Civil War: Pvt Bat L 3rd PA Heavy Art
Served: 4/1/1864-11/9/1865

Thereon B Dimmick was educated after the public schools at the High School in Carbondale and Alford University NY He enlisted in the Pennsylvania Volunteers in the Civil War and served in the 188th Regiment until the close of the war He was one of the guards for Ex President Jefferson Davis during his imprisonment in Fortress Monroe On the organization of the Pennsylvania State Board of Health he was appointed a State Health Officer and still holds that office (Family of Blackleach Burritt Jr.)