Ed. Dillingham    

ED. DILLINGHAM, of the firm of Dillingham & Fisher, fruits, canned goods and oysters, wholesale and retail, corner Center and South streets, Corry, was born in Boston, Mass., and is a son of the Rev. W. Dillingham, of the First Baptist Church Our subject was educated in Amsterdam, N.Y., where he lived about six years. He spent one year teaching, and was bookkeeper for A. B. Long, retail grocer, Boston. Subsequently he spent three or four years in Corry as salesman with Nathaniel Stone, Cross & Case, and Sullivan & Jones. He engaged in business for himself in November, 1881, taking a third interest in the firm of Conner, White & Dillingham, and since September, 1882, as above. Mr. Dillingham was secretly united in marriage, April 14, 1882, with Viola L., daughter of John Beebe, of Corry, Penn. After their marriage they remained in their respective homes for a year, but are now happily united. This clandestine match was the source of much sensational newspaper notice at the time.

History of Erie County, Pa Containing a History of the County: Its Townships, Towns, Villages, Schools, Churches, Industries, Etc.: Portraits of the Early Settlers and Prominent Men; Biographies; etc., etc. Chicago: Warner, Beers & Co., 1884. Read this book online More Erie County History Books   Search Hundreds of 1880s-1890s Pennsylvania County History Books for biographies and historical information on your ancestors.  View the book page images on line and print them out for your genealogy file!  Free Access to the old history books - plus birth & death records, census images and ALL other records at ancestry.com.