William Henry Harrison Dumars and Mrs. Nellie M. Lyon

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Husband William Henry Harrison Dumars ¹

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           Born: 24 Dec 1840 - Mercer Co, PA 2
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         Father: Thomas S. Dumars (1810-      ) 3
         Mother: Hannah A. Limber (      -      ) 3

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       Marriage: 27 Mar 1876 2

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Wife Mrs. Nellie M. Lyon ²

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General Notes: Husband - William Henry Harrison Dumars

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He was born a few miles east of Greenville, Mercer County, PA, and was named in honor of the then Presi­dent-elect, William Henry Harrison. In 1854 he commenced learning the printing trade in the office of Finch & Weir, then publishing the only paper in Greenville, and worked three years in that office. In 1858 he entered Illinois College, at Jacksonville, spending four years in that institution, and during vacations worked at his trade and on the farm. He did editorial work on the Jacksonville Journal, and in 1860-61 published the Jacksonville Review, at the same time contributing to the Continental Monthly, St. Louis Democrat and other publications. In 1862 he returned to Greenville, and August 11 enlisted in Company G, One Hundred and Forty-fifth Pennsyl­vania Volunteers, and served till the regiment was mustered out, May 31, 1865. He was a member of the G. A. R., and, though a sufferer from rheuma­tism contracted in the army, he never applied for a pension. After the war he was appointed to a clerkship in the war department at Wash­ington, which he resigned, in 1867, to take an interest in the Greenville Argus. He soon sold out to his partner, and took a situation on the Erie Dispatch, filling consecutively the positions of compositor, night editor and managing editor on that paper. Returning to Greenville he became one of the founders of the Advance, later the Advance Argus. In 1882 he purchased the Shenango Valley News, and thereafter was the editor and owner of that paper. The News was one of the most vigor­ous supporters of the Republican party and its editor always held the same political faith since the birth of that organization. Both he and his wife were members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. [HMC 1888, 787]

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General Notes: Wife - Mrs. Nellie M. Lyon

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She was Mr. Dumar's business, as well his domestic, partner. She was a practical printer, and fully competent to take charge of the newspaper office.

1 —, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 786, 787.

2 —, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 787.

3 —, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 786.