- EDWARD L. DIMOCK was born in Geneses Co., N.Y., Oct. 13,
1819; son of Horatio and
- Teresa Maria DIMOCK, both natives of Tolland Co., Conn.;
the family is of Scotch descent, some five or six generations
since; the subject of this sketch lived in Genesee Co., N.Y.,
on a farm until the age of 13; in his 14th year, he went to Rochester
and clerked for two years in a dry-goods store in that city;
he then removed to Batavia, N.Y., where he remained about ten
years; then he went to Buffalo, N.Y., where he was engaged two
years in a like capacity, and, having saved a little money, he
resolved to push farther west; accordingly, in June, 1845, he
removed to Janesville, Wis.; he engaged in mercantile business
here and continued in it for six years, when he turned his attention
to banking and continued in that business until September, 1857;
in 1858, he turned his attention to the business of insurance,
and is still conducting the business with success; in the spring
of 1854, he was elected Alderman of the Second Ward of the city
of Janesville, and, in the spring of 1855, was elected Mayor,
serving one term, and subsequently held other city offices; he
was for five years a director in the Milwaukee & Mississippi
(now the C., M. & St. P.) Railroad Company; he was also a
stockholder, and for four years, ending with 1861, lessee of
the Janesville Gas Works, in connection with Timothy JACKMAN;
he was a charter member [and] first Secretary of the Northwestern
Mutual Life insurance Company, of Milwaukee; he is a public-spirited
man, and being one of the early settlers of Janesville, has taken
a deep interest and contributed in no small degree to its growth
and development; at the twenty-fifth anniversary of his marriage,
which was celebrated in 1876, a friend, who made the formal presentation
of the gifts bestowed, said: "In the upbuilding of this
beautiful little city of the prairie, it is not too much to say
that you have done your full share; and when its history is written,
your name will occupy an honorable and conspicuous place upon
its pages." Mr. DIMOCK was married, Oct. 30, 1851, to Miss
Emma C. HAUKS, daughter of Col. L. B. HAUKS, for many years a
prominent business man of Hartford, Conn.; they have had five
children, for of whom died in infancy, leaving an only daughter
surviving - Mary Emma.
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- Taken from "The History of Rock County, Wis."
(c)1879, p. 703.
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- Courtesy of Carol
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