"An Illustrated History of Skagit and Snohomish Counties." Interstate Publishing Company, 1906. p. 757. JOHN L. DALE postmaster of Edison, came to Skagit county several years after his parents, being attracted West by the possibilities of the country as represented to him by his father. He has prospered since coming and today is not sorry that he joined his fortunes with those of the Skagit county pioneers. Mr. Dale was born in Venango county, Pennsylvania, September 7, 1854, the son of John L. Dale, a native of Pennsylvania, born in 1814, an attorney at law, who practiced his profession for twenty years in River Falls, Wisconsin, then moved to Tennessee. The elder Dale came in the centennial year to Edison, where he died in 1878. He saw long service in the Civil War, and at the time of his discharge was a second lieutenant in the Thirtieth Wisconsin. Mrs. Massey (Jordan) Dale, a native of the Keystone state, born in 1833, shared the fortunes of her husband until his death. She passed away in Skagit county on Independence day of 1887, leaving five children of whom John L. is third. Mr. Dale attended the schools of Wisconsin and worked on his father's farm in that state until twenty years old then accompanied his parents to Tennessee, where he leased land and operated farms for twelve years. He remained in that southern state when his parents moved to Washington, but ten years later he followed them. For four years after his arrival here he worked in different places in the vicinity of Edison, and in 1890 he bought land which he sold to advantage in 1900. He then purchased the house and lot in Edison where he now resides. July 16, 1897, he was appointed to the postmastership of Edison, a position which he still holds at this writing. He was chosen county commissioner in the fall of 1892 and served four years, all of the time as chairman of the board. December 28, 1875, Mr. Dale married Miss Lucy J. Brown, a native of Nashville, Tennessee, and a daughter of Aquila Brown, a prominent citizen, at one time sheriff of Davidson County, Tennessee, for eight years. He is still living at the advanced age of eighty. Mrs. Martha J. Brown, the mother of Mrs. Dale, was a native of Tennessee and was reared and married there. She died in Nashville in 1884, leaving six children, of whom Mrs. Dale is third. Five children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Dale: Annie L., Robert I., Jennie C., John L., Jr., and Edna M. In fraternal circles Mr. Dale is an Odd Fellow and Mrs. Dale and her oldest daughter are Rebekahs. In political faith Mr. Dale is a Republican. He is one of the prominent and influential citizens of Edison, a man of energy, whose attainments are the results of earnest endeavor, assiduously continued, and in no degree of fortuity. ******************* Submitted to the Washington Biographies Project in May 2008 by Diana Smith. Submitter has no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned above.