Husband Samuel Dillinger 1 2 3
Born: 28 Oct 1810 - East Huntingdon Twp, Westmoreland Co, PA 2 3 4
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Died: 25 Aug 1889 3 5
Buried: - Mennonite Cemetery, Alverton, Westmoreland Co, PA
Father: Daniel Dillinger (1787-1845/1847) 2 4
Mother: Mary Myers (Abt 1790-1871) 2 4
Marriage: 19 May 1831 1
Wife Sarah Loucks 1 2 3
Born: 29 Nov 1808 - Westmoreland Co, PA 3 4 6
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Died: 19 Aug or 19 Oct 1898 - ? Greensburg, Westmoreland Co, PA 3 7
Buried: - Mennonite Cemetery, Alverton, Westmoreland Co, PA
Father: Peter Loucks (1760-1825) 8 9 10 11
Mother: Anna Overholt (1770-1845) 1 11
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1 F Anna Dillinger 3 12 13
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Spouse: Joseph Hixson (1825-Abt 1911) 2 13 14
2 F Mary Dillinger 2 3 8 15
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Spouse: Abram H. Sherrick (1832- ) 15 16
3 F Catharine Dillinger 2 3 8
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Spouse: Moses Hixson ( - ) 2
4 F Sarah Dillinger 2 3 8 17
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Spouse: Jacob C. Fox ( - ) 2 3 8 17
5 M John L. Dillinger 2 3 8
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Spouse: Mary McIntyre ( - ) 3 8
6 F Elizabeth L. Dillinger 2 3 8
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Spouse: Cyrus T. Hanna ( - ) 2 3 8
7 F Eliza L. Dillinger 2 3 8
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Spouse: A. A. Hasson ( - ) 2 3 8
8 M Daniel L. Dillinger 2 3 8
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9 M Samuel L. Dillinger 2 3 8
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Spouse: Katie Hutchinson ( - ) 2 3 8
General Notes: Husband - Samuel Dillinger
Owing to the fact that it was necessary for him to devote his youthful days to manual labor, his early education was very limited. This deficiency he supplied by diligent study during the spare moments of after-years. His business education was of the very best, and was obtained from the business world by careful study of business men. While he labored diligently to promote his individual interests, he was not unmindful of his duties as a citizen. He always took a proper interest in politics, and held the local offices usually intrusted to business men. The free-school system found in him a true friend and liberal supporter. He always took an active interest in whatever contributed to increase the industries or develop the resources of the country. Benevolent and hospitable, the poor always resorted to him confidently in their time of need. His life was one of usefulness, and command the respect of those who knew him. Even after he had passed the allotted time of three score and ten years, he was still vigorous in health, and enjoyed the results of his years of toil, having committed the management of his large business interests to his sons.
He started a small still on his farm, and in 1852 erected a frame distillery at Old Bethany (West Bethany post-office), to which in 1856 he added a grist-mill, which was operated until 1881, when it was destroyed by fire. He and his two sons, Daniel L. and Samuel, erected a new three-story frame distillery at Bethany Station, and began distilling in March, 1882. The firm of S. Dillinger & Sons manufactured pure rye whiskey, the only rye distillery in operation in the township at that time. It had a capacity for two hundred bushels a day. Its market was Pittsburgh and the East. All its grain was purchased in the West. Mr. Dillinger owned nearly a thousand acres of land in the township, half of which was full of undeveloped coal. They had at Tarr's Station sixty-four coke-ovens, and fifty-one at Hawkeye Station. The former were erected in 1879, and the latter in 1871. The firm did a very extensive business in its distillery, coke-ovens, and flour trade.
During the administration of President Buchanan and prior to that time, he was affiliated with the Whig party. While he was opposed to slavery, he was also opposed to confiscation and the Civil War, believing that slavery would terminate its own existence by the education of the people to the fact that it was wrong, and that this course would at the same time better prepare the slaves for their freedom. In this, like all his other motives, he was conscientious in what he believed, and naturally united with the Democratic party. He was never an aspirant for political office.