Dillin, C. D.

DILLIN

Posted By: Joyce Hickman (email)
Date: 10/1/2008 at 13:52:26

C. D. Dillin

(From the 1883 History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, by J. H. Keatley, p.184, Neola Twp.)
C. D. Dillin, lumber, grain and coal merchant, Neola, was born in Knox County, Ohio, in 1842. His father, Israel Dillin, was born in Pennsylvania about 1791, and moved to Ohio at an early date. He was engaged in farming and merchandising, and also bought horses and drove them across the Alleghany Mountains to New York City. He emigrated from Ohio to Iowa in 1850, and settled at Marengo, Iowa Co., Iowa, where he engaged in farming until he went to California, where he died in 1856. Subject's mother, Mary (Hall) Dillin, was born in Pennsylvania in 1795. She moved from Pennsylvania to Ohio with her husband, and from there to Iowa, where she died in 1851. Subject was educated in the common schools of Iowa. At the age of fifteen years, he went to Council Bluffs, Iowa, and was clerk in a drug store at Crescent City, for Johnson & Blake. In the spring of 1859, he went to Marengo; attended school and clerked till the opening of the war, then he enlisted in the Seventh Iowa Infantry; was first private, then Corporal, then First Lieutenant, then Captain. He served four years, nineteen months of which were spent as follows: Nine months in Libby Prison, four at Macon, two in Charleston and four in Columbia. On returning from the army in the fall of 1865, Mr. Dillin married Miss Lucy Crenshaw. After this, he served two years as Deputy Treasurer in Iowa County, Iowa, and then one year was spent looking after milling interests; then four about five years, he was Deputy Clerk of Iowa County, Iowa. He moved to Pottawattamie County in 1873, located where he is now, and started the leading grain, lumber and coal business of Neola. Mrs. Dillin was born in April, 1845, in Jackson County, State of Indiana. Her father, Josephus Crenshaw, was born in 1811, in Indiana, and now lives at Marengo, Iowa. Her mother, Nancy L. (Reddick) Crenshaw, died when Mrs. Millin was but two years old. Mr. and Mrs. Dillin have five children - Joseph I., John W., Cora B., Nellie R. and Hugo. Mr. Dillin owns a farm of 135 acres, bordering on the south edge of the town of Neola and an elevator with a capacity of 10,000 bushels. Mr. Dillin is a Republican.