Parley Phylander Dimmick (1833 - 1884)

Born 29 Aug 1833 in Claridon, Geauga, Ohio, United States

Ancestors

Husband of Aneliza (Dimock) Dimmick — married 11 Jan 1858 in Geauga, Ohio, United States

Descendants

Died 24 Jan 1884 at age 50 in Claridon, Geauga, Ohio, United States

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Biography

Parley was born in 1833. He passed away in 1884.

Books

Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio

Orlando A.Dimmick, an old citizen of Chardon township, and an honored member of the medical fraternity in Geauga county, is the subject of the following biographical sketch. He was born in Claridon township, Geauga county, Ohio, July 28, 1837, a son of Asa Dimmick, a native of Tolland, Connecticut, and grandson of William Dimmick, also of Tolland, Connecticut, of English descent. The latter was a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and removed to Geauga county, Ohio, in 1832, preaching throughout this section until his death, at the age of seventy-six years. Asa Dimmick was married in Connecticut, and in 1832 came to Geauga county, settling in Claridon township, on land which he developed into a good farm, the same consisting of 127 acres. He died at the age of 84 years. He married Mary Alger of Connecticut, and they had a family of five children, three of whom grew to maturity: Mary died as age of seventeen years, of small-pox; Lorena died in infancy; Asa also died in childhood; Parley P. died at the age of fifty-two years; he left two sons, Gordon and Dan, agents for the Northwestern Life Insurance Company of Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Dr. Dimmick is the only surviving child. The mother died at the age of twenty-seven years. ^[1]

Sources

Census

"United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MXQS-W9C : 12 April 2016), Parley Dimick in household of Asa Dimick, Claridon, Geauga, Ohio, United States; citing family 71, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).

"United States Census, 1870", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M627-PM9 : 14 June 2019), Parley P Dimmick in entry for Asa Dimmick, 1870.

Death

Find A Grave: Memorial #52873906

1. ↑ Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio: Embracing the Counties of Ashtabula, Geauga and Lake. Containing Portraits of All the Presidents of the United States, with a Biography of Each, Together with Portraits and Biographies of Joshua R. Giddings, Benjamin F. Wade, and a Large Number of the Early Settlers and Representative Families of To-day, Lewis Publishing Company, 1893, pages 785-786, https://books.google.com/books?id=c5SQWU7LOm4C&pg=PA785