Husband Samuel Futhey Dale 1 2 3 4
Born: 7 Mar 1816 - Lancaster, Lancaster Co, PA 3 5
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Died: 2 Jun 1876 5 6
Buried: - Franklin Cemetery, Franklin, Venango Co, PA 5
Father: Col. Samuel Futhey Dale (1773-1842) 7 8 9 10
Mother: Eliza Gundaker (1787-1830) 4 11
Marriage: 8 Oct 1840 12
• Business: Venango Mills: near Franklin, Venango Co, PA.
Wife Harriet Eliza McClelland 2 4 13 14
Born: 19 Nov 1816 15
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Died: 4 Jun 1901 15
Buried: 6 Jun 1901 - Franklin Cemetery, Franklin, Venango Co, PA 16
Father: George McClelland (1780-1834) 2 6 17 18
Mother: Agnes Seaton (Abt 1780-1842) 2 6 18 19
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1 F Agnes Clementina Dale 6 15
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Died: 2 Jun 1884 - Boulder, Boulder Co, CO 15
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Spouse: Rev. Robert P. Gibson ( - ) 6
2 F Leah Jane Dale 6 20 21
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Spouse: Col. Lewis Henry Fassett (1832-1911) 20 21 22
Marr: 27 May 1880 23
3 M Samuel Gundaker Dale 6 15
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4 F Eliza Elvira Dale 6 15
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Spouse: Rev. Edwin Middleton ( - ) 6 15
5 F Anna Margaret Dale 6 15
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Spouse: Thomas Alexander ( - ) 24
Marr: 1888 - ? Venango Co, PA
6 M William Walter Dale 4 6 15
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Died: 26 Aug 1925 - Denver, CO 4
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General Notes: Husband - Samuel Futhey Dale
His boyhood was spent in the city of Lancaster, Pennsylvania. In May, 1834, he went west to look after lands owned by his father in Venango and adjoining counties, and this led to his permanent settlement in Franklin. Although but little over eighteen years of age at the time of his arrival he soon identified himself with the interests of the town, and within a few years thereafter became a prominent figure in the business enterprises of the time and place. Among his early ventures was the establishment of a line of stages between Erie and Pittsburgh at a time when such an enterprise was relatively as necessary to the prosperity of the country and the convenience of the public as a railway between the same points became at a later period. He next engaged in the manufacture of pig iron at Franklin furnace and in operating a forge, and later-from 1838 until 1845-in the manufacture of pig iron at Buchanan furnace. In 1843 he became associated with the firm of Nock, Dangerfield & Company, in a rolling mill and a nail mill in what is now the Third ward of Franklin and operated them until the discovery of richer ores elsewhere and other causes rendered the manufacture of iron in Venango County un-profitable. In 1857 in connection with the late Orris Hall of Warren, he built the flouring mills at the mouth of French creek known as the Venango mills and operated them several years. Of local enterprises of the more public character there were few, if any, in which he did not take a prominent part. Among those in which he was the leading spirit may be mentioned the erection of the bridges over French creek at Thirteenth street, and over the Allegheny river at the foot of Eighth street after the first structures erected mainly by the state were destroyed. He took an active part in securing the completion of the Jamestown and Franklin railroad, after work upon it had ceased upon its construction as far east as Stoneboro, and to that end became a subscriber to its stock and bonds; and was one of four gentle-men, who, in 1861, in order to secure the construction of the railroad from Meadville to Franklin, became bound to pay for the right of way upon con-dition that that road should be completed before the completion of the then projected road from Corry to Titusville. He was also one of the promoters and directors of the Franklin and Oil Creek turnpike, of the Venango Water Company, and of the First National Bank of Franklin.
He was not merely an enterprising business man of quick perceptions and great energy, as this brief sketch sufficiently indicates. He was a useful and exemplary citizen in all else that these words imply. He possessed strong convictions upon all subjects which are of common concern, and exemplified those convictions in his every day life-a life which was singularly free from those faults of the grosser sort which mar many otherwise strong char-acters. Of his conversation it can be safely affirmed that it was always and everywhere fit for the home circle, and this not because he was cool and de-liberate, for he was the reverse, but because the fountain whence the words came, often unbidden, was pure. A consistent member of the Presbyterian church, he entered into all of its activities with the same zeal and spirit of liberality that he displayed in business circles, and when the time came for setting his house in order he made provision in his will for relieving the wants of a greatly neglected class of its membership after he should be gone, in much the same delicate way that characterized all of his unostentatious alms-giving during life. But his charities were not circumscribed by denom-inational lines. With the provision for members of the church of his choice is blended another for others like circumstanced outside of its pale, and so long as faithful trustees shall be found to administer the fund so provided, this last act of his life will testify to coming generations of that catholic spirit and kindliness of heart which prompted it. [HVC 1890, 747]