Background
Dulaney, Benjamin Lewis was born on September 11, 1857 in Blountville, Tennessee, United States. Son of Benjamin Lewis and Rebecca Cobb (Masengill) Dulaney.
Dulaney, Benjamin Lewis was born on September 11, 1857 in Blountville, Tennessee, United States. Son of Benjamin Lewis and Rebecca Cobb (Masengill) Dulaney.
Completed high school course, Jefferson Academy, Blountville, 1878. Normal school, Jonesboro, Tennessee, 1879-1880. Taught high school, 2 years.
John, December 26, 1895. Children—L. C., Alice Rebecca. Married 3d, Elma Dykes, March 16, 1923.
1 son, William
Dykes. Began development work in Virginia and Tennessee, 1885. Built Bristol (Tennessee) Iron Furnace, and Bristol, Elizabethton & Carolina Railroad, 1889-1890. Organized Virginia&South.W. Railway and Virginia Iron, Coal & Coke Company, 1898-1899.
Developed the Black Mountain Coal Field in Virginia and Kentucky, 1890-1914.
Through a Senatorial investigation, succeeded in making Charleston, South Carolina., a coal loading port for all southeastern coal mines. Retired. Commissioner to Paris Exposition, 1900, Saint Louis Exposition, 1904.
Mason. A founder of Boy Scouts of America Vice-President for 14 years from its organization in America.
Married Mary Dulaney, October 10, 1881. Married second, Alice Saint Married 3d, Elma Dykes, March 16, 1923.
Children: Paul, Fred.