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Title: A history of Kentucky and Kentuckians; the leaders and representative men in commerce, industry and modern activities
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Johnson, E. Polk, 1844- Lewis Publishing Company
Subjects: Kentucky -- History Kentucky -- Biography
Publisher: Chicago, Lewis Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Dr. NEHEMIAH CLIFFORD DILLE, who was
summoned to the life eternal on the evenmg
of Thursday the 30th day of December, 1880,
was a physician and surgeon of note in Harri-
son county, Kentucky, and he was also a man
of broad human sympathy and sterling integrity
of character. He was born in Euclid, Cuyahoga
county. Ohio, near the City of Cleveland, on
the 2ist of May, 1819, and was a son of Cal-
vin Dille. whose birth occurred in Airginia, on
the nth day of April. 1785, and who was
summoned to eternal rest on the 31st of May,
1875. Calvin Dille was twice married, his first
union being to Naomi Hendershot. who was
likewise a Virginian by birth; she was born
August 15, 1784, and died September 16, 1830.
This marriage was prolific of eight children,
all of whom are now deceased, the subject of
this review having been the fourth born.
For his second wife Calvin Dille wedded
Sarah vS. Avery, who was born October 30,
1831. and who passed away October 21. 1861,
to the latter union were born two children, one
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HISTORY OF KENTUCKY AND KENTUCKIANS 1437
of whom is now living, Avery B., a prominent
farmer and a man who was largely influential
in having the Agricultural Industrial Colony
established at Starksville, Mississippi, where
he has long maintained his home. David, the
paternal grandfather of Dr. Dille, was born in
Virginia, in 1773, and in 1803 he removed with
his family of six children, of whom Calvin and
dhis twin brother Luther, were the third in
order of birth, to what is now Euclid township,
from Belmont county, Ohio, that section be-
ing known then, as now, as Dille's Bottoms.
Calvin Dille removed to near Cleveland, Ohio,
when that city was a mere village. The name
Dille is French, and the original progenitor of
the family in America came from France to
the Colony of Virginia, about the year 17—-.
When a small boy Dr. Nehemiah C. Dille
went to West Virginia, where he resided in
the home of an uncle for a number of years.
He returned to the paternal homestead on the

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