Son of James Dalley and Emma Wright

Married Lurena Elizabeth Fitzgerald, 4 Oct 1875, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah

Children - Emma Agnes Cutler, John Edward Dalley, Lula Effie Dalley, Wealthy Virtue Dalley, Harriet Fitzgerald Dalley, Abram Fitzgerald Dalley, Milton Fitzgerald Dalley, Lurena Elizabeth Dalley

Married Mary Delcina Hansen, 14 Feb 1884, St. George, Washington, Utah

Children - Georgiana Dalley, Marguerite Dalley

Progressive Men of Bannock, Bear Lake, Bingham, Fremont and Oneida Counties

John E. Dalley, of Whitney, for many years a highly esteemed and successful school-teacher in Utah and Idaho, an active and efficient worker in his church since he was sixteen years old, and now a prosperous and enterprising stockman and farmer, was born at Pleasant Grove, Utah, on November 12, 1852. His parents, James and Emma (Wright) Dalley, were natives of England and became converts to the Mormon faith in that country. They came to America in 1849, he with his mother and she with her parents, and passed their first winter in this country near Council Bluffs, Iowa, at Winter Quarters, so called from the fact that the Mormons had their winter quarters for a number of years, and here the parents became acquainted and were married.

They remained at Council Bluffs until the spring of 1852, then crossed the plains to Utah and settled at Pleasant Grove, in Utah county, where they remained a year. In the fall of 1853 they moved to Iron county, in the same state, and located on land near Cedar City and engaged in farming. In 1860 he homesteaded land near Summit in that county, and since then he has there made his home. His wife died on October 20, 1875, and was buried at Summit.

Their son, John E. Dalley, of this review, was educated partly in the public schools, afterward attending the high schools at Draper and Logan and later the University of Utah, at Salt Lake City. After leaving the last named institution he taught school at Parowan from 1876 to 1884, being county superintendent of public instruction from 1877 to 1881 in Iron county, teaching at the same time. From 1884 to 1889 he taught successively, being also engaged in the sheep business at Pleasant Grove. In 1889 and 1890 he attended the Brigham Young Academy at Provo, completing the normal course of instruction. After that he again taught school at Pleasant Grove until 1893, when he came to Preston, to take charge of the Oneida Stake Academy, which he conducted as principal for three years and in which he was afterward department instructor for two years. In November, 1898, he was elected superintendent of schools of Oneida county, and was re-elected in 1900, serving two terms. In 1902 his brother, Albert C. Dalley, was elected on the Republican ticket to this office and he, although a Democrat, is serving as deputy superintendent.

In 1895 Mr. Dalley bought the ranch on which he lives and which has since then been his home, and, after building the commodious and attractive dwelling and other buildings which adorn it, he moved his family there, and here he has passed the subsequent years of his life busily engaged in farming and in raising stock. He has always been an ardent and active Democrat in politics, taking a more than usual interest in party affairs since making his home in Oneida county. From the time when he was sixteen years of age, he has been zealous and industrious in the service of hrs church, serving as a high counselor of Parowan stake in Utah from 1877 to 1879, and as the bishop of Parowan Ward from 1879 to 1883. Then being the first counselor to the president until 1890. In this state he has been the high counsellor of Oneida stake since 1893.

On October 4, 1875, at Salt Lake City, Mr. Dalley was joined in marriage with Miss Lurena E. Fitzgerald, a native of Utah, daughter of Perry and Agnes (Wadsworth) Fitzgerald, the father receiving his birth in Pennsylvania and the mother hers in England. The father came to Utah in 1847 and the mother in 1850, and they were married at Salt Lake City, and then they made their home at Draper, where the father died on October 4, 1889, and the mother on March 23, 1902.

Eight children have been born unto the Dalley household, E. Agnes (Mrs. Cutler), John E. (died in infancy), Lula E. (Mrs. Winward), Wealthy V. (Mrs. Hull), Harriet R. Abram F., Milton F. and Lurena E.