D. D. DALE was born in Jackson Township, this county, May 13, 1836, and is the son of William R. and Prudence (Harlan) Dale, who were natives of Ohio, and of English and Irish descent. William R. Dale was married in Ohio in 1834, and in 1835 be and wife and his father and family located in Jackson Township, this county. There William R. and Prudence died in 1844 and 1862. William R. was the first candidate in the county for the office of Clerk on the Democratic ticket, but was defeated by William Sill, Whig. A remarkable circumstance, however, was that which occurred in 1867, when his son, D. D. Dale, defeated Mr. Sill's son M. M. Sill, for the same office. July 22, 1861, Daniel D. Dale enlisted as private in Company K, Twentieth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, but on the organization of the company was elected Second Lieutenant. He served until August, 1862, when he resigned, because of injuries received in the seven days' fight before Richmond. On his return home, he entered the County Clerk's office as Deputy; was then for a time in partnership with J. H. McCollum in the dry goods trade, and in 1867 was elected County Clerk, and re-elected, his last term expiring in 1875 ; he then for a time was engaged in the manufacture of woolen goods, but for the past few years has confined his attention to the practice of law. He was married, in June, 1864, to Miss Ophelia Reynolds, daughter of Isaac Reynolds, and to this union have been born four children-Charles H., George R., Bertha M. and Ida M. Mr. Dale is a Mason and a Democrat, and his wife is a member of the Presbyterian Church. His grandfather, Daniel Dale, who was very prominent in the affairs of this county, died in 18T4, at the age of eighty four.

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