Rev. Josiah Dillon and Louisa Virginia Laidley

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Husband Rev. Josiah Dillon ^{1 2}

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           Born: 7 Oct 1822 - Guernsey Co, OH 2 3
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         Father: Samuel Dillon (      -      ) 3
         Mother: Vashti Barton (      -      ) 3

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       Marriage: 5 Feb 1862 5

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   Other Spouse: Sarah Watson (1822-1858/1859) 4 6 - 10 Sep 1849 - Middletown, Allegheny Co, PA 5

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Wife Louisa Virginia Laidley ^{4 5}

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           Born:  - West Virginia
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   Other Spouse: [Unk] Burns (      -      ) 4 5

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Children

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1 F Sarah Dillon ^{4 5}

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         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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2 M Robert Dillon ^{4 5}

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3 F Irene Dillon ^{4 5}

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4 M Henry Harmon Dillon ⁵

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General Notes: Husband - Rev. Josiah Dillon

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In 1828 his parents removed the family to Wheeling, West Virginia. He first attended an academy in Parkersburg, afterward a classical academy in Wheeling. He was received into the Pittsburgh conference in June, 1844, and filled various appointments in western Virginia, eastern Ohio and western Pennsylvania until 1853, when ill health compelled him to ask for a superannuated relation. He removed from the town of Beaver, where he was then stationed, to the city of Wheeling, where he was employed as clerk in his brother's establishment, and during the eight years he was with his brother he was interested in steamboats. When he came to Coraopolis (then Middletown), in 1869, he found a few Methodists, to whom he preached five years, and worked with a zeal that resulted in the restoration of the charge to conference, the removal of one church edifice to a more eligible site and the erection of a new church in Shousetown. In 1887 he supplied Chapline Street station in the city of Wheeling.
He served two terms as burgess of Coraopolis. He was interested in various journals, and was the author of several works (theological and metaphysical), as well as numerous sermons and reviews on different subjects. [HAC 1889 ii, ]

He was born at Captina Creek, Belmont County, Ohio, and was educated for the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal church. He was for a number of years a member of the Pittsburgh Conference and ministered for a time to a church at Coraopolis. After the death of his first wife he temporarily abandoned his labors, accepting a situation as bookkeeper in Wheeling. About the time of his second marriage he re-entered the ministry, allying himself with the Pittsburgh and Eastern Ohio Conference. When the two branches separated he adhered to the Pittsburgh Conference, maintaining the connection to the close of his life. While devoted to his ministerial duties he found time for the employment of his pen, and was for a time editor of the Fairmont West Virginia. He was also, at one period, associate editor of the Pittsburgh Advance and a contributor to the Advocate. For some years he was editor and proprietor of the Coraopolis Chronicle.
He maintained to the last his physical and mental vigor, and until two years before his death continued his labors as a preacher.[GPHWP, 903]

1 Editor, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 471, 765.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 903.

3 Editor, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 471.

4 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 904.

5 Editor, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 472.

6 Editor, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 765.