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Rev. Benjamin Franklin Delo
Facts and Events
| Name |
Rev. Benjamin Franklin Delo |
| Gender |
Male |
| Birth? |
16 Apr 1832 |
Beaver, Clarion, Pennsylvania, United States |
| Marriage |
1 Jan 1857 |
to Phoebe Ann Fleming |
| Death? |
13 Jun 1916 |
Clarion, Clarion, Pennsylvania, United States |
| Burial? |
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Clarion Cemetery, Clarion, Clarion, Pennsylvania, United States |
Benjamin lived with his parents during the 1850 US Federal Census.
References
- Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley
1:249-251, 1913.
Rev. Benjamin F. Delo, son of Daniel and Christiana (Loughner) Delo was born in Beaver township, Clarion (then Venango) county, April 16, 1832. He was only five years old when he went to his first school; his first teacher was Miss Polly Morgan ... On April 1, 1844, the family moved to Clarion, he then went to a summer school kept by Rev. George F. Ehrenfelt. In August, 1844, his father apprenticed him to Reid & Alexander, of the Clarion Democrat, to learn the art of printing. A year later Alexander purchased Reid’s interest and later sold a half interest to George B. Weaver. ... At the end of three years in the office he was a journeyman for a few months; he then attended school for the winter, after which he was journeyman on the Clarion Banner, A. J. Gibson, proprietor. In February, 1849, he united with the Methodist Episcopal church in Clarion, and for a short time canvassed as a book agent. The first part of 1850 was spent in study with his brother, John A., at Shippensville. The summer was spent in the Clarion Banner office. In 1851 he clerked for M. S. Adams at Martinsburg (now Bruin), Butler county, Pennsylvania. The winter following he taught school at Attleberger’s schoolhouse, in Beaver township, Clarion county; in March, 1852, he received license as an exhorter in the Methodist Episcopal church. The early part of the summer was spent in charge of the store at Martha Furnace, in preparation for closing up the works. In the fall of 1852, after clerking for Richard Richardson in Shippensville for a time, he went to Meadville and worked as journeyman for J. C. Hays on the Crawford Journal, until the spring of 1853, when he entered as a student in Allegheny College. In the vacation of 1855, July 3d, he was licensed a local preacher of the Methodist Episcopal church, on the Shippensville circuit. In the middle of the fall term at college, he was called as second preacher on Pleasantville circuit. In the fall of 1856 he did some speech making for the Republican party, and entered into the lumbering business. On the 1st of January, 1857, Mr. Delo married Phebe Ann, daughter of Daniel Jr. and Phebe Ann (King) Fleming, of West Hickory, Pennsylvania. Daniel Fleming Sr. came from Allegheny county, son of Fleming, whose wife was a Reed. Daniel Fleming Sr. married Nancy Hardy, of Venango county. She had a brother, Hardy, who kept a hotel on the Franklin and Pittsburgh turnpike. The Kings were from Tioga county, New York (Bainbridge). Of the Flemings it is said their progenitors were from the north of Scotland. In August, 1857, Mr. Delo returned to Meadville and worked as a journeyman for Mitchell & Sears on the Spirit of the Age. From January 1, 1858, to August, 1859, he was foreman on the Crawford Democrat, Wilson was editor and proprietor. He returned then to lumbering on West Hickory. In August, 1859, Colonel Drake struck petroleum oil, two miles below Titusville, on Watson Flat. The influx of population required an additional preacher in the Methodist Episcopal church of Titusville, in the beginning of 1860, and Mr. Delo filled the place. From July, 1860, to July 1862, he was a missionary on Oil Creek, in the oilfields. He did the first Methodist preaching at Rouseville and Plummer. In 1862, in August, he was appointed on Pleasant Valley circuit. In 1863 he was received as a member of the Erie conference of the Methodist Episcopal church, Bishop Simpson presiding, was ordained a deacon, and appointed to Kinzua, where he preached for three years. [etc.]
He was the father of only three children: 1. Daniel F., who was educated in the common schools, Carrier Seminary and Allegheny College. After studying law he died at the age of twenty-four years. He was born in Meadville, November 22, 1857; married Mary Frances, daughter of Henry Lewis, of Edinboro, Erie county, Pennsylvania. They had one daughter, Flora Winifred, born in Callensburg. 2. William Chester, was born in West Hickory, Venango county, Pennsylvania, November 26, 1859. He was educated in the common schools and Carrier Seminary; was assistant agent at Clarion, of the B. & O. R. R. and agent at West Clarion. He is unmarried. 3. Mary Ella, was born at Kinzua, Pennsylvania, November 16, 1865, and died at Wheatland, Pennsylvania, aged six years, four months, eleven days.
- Pennsylvania, United States. Pennsylvania, U.S., Death Certificates, 1906-1968 [database online] . (Lehi, Utah: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014).
