Henry Mckenney Dingley (1858 - 1930)

Born 10 Aug 1858 in Androscoggin, Maine

Ancestors

Husband of Ora Mae (Davis) Dingley — married 21 Jun 1910 in Lewiston, Androscoggin County, Maine, United States [uncertain]

Biography

• One of the most striking mansions in Auburn, this Spanish-influenced Federal revival style house was designed for Horatio G. Foss, a prominent shoe magnate at the turn of the century. Along with his partner Henry M. Dingley, Foss helped Auburn earn its nickname “the shoe city.” Along with other shoe magnates such as Jacob Roak, Dingley/Foss created a shoe dynasty on the wrong side of the Androscoggin. In business since 1876 mostly creating so called athletic shoes the Dingley-Foss Shoe Company helped Auburn make it big during the”white shoe run” in the early 1900's.

http://bimgib-memorylane.blogspot.com/

• Androscoggin Electric Company (MS 644; Ledgers An29) :The company was incorporated by Chapter 177 of the Acts of 1913, approved March 25, 1913. Original corporators were Winfield S. Libbey, Henry M. Dingley, Harold S. Libbey and J.E. Parkhurst of Lewiston, and John A. Morrill of Auburn. With its principal office in Lewiston, the company was authorized to manufacture and sell electricity in Androscoggin County

http://www.library.umaine.edu/speccoll/FindingAids/CentralMainePowerCorecords.htm

• Another great leader in Worcester industry and civic affairs succeeded Mr. Logan as life member of the Corporation. Charles L. Allen, board chairman of the Norton Company, had been a term member of the Board since 1920. To complete Mr. Hill's term the Trustees elected James H. Manning,' 06, president of Stone & Webster Engineering Corp., New York. New trustees elected in 1930, on alumni nomination, were Albert J. Gifford, '96, Worcester manufacturer, and Henry M. Dingley, '79, Maine banker and shipbuilder, and Alfred 0. Weld, '04, of Boston, was reelected. Mr. Dingley served but a few months, for he died September 12, 1930.

http://www.wpi.edu/academics/library/history/seventyyears/page348.html

• Dingley-131 was created by Laura Scott through the import of WTDingley.ged on Jan 15, 2015.

Sources

• 1870 Census:

"United States Census, 1870", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M6DC-F9X : 2 January 2021), Harry M Dingly in entry for Nelson J Dingly, 1870.

• 1880 Census:

"United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MF3X-3XG : 14 August 2017), Henry M Dingley in household of Nelson Dingley Jr, Lewiston, Androscoggin, Maine, United States; citing enumeration district ED 9, sheet 196B, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), FHL microfilm 1,254,475.