Husband Gen. Mungo M. Dick 1 2 3
AKA: Mingo M. Dick 4
Born: 13 Dec 1821 - Sewickley Twp, Westmoreland Co, PA 2
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Father: Rev. Mungo Dick (1772-1840/1849) 2 3 5 6
Mother: Elizabeth Murry ( -1876) 7
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Other Spouse: Mary Ann Guffey ( - ) 8
Other Spouse: Elizabeth Gaut ( - ) 8
Wife Emma Goehring 8
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General Notes: Husband - Gen. Mungo M. Dick
He attended the subscription schools, after which he engaged in farming and stock-raising and later in the banking business at West Newton, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, being sole owner of the banking house of M. M. Dick at that place. He was quite successful in business and acquired a handsome competency. In politics he was an active republican, was school director of his township almost continuously for nearly forty years and served his county one term (1876-79) as county commissioner, being the first republican that ever served in that capacity in Westmoreland County. Both he and his wife were members of the United Presbyterian church of Sewickley. In the fall of 1885 he was elected to the Pennsylvania Legislature and served with credit.
In the military history of Westmoreland County from 1841 to 1865, Gen. Dick was a prominent actor. In 1843 he became captain of a volunteer company known as the Sewickley artillery, which he commanded for nearly sixteen years. Four commissions as captain of this company were issued to him by the Governor of Pennsylvania at the following dates: June 26, 1843, August 20, 1849; September 9, 1854 and August 20, 1859. His popularity as a company commander led to his election as lieut-enant colonel in the first brigade of the first division of Pennsylvania militia. He was commissioned as lieutenant colonel on June 4, 1849, and on June 20, 1859, he received his commission as brigadier-general of the first brigade of the seventeenth division. His services as a brigade commander recommended him for a higher position and he was elected major-general of the seventeenth division which was composed of the uniformed militia of Westmoreland, Washington, Fayette and Greene. The Civil War came, the militia organization went down and he did not receive his commission as major-general. In the war he raised a cavalry company of one hundred and fifty men but they were not needed.
Among the first to respond to the call of the government for troops was Gen. Dick. He raised a company known as the Sewickley Infantry and was commissioned captain September 1, 1861. This company was placed in the one hundredth Pa. Vols., but was soon transferred to the one hundred and fifth, when Gen. Dick was elected major of the latter regiment and was commissioned as such on October 8, 1861. He took an active part in the Peninsula campaign and was in the front of the stubborn battles of Fair Oaks and the Seven Days fight. Headley, in his war history, says: "Napoleon's veterans never stood firmer under a devastating fire" than the officers and men of the one hundred and fifth regiment in the battle of Fair Oaks.
General Notes: Wife - Emma Goehring
from Allegheny City, Allegheny Co, PA