Name: Rev Benjiman Franklin Delo
Gender: Male
Race: White
Age: 84
Birth Date: 16 Apr 1832
Birth Place: Pennsylvania
Death Date: 13 Jun 1916
Death Place: Clarion, Clarion, Pennsylvania, USA
Father Name: Daniel Delo
Father Birth Place: Pennsylvania
Mother Name: Christiana Laughner
Mother Birth Place: Pennsylvania
Certificate Number: 61211
- Rev Benjamin Franklin Delo, in Find A Grave.
Rev. Benjamin F. Delo, a brother of Herman L. Delo, of 1227 Thirteenth avenue, and formerly one of the best known ministers of the Methodist Episcopal church, died at his home at Clarion, Pa., at Monday midnight. He was aged 84 years and had resided for the greater part of his life at Clarion. He has been for some years on the superannuated list of ministers of the Methodist Episcopal church, was a member of the Erie conference and for a period of many years was one of the best known preachers in the state. He was a member of the Free and Accepted Masonic fraternity and at the time of his death was grand chaplain of the grand chapter of the state of Pennsylvania. He is survived by one son, William, of Clarion. He is also survived by two brothers, Herman L. Delo, of this city, and Thomas B. Delo, of Elmira. The brothers will meet at Williamsport today and proceed from there to Clarion to attend the funeral which will take place Friday afternoon with services and interment at Clarion.
Altoona Tribune, page 16, Wednesday, June 14, 1916
Family Members
Parents
Daniel Delo
1799–1877
Christena Loughner Delo
1807–1877
Spouse
Phoebe Ann Fleming Delo
1836–1913
Siblings
George Washington Delo
1824–1915
John A Delo
1826–1864
Abigail Delo Page
1828–1907
Daniel A. Delo
1846–1865
Thomas B Delo
1849–1945
Children
Daniel Fleming Delo
1857–1882
William Chester Delo
1859–1930
Mary Ella Delo
1865–1872
- Crawford, Pennsylvania, United States. 1860 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration Publication M693)
Oil Creek.
Benj F Dilo 28
Phaebe Dilo 24
Daniel Dilo 9
Wm C Dilo 10/12
- Warren, Pennsylvania, United States. 1870 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration Publication M593)
Youngsville.
Benj F Dele 38
Phoebe A Dele 34
Daniel F Dele 12
Wm C Dele 10
Mary E Dele 4
- Clarion, Pennsylvania, United States. 1880 U.S. Census Population Schedule
Clarion.
Benjamin F. Delo 48
Pheobe A. Delo 44
Daniel F. Delo 22
Mary F. Delo 23
William C. Delo 20
- Clarion, in Clarion, Pennsylvania, United States. 1900 U.S. Census Population Schedule.
Benjamin F Delo 68
Phebe A Delo 64
Flora W Delo 18 granddaughter
William C Delo 40
- Clarion, Pennsylvania, United States. 1910 U.S. Census Population Schedule
Clarion.
Benjamin F Delo 77
Phebe A Delo 73
William C Delo 50
Flora Winifred Delo 27
- Obituary.
Benjamin Franklin Delo
Obituary of Rev. B. F. Delo from a Clarion Newpaper no date or newspaper name on clipping – clipping was found among the possessions of Grace (Stover) Bryner. Rev. Delo performed her wedding.
Rev. B. F. Delo
At exactly five minutes after 12 o’clock as the night turned toward the morning last Tuesday, June 13, 1916, the spirit of the Rev. Benjamin F. Delo, one of the oldest preachers of Erie Conference, Methodist Episcopal Church, bade farewell to the scenes of mortality and his loved ones below, and opened his eyes in the world of light and glory and bade good morning to his Saviour and Redeemer and the loved ones who preceded him to the home above.
Rev. Delo had not been real well for a year or more and his family and friends felt very solicitous as to his condition. But he continued in his activities public and private very much as he had for years, and made little or no complaint. Last November or December his indisposition grew more serious and after a number of consultations the physicians agreed that a serious growth had developed in his stomach, which was decided to be cancer, and this it was that finally terminated his life. He seemed perfectly conscious all along of the danger attending his sickness, but there was never any expression of fear, indicating he had “an anchor . . .(the rest of this paragraph is unreadable).
Benjamin Franklin Delo was the son of Daniel and Christiana (Lougner) Delo, and was born in Beaver Township, Clarion (then Venango) County, on April 16 1832, thus making him 84 years old last April, when his neighbors and many friends visited him and sent him tokens of their esteem and love, making the day a bright and happy one to him.
We a boy 12 years of age Rev. Delo’s father and family removed to Clarion, where he attended a summer school, until he was apprenticed in August 1844 to learn the printer’s trade in the Clarion Democrat office, under D. J. Reid and Wm. T. Alexander, his associates in the office being the late John C. Reid, J. F. Weaver, later of Center County, and J. P. George, later of Brookville. After finishing his trade he went to school and then worked on the Clarion Banner.
