John Clayton Dight and Blanche T. Harper

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Husband John Clayton Dight ^{1 2}

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            AKA: J. C. Dwight 3
           Born: 17 Nov 1876 - Sandy Lake, Mercer Co, PA 1 2
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         Father: Rev. John M. Dight (      -1912) 1 2 4
         Mother: Martha M. Rutchey (      -1923) 1 2

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       Marriage: 28 Oct 1899 2

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Wife Blanche T. Harper ^{2 3 5}

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         Father: Cyrus Harper (1839-1922) 6 7 8
         Mother: Elizabeth Dalzell (      -1879) 3 8 9

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Children

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1 F Anna Dight ²

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           Born: 13 Aug 1911 2
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         Status: Twin

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2 F Grace Dight ²

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           Born: 13 Aug 1911 2
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         Status: Twin

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General Notes: Husband - John Clayton Dight

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He attended the public schools in Butler County, Pennsylvania, graduated at Clarion State Normal School, Clarion, class of 1895, and also attended Westminster College. He taught country school two terms and was for three years principal of the high school at Harmony, Butler County, resigning that position to engage in the real estate business, which he followed for several years. He made his home at Mars, Butler County, for a number of years, until the death of his father, and served a term as school director there, being president of the school board the entire time, and was also president of the Butler County School Directors' Association; at the same time he was elected justice of the peace, serving one term. His friends announced his name for National delegate to the Republican convention at Chicago in 1912. He promptly stated he would support Col. Theodore Roosevelt for president if elected. He won in the primary in the Twenty-second Congressional district, Butler and Westmoreland counties, carrying every district but one in his home county, and securing a popular majority of six thousand. At the Chicago convention he was one of the three hundred and forty-four delegates who left the convention and went to another hall, where they asked Colonel Roosevelt to accept the nomination of the Progressive party. In the campaign of 1912 he took an active part, being the manager of the speakers' bureau of the Progressive (Washington) party in Pennsylvania. He had charge of the Legislative Publicity Bureau at Harrisburg during the session of the General Assembly in 1913 and was active in aiding in the passage of a number of progressive laws. In 1914 he became manager and editor of the Brookville Republican, the weekly newspaper having the largest circulation in Jefferson County. Under his management and editorship it increased considerably in circulation.

He was born in Butler County, where he attended the public schools, afterwards graduating at Clarion Normal School with the class of 1895, and then taking an uncompleted course at Westminster College. Identified with newspaper work the larger part of his life, he was special correspondent for two terms of the Pennsylvania State Legislature, and for a year in the National Congress, at Washington, District of Columbia. After two years in the employ of a Philadelphia newspaper, Mr. Dight went to Brookville, as editor of the Brookville "Republican," and he later founded the Brookville "American," of which newspaper he was editor for three years. Removing to Butler, he became manager of the Butler "Citizen," and on April 1, 1922, he bought out the interests of Charles E. Herr in the Butler "County Record" and since that time he has continued to be editor and sole owner of that paper. The "Record" dates back to 1877, when it was known by that title, and in 1888 the present title, Butler "County Record," was given it. A weekly newspaper of eight to twelve pages of six columns, it has a circulation of 3,000. Since taking over the plant, Mr. Dight has greatly increased the circulation, and it is the only Republican newspaper in this county. Mr. Dight maintains a job-printing business as well, where he specializes in legal documents, probably seventy-five per cent of all such work being done at this shop.
Mr. Dight is a Republican in politics, and he was a delegate to the National Convention in 1912 from the Twenty-second District. He has served as Republican county chairman of this county, and as president of the County School Board. He was president of the Butler County Good Roads Commission for four years; secretary and treasurer of the Perry Highway Association; secretary of the Butler County Supervisors' Association; and president of the County Anti-Tuberculosis Association. He was assigned by the Pittsburgh Chamber of Commerce to have charge of road supervision in Western Pennsylvania, and he was the prime mover in founding the Butler Historical Association.
During the World War, Mr. Dight had charge of the "four-minute" speakers of Jefferson County, and received the United States Government certificate for his work. He is a member of many organizations, including Butler County Club and the Sterling Club; and he is a past president of the Lions International Club. For seventeen years he served as an elder of the United Presbyterian Church, and he was assistant clerk of the General Presbyterian Assembly.

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General Notes: Wife - Blanche T. Harper

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from Butler Co, PA

1 —, Jefferson County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Company, 1917), Pg 195.

2 George P. Donehoo, Pennsylvania - A History (SW) (New York, NY; Chicago, IL: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1926), Pg 215.

3 James A. McKee, 20th Century History of Butler and Butler County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1909), Pg 856.

4 —, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 1039.

5 —, Jefferson County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Company, 1917), Pg 196.

6 James A. McKee, 20th Century History of Butler and Butler County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1909), Pg 855.

7 George P. Donehoo, Pennsylvania - A History (SW) (New York, NY; Chicago, IL: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1926), Pg 127, 177.

8 Blanche T. Hartman, Genealogy of the Nesbit, Ross, Porter, Taggart Families of Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh, PA: Privately printed, 1929), Pg 171.

9 George P. Donehoo, Pennsylvania - A History (SW) (New York, NY; Chicago, IL: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1926), Pg 127.