…bringing our past into the future
HEADER Isaac D Doverspike ISAAC D. DOVERSPIKE, deceased, was born Feb. 6, 1842, in Mahoning township, this county, son of Daniel and Margaret (Beck) Doverspike, and died Sept. 16, 1911. A man of large and varied interests, all his affairs were conducted on a liberal basis that came to be regarded as characteristic of him … Read more
HEADER GEORGE BOYD DOVERSPIKE Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â GEORGE BOYD DOVERSPIKE, a general merchant of Oakland, has been proprietor of a store there since 1893, and during this time has become a popular and successful business man. Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â His paternal grandfather was John Doverspike, a native of eastern Pennsylvania, who spent a short time in Butler … Read more
HEADER George W Doverspike GEORGE W. DOVERSPIKE, deceased, whose long years of activity in the banking circles of Kittanning made him one of the most widely known business men of Armstrong county, was one of its native-born citizens. He was born on his father’s farm on Mahoning creek in Mahoning township, March 1, 1884, son … Read more
HEADER Ezra L Doverspike EZRA L. DOVERSPIKE, a successful farmer of Mahoning township, Armstrong county, belongs to one of the first settled families of that section, his paternal grandfather, John T. Doverspike, having settled in what is now Mahoning township in the year 1816. He purchased 240 acres of land, part of which is the … Read more
HEADER Anthony Doverspike ANTHONY DOVERSPIKE, deceased, was a farmer and lumberman in Mahoning and Red Bank townships, this county, throughout his active years, and was one of the most enterprising business men of his section. He was much interested in the building of what is commonly called the Shawmut road through this section, and was … Read more
HEADER John Martin Dosch, Sr. JOHN MARTIN DOSCH, Sr., who has occupied his present home at No. 218 South McKean street, Kittanning, for over fifty years, is a native of Germany, born Nov. 16, 1827. When four years old he was brought by his parents to America. His father dying shortly after the family arrived … Read more
HEADER Edwin L Dively EDWIN L. DIVELY, an attorney at law until recently located at Apollo, was born April 22, 1878, in Altoona, Pa., a son of A. V. and Mollie (Shoenfelt) Dively. The father is a well-known lawyer in active practice at Altoona. The original ancestor of the Dively family in America came from … Read more
HEADER John Dinger JOHN DINGER, a retired farmer, of Oak Ridge, Armstrong county, was born in Red Bank township, this county, May 10, 1844. He is a representative type of those farmers whose steadfastness and energy have done much to make agriculture profitable and worthy. Michael Dinger, his grandfather, was born in the State of … Read more
HEADER Jacob Diehl JACOB DIEHL, retired business man and veteran of the Civil war, Parker�s Landing, Pa., was born January 8, 1842, at Philadelphia, Pa., a son of Jacob and Elizabeth (Feldtinan) Diehl. The parents of Jacob Diehl, of Parker�s Landing, were born in Hesse Darmstadt, Germany, and came to the United States in 1840, … Read more
HEADER John A Dickson JOHN A. DICKSON, sheet roller in the plant of the American Sheet and Tin Plate Company, at Leechburg, Armstrong Co., Pa., was born May 17, 1870, in Indiana county, PA.,, son of Benjamin Dickson, and a grandson of Thomas Dickson. Thomas Dickson spent his life in Indiana county, Pa., where he … Read more