 in Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts, United States

Husband of Maria (Davis) Dyer — married 7 Sep 1854 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States

Died 9 Feb 1879 at age 52 in Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts, United States

Biography

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Death

Death:

Date: 9 FEB 1879

Place: Gloucester, Essex, Ma

Source: #S3

Page: Vol.310, Page 172

Cause: Phthisis Pulmonory

Title

Title: Dr.

User ID

User ID: 19E5F3DAD281A6428608C317354A842798D6

Occupation

Occupation:

Date: 1879

Place: Physician

Note

Note: MA 1928-27-248

1850 Census, Boston, Suffolk, Mass., Jonah F Dyer 24 Physician, Maine; Hannah Dyer 56, Nova Scotia (mother); Adelaide 11, Maine (sister); Sophronia Johnson 25, Maine; Marie McLean 14, unknown.

1860 Census, Gloucester, Essex, Ma:

Jonah F Dyer, 34, Physician, $2000, $1000, Me

Maria, 32, NH

Franklin, 4, Ma

1870 Census, Gloucester, Essex, Ma:

Dyer, J. Franklin, 44, Physician, $10,000, $2000, Maine

Dyer, Maria D, 42, Keeping House, NH

Dyer, George B, 35, Grocer (ret), Maine (brother)

Dyer, Sophia G, 33, No Occupation, Ma (sis-in-law)

Dyer, Franklin, 13, At School, Ma

Dyer, Edward G, 7/12, At Home, Ma

A successful physician of Gloucester MA, member of the city's first Board of Aldermen, and subsequently its Mayor. He was born Eastport ME 15 Apr 1826 son of Charles and Hannah (Snow) Dyer, graduated from Bowdoin Medical College with the class of 1849, studied under Dr. Trafton of South Berwick ME., practiced in Boston for two years, then Annisquam and spent time in the army. In August 1861 service as surgeon of the 19th Mass. until Aug 1864, was also acting medical director of the Second Army Corps. Was a member of the GAR. He learned the trade of printer and with a partner published the Eastport Sentinel for a time. He married 7 Sep 1854 Maria Davis --- His father was a native of Westbrook ME. other children of his parents were:

Eliabeth b 19 Dec 1819 died 14 Dec 1822; Charles Henry b 20 Aug 1821;

William Snow b 21 Dec 1823 d 14 Aug 1882; George Burton b 29 MAr 1835;

Adelaide b 15 Apr 1839.

REF: Biographical Review pg 52. Biographical Review says Jonah and Maria (Davis) Dyer had only one child, Edward J b 1869, perhaps because Franklin died in 1875. [AWM]

 !BIRTH-DEATH: Pringle,"Hist Gloucester, Essex, Ma", p247

 !SPOUSES-MARRIAGES-CHILDREN-DEATH: Ken Wiley, "Vital Records from Eastport Sentinel 1818-1900", 1996, Camden Press,p127, 323; NOTE: Called Dr.; Second marriage by Rev. A Bigelow. She of Hancock, Hillsborough, Nh. More information "in original" article on death.

History of the Town and City of Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts

Author: James R. Pringle

Call Number: F74.G5P7

This book contains the history of Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts.

Bibliographic Information: Pringle, James R. History of the Town and City of Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts. Published by the Author. Massachusetts. 1892.

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Page 247

CITY ELECTION.

At the city election in December, J. Franklin Dyer, Republican, was elected mayor, receiving 1075 votes to 1006 for Samuel A. Stacy, Democrat. Board of Aldermen elected for 1878, Ward 1, George Dennis; 2, William M. Gaffney; 3, Isaac A. S. Steele; 4, George L. Fears; 5, Abbott Coffin; 6, William T. Merchant; 7, Levi Saunders; 8, Abraham Haskell. Mackerel inspection 49,044 barrels, a large falling off from previous years.

J. Franklin Dyer, M. D., was born in Eastport, Washington, Me., April 15, 1826, graduated at the Bowdoin Medical School in 1849, and after practising two years in Boston, came to Annisquam, afterwards to the city proper, engaging in the active duties of his profession. He enlisted in the army August 22, 1861, serving through 1864, first as surgeon of the Nineteenth Mass., as Acting Surgeon General of his division and as Acting Medical Director of the Second Army Corps. He was elected to the legislature in 1869, served upon the school committee for a number of years, on the Board of Health and was town physician. He was four years an alderman, then mayor. He was a careful, conscientious man, greatly esteemed by the community. He died February 1, 1879.

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Page 245

The aldermen elected for 1876 were: Ward 1, Samuel Haskell; 2, William M. Gaffney; 3, Joseph Rowe; 4, Aaron W. Bray; 5, Nehemiah D. Cunningham; 6, J. Franklin Dyer; 7, Gilman Harvey; 8, Daniel Bray, Jr.

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Page 243, 244

The Board of Aldermen elected for 1875 were as follows: Ward 1, William H. Wonson, 3d; 2, George Friend; 3, Eli F. Stacy; 4, Aaron W. Bray; 5, Samuel A. Stacy; 6, J. Franklin Dyer; 7, George Barker; 8, Henry C. L. Haskell. Number of barrels of mackerel inspected during the year, 118,313 1/2.

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Page 237

CHAPTER XI. Incorporation as a City. FIRST EFFORTS FOR THE ADOPTION OF A CITY CHARTER FAILS.