In 1849 he had a definite religious experience and untied with the Methodist Episcopal Church in Clarion. Following this he went to school, worked at printing, clerked in stores, and taught school until 1852. He exhibited such gifts and graces that in March 1852, he was given license to exhort by the Methodist Episcopal Church, and from that time on the trend of his life was steadily toward the ministry, though in the fall of 1852 he went to Meadville to work as a printer on the Crawford Journal. In the spring of 1853 he entered Allegheny College as a student, and July 1855 was licensed as a local preacher on the Shippenville charge. The next fall there being a demand for his services he preached on the Pleasantville circuit. Following this he tried the lumbering business, but afterwards went back to the printing business and after other employment, was a foreman of the Crawford Democrat from January 1858 to August 1859. He then returned to lumbering, but when Col. E. L. Drake struck oil near Titusville in 1859, there was such an influx of people in that region that a demand was made for his services as a second preacher at Titusville and he responded. In 1860 to 1862 he gave devoted service as a missionary preacher along Oil Creek and became known as a pioneer oil country preacher. In August 1862, he was appointed preacher on Pleasant Valley circuit, and in 1863 was received as a member of Erie Conference, Bishop Simpson, presiding.
Having given his life fully to the ministry, his appointments were as follows: Kinzue, Frewsburg, Cochranton, Youngsville, Wheatland, Brookville, Greece City, St. Petersburg, Presiding Elder Brookville and Clarion Districts, Callensburg, Knox agent for Carrier Seminary and pastor at Clarion. All through his pastorates success attended him in his work, which as of a constructive nature, and he the joy of seeing many souls coming into the kingdom of Christ through his instrumentality. It would be impossible to put an estimate upon the good he did throughout his ministerial life, but the amount was large. He was a truly orthodox, faithful and forceful preacher, some times seeming wonderfully inspired by the Spirit of God in the declaration of Gospel truth.
On Jan 1, 1857, Mr. Delo and Miss Phoebe Ann Fleming, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Fleming, Jr. of West Hickory, PA, were united in marriage to them were born two sons and one daughter. Daniel F., the oldest son, died at the age of 24 and his son’s daughter Miss Flora was a great stay and support to her grandfather and grandmother. The second son, William C. Delo, lived with his father and cared for him to the last. His only daughter, Mary Ella, died at Wheatland, Pa., aged 6 years, 4 months and 11 days. Mrs. Delo was and invalid for about twenty-five years and this prevented Rev. Delo from following the life of an itinerant minister, and he finally located in Clarion and went on the retired list in 1897, after having given thirty-three years of effective service in Erie Conference and five years preceding his entrance to the Conference. Mrs. Delo died August 30, 1913, leaving him with his son and granddaughter.
Probably the most notable work of Rev. Delo was done during his pastorate in Clarion when he let the members of the Church to erect the beautiful stone church in which they now worship, at and expense at that time of $35,000, but which with the improvements that have been made, could not now be duplicated for twice that sum. It will stand a s a monument to the far-sightedness and the patient toil of Rev. Delo as well as the loyalty and faithfulness of the membership of the church, who sacrificed to carry out the project he planned.
The funeral will take place Friday afternoon at 2 o’clock. The body will be borne from his home to the church at 9 o’clock Friday morning. All who desire to view the remains should do so before 2’oclock at which time the casket will be closed and the funeral services will begin. The services will be under the direction of the pastor, Rev. A. C. Locke, and District Superintendent Rev. Dr. C. W. Miner, of DuBois, assisted by visiting ministers of Erie Conference and the Clarion pastors.
Rev Benjamin F Delo Rev. Benjamin F. Delo
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Father* Daniel Delo (b. 09 Dec 1799, d. 19 Dec 1877)
Mother* Christina Laughnor (b. 28 Nov 1807, d. 02 Dec 1877)
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Birth* 16 Apr 1832 Clarion County, PA.
Marriage* 01 Jan 1857 Phoebe Ann Fleming (b. 1836, d. 30 Aug 1913)
Son: 22 Nov 1857 Daniel Fleming Delo (b. 22 Nov 1857, d. 28 Feb 1882); Clarion County, PA.
Daughter: __ ___ 1858 Mary Ella Delo (b. 1858, d. 1862)
Son: 26 Nov 1859 William Chester Delo (b. 26 Nov 1859, d. 06 Dec 1931); PA.
Death* 13 Jun 1916 Clarion, PA.
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http://www.krepps.net/benjaminfranklindelo.htm
- Benjamin Franklin Delo 16 April 1832 – 13 June 1916 • LCT6-14W, in FamilySearch Family Tree.
Benjamin Franklin Delo
1832–1916 • LCT6-14W
Marriage: 1 January 1857
Phebe Ann Fleming
1836–1913 • LCT6-1MQ
Children of Phebe Ann Fleming and Benjamin Franklin Delo (3)
Daniel Fleming Delo
1857–1882 • 9C42-P8F
William Chester Delo
1859–1931 • LZRD-3VC
Mary Ella Delo
1865–1872 • LZRD-3J6
https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/sources/LCT6-14W
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