John Scott Dilworth and Mary Olivia Parry
Husband John Scott Dilworth 1
AKA: Daniel Scott Dilworth 2 Born: 12 Sep 1819 - Coal Hill (later Mt. Washington), Allegheny Co, PA 2 Christened: Died: 8 Jan 1877 2 Buried:
Father: William Dilworth, Sr. (1791-1871) 3 4 Mother: Elizabeth Scott (1797-1883) 2 3
Marriage: 15 Dec 1841 - Cincinnati, Hamilton Co, OH 2
Wife Mary Olivia Parry 2
Born: 16 Oct 1820 - Deer Creek, Ross Twp, Allegheny Co, PA 5 Christened: Died: 19 Sep 1903 5 Buried:
Father: Henry Parry (1761-1847) 5 6 Mother: Sarah Cadwalader (1778-1842) 5 6
Children
1 F Agnes Eliza Dilworth 5
Born: 17 Sep 1842 5 Christened: Died: 28 Jun 1845 5 Buried:Spouse: Did Not Marry
2 M William Parry Dilworth 5
Born: 10 Mar 1844 - Allegheny, Allegheny Co, PA 5 Christened: Died: 19 Jan 1906 - Allegheny, Allegheny Co, PA 5 Buried:Spouse: Did Not Marry
3 F Mary Laura Dilworth 7
Born: 2 Mar 1846 7 Christened: Died: 14 Mar 1850 7 Buried:Spouse: Did Not Marry
4 M Neville Bausman Dilworth 7
Born: 19 Nov 1848 7 Christened: Died: Buried:Spouse: Jessie Black ( - ) 7 Marr: 28 Dec 1899 7
5 M James Reese Dilworth 7
Born: 26 Sep 1850 7 Christened: Died: 4 Apr 1853 7 Buried:Spouse: Did Not Marry
6 M DeWitt Dilworth 7
Born: 27 Oct 1853 7 Christened: Died: Aft 1907 Buried:Spouse: Florence Coe ( - ) 7 Marr: 6 Mar 1877 - Philadelphia, PA 7
7 M Linford Lardner Dilworth 7
Born: 14 Oct 1855 - Oakland, Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co, PA 7 Christened: Died: 3 Dec 1906 - Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co, PA 7 Buried:Spouse: Did Not Marry
8 M Harry Parry Dilworth 7
Born: 11 Sep 1857 7 Christened: Died: Buried:Spouse: Annie Stephenson ( - ) 7 Marr: 20 Jun 1899 7
9 M John Cadwalader Dilworth 7
Born: 6 Jul 1860 - Oakland, Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co, PA 7 Christened: Died: Buried:Spouse: Julia W. Creighton ( -1892) 8 Marr: 12 Oct 1886 - Philadelphia, PA 7Spouse: Elizabeth Shryock Gill ( - ) 7 Marr: 4 Jan 1899 - Meadville, Crawford Co, PA 7
10 M George Morgan Dilworth 7
Born: 18 Aug 1863 7 Christened: Died: Buried:Spouse: Carrie S. Hays ( - ) 7 Marr: 3 Apr 1905 7
General Notes: Husband - John Scott Dilworth
He was educated in the private schools of Mount Washington (now in the limits of Pittsburgh), Pennsylvania, and upon arriving at man's estate clerked for the firm of Dilworth & Colter, who were engaged in the contracting business, and during that time built the Monongahela river bridge and the court house of Allegheny County, which was erected in 1834. He later built a powder magazine on the property of his father, at Mount Washington, where he stored powder, he being agent for the Hazard Powder Company. Having been a large stockholder in the various steamboats plying the rivers, he became clerk on one running between Pittsburgh and Cincinnati. In the early portion of the nineteenth century he established the wholesale grocery house of Williams & Dilworth, which was located on Wood street. This firm later became Schriver & Dilworth, and still later John S. Dilworth & Company, he taking into partnership his sons, Neville B. and William P., and later his son DeWitt. In 1871 the business was sold and was carried on by Dilworth Brothers Company.
While engaged in the business just mentioned, he also embarked in the oil business, becoming owner of oil and coal lands in Ohio. He owned the Mount Nebo coal mine and Lowellville iron furnace at Lowellville, Ohio, and had many oil wells in that state, which proved very valuable. Most of the winter months he spent in the south, generally in Louisiana, where he would purchase sugar crops of plantation owners and ship the product to Pittsburgh and New York, both before and after the Civil war. In 1868 he bought the famous Magnolia Grove plantation in Louisiana, and conducted it very successfully until 1871, when he sold it. He traveled extensively both in America and abroad, generally for the benefit of his health and for pleasure. He was a good conversationalist, and an excellent story teller. He was a director in the Pittsburg Bank of Savings and the Citizens' National and other banks. As the result of his many business enterprises he accumulated a goodly fortune.
General Notes: Wife - Mary Olivia Parry
She was born at Rich Hills plantation, Deer Creek, Ross township, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.
1 John W. Jordan, LL.D, A Century and a Half of Pittsburg and Her People, Vol. III (New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1908), Pg 46.
2 John W. Jordan, LL.D, A Century and a Half of Pittsburg and Her People, Vol. III (New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1908), Pg 44.
3 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 421.
4 John W. Jordan, LL.D, A Century and a Half of Pittsburg and Her People, Vol. III (New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1908), Pg 43.
5 John W. Jordan, LL.D, A Century and a Half of Pittsburg and Her People, Vol. III (New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1908), Pg 47.
6 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 227.
7 John W. Jordan, LL.D, A Century and a Half of Pittsburg and Her People, Vol. III (New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1908), Pg 48.
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John W. Jordan, LL.D, A Century and a Half of Pittsburg and Her People, Vol. III (New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1908), Pg 48, 77.
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