Husband Charles Dinsmoor 1 2
Born: 19 Sep 1834 - Alabama Center, Genesee Co, NY 2 3
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Father: George F. Dinsmoor (1794-1868) 2 3
Mother: Catharine Harper (Abt 1806-1872) 2 3
Marriage: Oct 1861 4
Wife Elizabeth C. Morrison 4 5
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Father: Abijah Morrison (1806-1869/1871) 5 6
Mother: Euphemia J. Deming (1823-1878) 5 7
Children
1 F Imogen G. Dinsmoor 4 8
Born: 17 Oct 1867 4
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Spouse: Charles Herbert Morse ( - ) 8
2 M Loten A. Dinsmoor 4
Born: 25 Jan 1870 4
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3 M Harry Dinsmoor 4
Born: Aug 1873 4
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Died: Mar 1874 4
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Spouse: Did Not Marry
4 M Frederick Dinsmoor 4
Born: 13 Jan 1875 4
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Spouse: Helma Peterson ( - ) 8
General Notes: Husband - Charles Dinsmoor
He received a fair education, though it was obtained against great disadvantages and under circumstances of peculiar hardship. He attended the common schools in Elk township, Warren County, Pennsylvania, for a time, but very irregularly, owing to his services being required in the support of a large family in poor circumstances. After he left home in 1850 he became, through his own exertions, successively a student at the academies at Warren, Smethport, and Coudersport, Pennsylvania, and Randolph, New York. He was engaged in the printing business at Smethport, Pennsylvania, Corning, New York, Coudersport, Pennsylvania, Randolph, New York, and Warren, Pennsylvania, in connection with teaching and attending school, for about eleven years, during the last three of which he was editor of the Warren Ledger. During the years 1856 and 1857 he attended the Randolph Academy one year, and read law in the office of Weeden & Henderson, attorneys of that place, six months. In 1858 he came to Warren, and continued his law studies under B. W. Lacy. He was admitted to the bar of Warren county in September, 1859. In 1860 he was appointed assistant United States marshal, and took the census of the northern half of Warren County. In February, 1861, he was elected justice of the peace for Warren borough, and was successively re-elected for fifteen years, practicing law in the courts in the mean time. He retired from the office of justice voluntarily in 1876, and never thereafter held any office of his seeking. He was elected to many positions in the borough government, from town clerk to chief burgess. In 1878 he was elected unanimously to the office of school director, and was continuously in that position for more than ten years. No man, probably, contributed more in that position to bring about the high condition of the schools of Warren than Mr. Dinsmoor. From the beginning he took a deep interest in the association that became known as the Struthers Library Association, and was for several years its treasurer and a member of its Board of Control. Beginning in 1868 he was connected with the order of Odd Fellows, and was a grand master of Warren Lodge No. 339. Politically, he was a Democrat, of very decided opinions. He did, at times, take an active part in politics, and, as chairman of the Democratic County Committee, led the party of the county in the only two successful contests for the office of member of Congress for that district in more than thirty years.
Mr. Dinsmoor was, as a lawyer, engaged in the practice of his profession in Warren and several adjoining counties, and in the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, and the United States Circuit and District Courts. His abilities marked him as a man peculiarly adapted to the functions of referee and master, and his legal opinions, delivered in those positions, are quite numerous in the Reports of the state. [HWC 1887, 650]