Person:John Dye (19)

John Frank Dye, the second son and fourth in order of birth of the children of John Dye, was born May 23d, 1850. He was reared on the farm in Campbell county and later located in Covington, where he was engaged in the grocery business for several years. After a residence in Chicago, where he was engaged in railroad work, he returned to Kentucky and located in Newport, where in 1884 he organized the Newport Sand Bank Company, with a capital stock of $50,000 for the purpose of mining and shipping high grade moulding sand of superior quality, which was mined from the hills adjoining Newport.

He was the pioneer in this line of industry and built up an extensive business, later increasing the capital stock of the company to $100,000 and the business to extensive proportions, a ready sale being found throughout the United States and Canada and parts of Europe. The Newport Sand stands to-day without an equal in the United States, on account of its strength and fine surface qualities. He was for many years a progressive and successful business man and citizen of Newport, active in promoting the best interests of the city.

He married Virginia Boyd, October 15, 1877, by which union the following children were born: Lee Earl, deceased, James Elmer, deceased, Alma Myra, deceased, John Frank, Jr., Cleveland H., David Dudley and George Wilbur. The mother of these children died April 6, 1891, and the father later married Cora Van Duzen, by whom one son was born, E. W. Van.

John Dye was the founder and organizer of The Daylight Building and Savings Association in 1908, of Newport, of which he was the active head and president until his death, May 19, 1910. He was a member of the First Baptist church, Newport, for many years and active in church work, where he was deacon and superintendent of the Sunday-school many years. At the time of his death he was a resident of Cincinnati and a member of the Ninth Street Baptist church.