Joseph Dieringer Plumer and Frances Elizabeth Dallas

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Husband Joseph Dieringer Plumer ^{1 2}

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           Born: 29 Dec 1882 - Franklin, Venango Co, PA 2
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         Father: Ralph Clapp Plumer (1849-Aft 1919) 1
         Mother: Margaret Dieringer (      -      ) 1

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       Marriage: 17 Sep 1906 - Franklin, Venango Co, PA 3

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Wife Frances Elizabeth Dallas ³

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         Father: Wilbur C. Dallas (      -      ) 3
         Mother: Henriette E. [Unk] (      -      ) 3

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Children

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1 M Joseph Dallas Plumer ³

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           Born: 12 Feb 1912 3
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2 M Ralph Frampton Plumer ³

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           Born: 20 Oct 1919 3
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3 F Frances Elizabeth Plumer ³

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           Born: 19 Jul 1921 3
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General Notes: Husband - Joseph Dieringer Plumer

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Franklin schools provided him with his early formal education, and after completing his high school studies he became a student at the Miller Night School of Accounting. Accepting a position as messenger in the collection department of the First National Bank of Franklin, which was then controlled by the Plumer family, Mr. Plumer started work there on October 11, 1898. For a decade he continued with that institution, serving as bookkeeper and teller. Then, in 1908, he left the bank to take up a homestead in Oregon, where he resided for a year and a half. He purchased the quarter section, containing 150 acres, from the United States Government after a time. Upon leaving the homestead, Mr. Plumer removed to Portland, Oregon, where he took work as auditor for a hotel company, operating three hotels and a summer resort and so continuing until 1915. In that year he returned to Pennsylvania to take a position as assistant cashier of the Clarion County National Bank, of Knox, Pennsylvania. He remained there for ten years, resigning in 1925 and purchasing an interest, with his brothers, in a wholesale tobacco business in Franklin.
Interested in public affairs from an early period in his career, Mr. Plumer was a consistent Democrat, acting as his party's county chairman and in several public offices. In Knox he was a member of the Borough Council, and afterward he became inheritance tax appraiser and investigator for the State of Pennsylvania in Venango County. On October 21, 1937, he was appointed postmaster of Franklin. In addition to his other activities, Mr. Plumer was a member of the Franklin Kiwanis Club, the Franklin Club, the Washington Masonic Club and the Elks' Club. In the Free and Accepted Masons he was affiliated with Edenburg Lodge, No. 550, of Knox; Venango Chapter, No. 211, of Royal Arch Masons, of Franklin, and Venango Lodge of Perfection, at Oil City. He was also a member of Franklin Lodge, No. 110, of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. He was active in St. John's Protestant Episcopal Church, in Franklin, where he was a member of the vestry.

1 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 698.

2 Joseph Riesenman, Jr., History of Northwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. III (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., Inc., 1943), Pg 391.

3 Joseph Riesenman, Jr., History of Northwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. III (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., Inc., 1943), Pg 392.