SECOND SUCCESSFUL. DIVIDED INTO WARDS, FIRST CITY ELECTION. ROBERT R. FEARS ELECTED MAYOR. ALLAN ROGERS CHOSEN AS CHIEF EXECUTIVE. CENTENNIAL EXHIBIT. THE HALIFAX

COMMISSION AND ITS AWARD OF $5,500,000. MAYOR J. FRANKLIN DYER. THE FORTUNE BAY RIOT. WILLIAM WILLIAMS ELECTED MAYOR. PROTEST AGAINST THE TREATY OF WASHINGTON. JOSEPH GARLAND ELECTED MAYOR. MR. WILLIAMS RE-ELECTED. SUCCEEDED BY WILLIAM H. WONSON, 3d. JOHN S. PARSONS THE NEXT CHIEF EXECUTIVE. SUCCESSFUL CRUSADE AGAINST LAWBREAKERS.

TROUBLE WITH CITY MARSHALS. FISHERY TROUBLES RENEWED. DAVID I. ROBINSON CHOSEN MAYOR. RETALIATORY BILL. SEIZURES OF FISHING VESSELS. BAYARD-CHAMBERLAIN TREATY. MODUS VIVENDI. MAYOR ROBINSON REFUSES TO SIGN LIQUOR LICENSES AND RESIGNS. W. W. FRENCH ELECTED. MORE SEIZURES OF VESSELS. ASA G. ANDREWS, MAYOR. 1892. THE 250th ANNIVERSARY OF INCORPORATION.

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Page 180

J. Franklin Dyer, mus. August 22, 1861, for three years, surgeon, 19th R., eng.: Ball's Bluff, Yorktown, West Point, Fair Oaks, June 1 and 16, 1862; Orchard Station, Savage Station, White Oak Swamp, Glendale, Malvern Hill, First and Second Bull Run, South Mountain, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Bristow Station, Mine Run, Wilderness, Po River, Spottsylvania, North Anna River, Tolopotomy Creek, Cold Harbor, Petersburg, Strawberry Plains, Ream's Station; appointed surgeon-in-chief, Second Division, Second Army Corps, on General Howard's staff, December 3, 1862; dis. August 28, 1864.

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J. Franklin Dyer, Camp 24, Sons of Veterans, was organized June 26, 188

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The Journal of a Civil War Surgeon (Book for sale on Amazon.com)

by J. Franklin Dyer, Michael B. Chesson (Editor)

Book Description

J. Franklin Dyers journal offers a rare perspective on three years of the Civil War as seen through the eyes of a surgeon at the front. The journal, taken from letters written to his wife, Maria, describes in lengthy and colorful detail the daily life of a doctor who began as a regimental surgeon in the Nineteenth Massachusetts Volunteers and was promoted to acting medical director of the Second Corps, Army of the Potomac.

This firsthand account traces Dyers attempts to manage his Gloucester household even as the Second Corps fought on the Peninsula, at Second Bull Run, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, and from the Wilderness to Petersburg. Over time his letters to his wife become fraught with the tension of a man losing his early martial ardor as he witnesses the ghastly procession of suffering and death.

Both a talented surgeon and a careful administrator, Dyer nevertheless declined opportunities to work at hospitals in the rear in order to stay near his old regiment and the fighting. He confronted the aftermath of battlethousands of wounded and dying menwith a small staff and simple instruments. He and his fellow surgeons saved lives as best they couldoften at the cost of amputated limbsthen dropped to the ground from exhaustion and slept in blood-drenched uniforms until the cries of the wounded woke them and induced them back to work. Dyer also provides a glimpse of the most devastating opponent the armies faced: disease. He and his medical colleagues fought cholera, typhus, dysentery, measles, and, despite official denials in Washington , a scurvy outbreak that weakened Federal units during the Peninsula campaign.

Michael B. Chesson is a professor of history at the University of Massachusetts, Boston.

Dyer Jonah F. Gloucester 1854 78 153 Marriage

"In Boston, 7th inst., Dr. J. M. Dyer of Annisquam, Ms to Miss Maria Davis of Hancock."

Dyer Jonah F. Gloucester 1853 69 189 Marriage

Dyer Jonah F. Boston 1853 71 49 Marriage

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Marriage:

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Place: Boston, Suffolk, Ma

Source: #S665

Page: 52

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Place: Gloucester, Essex, Ma

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Marriage:

Date: 31 JAN 1819

Place: Eastport, Washington, Me

Source: #S122

Source: #S443

Page: Newburyport_Herald.; Date: 1819-02-19; Vol: XXII; Iss: 93; Page: [3]

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Title: Marriage Index - Maine (1743-1891) CD #404

Publication: Family Tree Maker

Abbreviation: Marriage Index - Maine (1743-1891) CD #404

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Title: Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841-1910 (NEHGS)

Abbreviation: Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841-1910 (NEHGS)

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Title: 1870 US Census, Massachusetts

Abbreviation: 1870 US Census, Massachusetts

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Source S50

Call Number: R929.2 V79

Title: The Vinton Memorial

Author: Vinton, John Adams

Publication: Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts: S.K. Whipple & Co., 1858

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Title: Biographical Review Volume XXVIII Containing Life Sketches of Leading Citizens of Essex County Massachusetts. Boston, Suffolk, Ma

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Title: 1860 US Census, Massachusetts

Abbreviation: 1860 US Census, Massachusetts

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