William Parry Dilworth

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Husband William Parry Dilworth ¹

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           Born: 10 Mar 1844 - Allegheny, Allegheny Co, PA 1
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           Died: 19 Jan 1906 - Allegheny, Allegheny Co, PA 1
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         Father: John Scott Dilworth (1819-1877) 2
         Mother: Mary Olivia Parry (1820-1903) 3

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General Notes: Husband - William Parry Dilworth

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His early schooling was obtained in Allegheny and Pittsburgh private and public schools and the Agricultural State College at Bellefonte, Pennsylvania. At the age of eighteen years he left school and enlisted in Company H, One Hundred and Thirty-sixth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, on August 9, 1862, for the term of nine months, with the rank of private, and was mustered out of the United States service at Belle Plain Landing, Virginia, on March 10, 1863, with the rank of corporal. He was enrolled a member of Duquesne Post, No. 259, Department of Pennsylvania, Grand Army of the Republic, on January 8, 1889.
After being mustered out of the service of his country he engaged in buying, selling and shipping oil at Oil City, Pennsylvania. After a few years he sold out his business to Captain J. J. Vandergrift, and entered his father's wholesale grocery firm (John S. Dilworth Company), and through a number of years, by ability and attention, maintained its old-time prestige with extended influence. In later years he was interested in mining and shipping Youghiogheny coal near Scott Haven, Pennsylvania, to the east and west, the corporation bearing his name being largely owned by him. As a friend he was genial and kind and true to old acquaintances, a good story teller, with a retentive memory of old times. He manifested most kindly traits of character in his care and devotion to his widowed mother, and in the advice and guidance of a large family of six brothers, to whom he was guide and mentor through many years. He was a staunch Presbyterian, a member of all the Masonic bodies, a life member of the American Republican Club, and a charter member of the Duquesne Club.

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 47.

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 46.

3 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.