Tulare County Biographies

SAMUEL DINELEY

Transcribed by Kathy Sedler

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The late Samuel Dineley, born in Worcestershire, England, in 1829, died in 
Visalia, Tulare county, Cal., August 5, 1907. His mother dying when he was quite 
young, his father brought their children to New York city, where later he took a 
second wife. After that some of the children went away and the family was in a 
manner broken up, but Samuel remained in New York city until he was twenty-five 
years old and then crossed the plains to California, where he engaged in mining 
and later in the mercantile business.
About 1855 Mr. Dineley came to Visalia, where he lived out the remainder of his 
allotted years. He was the pioneer lime-maker in Tulare county and set up the 
first limekiln ever seen here. Later for some years he was a successful 
sheep-herder, and after his retirement from that business he long conducted a 
confectionery store on Main street, in Visalia. On April 2, 1861, Samuel Dineley 
was united in marriage with Charlotte E. Kellenberger, the ceremony taking place 
in the old Pasqual Bequette house. He took his bride to the home purchased from 
Nathaniel Vise in 1862, located at 417 North Locust street, which has since been 
the home of the family and is perhaps the oldest homestead continuously 
inhabited by one family in Visalia. There eleven children were born to this 
worthy couple, viz.: Mrs. E. O. Miller, Mrs. H. W. Kelsey, George, Mrs. George 
Vogle, Mrs. G. C. Lamberson, Mrs. Herbert Askin, Mrs. Fannie Burroughs, 
deceased, Mrs. Eve Bliss, Clarence, Harry and Frank, also deceased. Mrs. Dineley 
was born in Washington and was a daughter of F. J. Kellenberger, who brought his 
children to the Pacific Coast via the Isthmus of Panama in 1860.
 
History of Tulare and Kings Counties, California with Biographical Sketches - 
Los Angeles, Calif., Historic Record Company, 1913, Pp 765-766