Dr. William Walters Dale, M.D. and Sarah Martin

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Husband Dr. William Walters Dale, M.D. ^{1 2}

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            AKA: Dr. William Walter Dale 3 4
           Born: 15 Nov 1817 - Lancaster, Lancaster Co, PA 4
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           Died: 25 Feb 1891 4 5
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         Father: Col. Samuel Futhey Dale (1773-1842) 6 7 8 9
         Mother: Eliza Gundaker (1787-1830) 4 10

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       Marriage: 1 Jun 1841 11

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Wife Sarah Martin ¹¹

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         Father: James Martin (      -      ) 11
         Mother: Elizabeth Basehore (      -      ) 11

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Children

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1 F Elizabeth Gundaker Dale ¹¹

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         Spouse: E. P. Imhoff (      -      ) 11

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2 F Annie J. Dale ¹¹

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         Spouse: H. P. Cannon (      -      ) 11

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3 F Kate C. Dale ¹¹

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4 M W. James Dale ¹¹

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         Spouse: Annie Rhey (      -      ) 11

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General Notes: Husband - Dr. William Walters Dale, M.D.

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He was educated in the public schools, in the Lancaster County Academy, and Franklin College. With this preliminary training he began the study of medicine with Dr. Kerfoot, of Lancaster, and then entered Jefferson Medical College, of Philadelphia, from which institution he graduated in 1838. After his graduation he located at Millersville, Lancaster County, but soon left there to come to Mechanicsburg, Cumberland County, where he and his brother James purchased a drug store. There he practiced medicine for several years, and assisted his brother in the management of the drug store. He next moved to Turbutville, Northumberland County, and for a short time practiced there. From Turbutville he returned to Cumberland County, and for several years was located at New Kingstown, from which place he in 1847 removed to Carlisle, where he continued to practice until his death.
As a practitioner Dr. Dale was highly successful and popular, and was the only physician through the successive generations of some families at Carlisle, down to the close of his long professional career. He had the confidence and respect of his entire community, and his brethren of the profession entertained for him the same high regard. He was one of the organizers of the Cumberland County Medical Society, and twice its president. He was also a member of the Inter-State Medical Society, embracing Southern Pennsylvania and Northern Maryland, and twice its vice-president. During the Civil war he was assistant examining surgeon, and after the war long a member of the pension board for Cumberland county, and was one of the most widely known physicians of central Pennsylvania.
As a business man Dr. Dale likewise ranked high. For thirty years he was a director of the Carlisle Deposit Bank, and at the time of his death its vice-president. He was president of the Carlisle Gas and Water Company; a member of the Board of Directors of the Carlisle Manufacturing Company; a trustee of the Metzger Female College, and active in the promotion of all enterprises that promised to advance the general good of the town. He was a Knight Templar and an Odd Fellow, and far advanced through the chairs of both orders. In religious faith he was a Presbyterian, having united with that Church at Silver Springwhile yet a young man. Upon removing to Carlisle he united with the Second Presbyterian Church, and was a faithful member and earnest supporter of that congregation until his death. He was a man of strong convictions, and had a keen sense of the right, with the courage to align himself with it. but was possessed of a gentle and gracious nature that won the confidence and respect of all with whom he came in contact.

1 —, History of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warners, Beers & Co., 1886), Pg 372.

2 —, Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 68.

3 Franklin Ellis & Samuel Evans, History of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Everts & Peck, 1883), Pg 526.

4 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 510.

5 —, Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 69.

6 Franklin Ellis & Samuel Evans, History of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Everts & Peck, 1883), Pg 525.

7 J. H. Newton, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Columbus, OH: J. A. Caldwell Publishers, 1879), Pg 482.

8 —, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 745.

9 George P. Donehoo, Pennsylvania - A History (NW) (New York, NY; Chicago, IL: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1926), Pg 363.

10 George P. Donehoo, Pennsylvania - A History (NW) (New York, NY; Chicago, IL: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1926), Pg 364.

11 —, Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 70.