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Ditmars, John A.
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FIRST: John
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MID: A.
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| GENDER: M
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| BORN: 25 Dec 1858
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DIED: 4 Feb 1901
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OCCUPATION: Steamboatman
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| BIRTH PLACE: Oregon
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| DEATH PLACE: Oregon
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NOTES:
1860 OR CENSUS - J. A. Ditmars, age 1, b. Oregon, is enumerated with A. Ditmars, age 39, occupation farmer, b. New Jersey, and Nancy Ditmars, age 33, b. Pennsylvania, along with Mary, age 12, b. Ohio, Emma, age 9, b. Ohio, H., age 7, b. Ohio, W. H., age 5, b. Oregon. Also enumerated with the family is Jas. Thompson, age 24, occupation laborer, b. Pennsylvania, and R. Green, age 38, occupation laborer, b. Ireland.
1880 OR CENSUS - John Ditmars, age 21, b. Oregon, is enumerated with Abraham Ditmars, age 58, farmer, b. New Jersey, and Nancy, age 53, b. Pennsylvania, along with Ida, age 16, b. Oregon, Margaret, age 13, b. Oregon, Thomas, age 10, b. Oregon. Also enumerated with the family is Joe Sing, identified as servant, age 25, farm laborer, b. China.
1895 CENSUS - John Ditmar [sic], b. Oregon, 5'10", 140#, light, laborer, Prot., voter, male, age 30.
NEWSPAPER ARTICLE:
John Ditmar, of Fairfield, was committed to the insane asylum Monday. Ditmar's condition is due to worriment over business affairs. He thinks himself a millionaire and has various wild schemes for making money, among which is to erect and operate a large number of sawmills along the banks of the Willamette river. He is a farmer, 38 years of age and married.
Woodburn Independent, 18 Nov 1897
1900 OR CENSUS - John Ditmars, age 40, b. Dec 1859 in Oregon, married 3 years, occupation steamboatsman, is enumerated at OSIA.
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INSCRIPTION:
John A. Ditmars
Died Feb. 4, 1901
Aged 42 ys 1 mo 10 ds
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SOURCES:
Saucy Survey & Photographs
1860 OR CENSUS (Marion Co., Fairfield Pct., pg 289)
1880 OR CENSUS (Marion Co., Fairfield, ED 83, pg 80C)
1895 OR CENSUS, WVGS Abstract 2001 (Marion Co. Vol. II, pg 174)
WI 18 Nov 1897
1900 OR CENSUS (Marion Co., East Salem Pct., ED 220, pg 3)
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