Biographical Details
Date of Birth: April 27, 1812
Birth Location: Cumberland County, PA, USA
Graduation Year(s): 1837
Degree(s) Earned: Bachelors
Date of Death: December 15, 1871
Death Location: Providence, IL, USA
John Dale
Life Experience
John Dale was educated in Oxford, Ohio. Helater became a minister of the Gospel. He primarily ministered in the towns of Knightstown, Kokomo, and Tipton in Indiana; Pleasant Hill in Virginia; and Fairbury and Providence in Illinois. In 1848, he helped organize the women-only Knightstown Academy. He also organized a Presbyterian church in the town of Virginia in Illinois, serving as its pastor until 1862 when, at age fifty, he entered the Union Army. During the Civil War, he was chaplain of the 75th Indiana Volunteers, who participated in the battles of Chattanooga and Mission Ridge, Tennessee.
Marriage and Family
In 1864, Dale and his wife had their seventh child, born twenty-five years after their first child. Dale died in December of 1871. His wife, Nancy, died three days later.
References
- Wylie
- Findagrave.com
- archive.org/stream/maxwellhistoryge00hous/
- Indiana Magazine of History December 1914 (Vol. 10 #4)
- Indiana University Alumni Quarterly 1920 (#7)
- WPA (1941) Inventory of the County Archives of Illinois 9: Cass County