Timothy Dimock
{{short description|American politician}}
{{Infobox officeholder
|name = Timothy Dimock, MD
|office1 = Member of the Connecticut Senate
|term_start1 = January 1, 1846
|term_end1 = December 31, 1846
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|office2 = Member of the Connecticut House of Representatives
|term_start2 = January 1, 1838
|term_end2 = December 31, 1838
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|birth_date = {{birth date|1799|04|17}}
|birth_place = Coventry, Connecticut
|death_date = {{death date and age|1874|04|29|1799|04|17}}
|death_place = South Coventry, Connecticut
|restingplace = Nathan Hale Cemetery
|alma_mater = Yale Medical School
|spouse = {{marriage|Mary Ann Moody
|1826|1838|reason=her death}}
{{marriage|Laura Farnam Booth
|1839|1872|reason=her death}}
|children = 4
|unit = Connecticut Militia
|battles =
}}
Timothy Dimock (April 17, 1799 – April 29, 1874) was an American physician and politician who was the father or prominent lawyer and businessman Henry F. Dimock.
Early life and career
Dimock was born on April 17, 1799, in Coventry, Connecticut, to Daniel Dimick (1765-1833) and Anna Wright (1766-1832).{{cite web|title=Timothy Dimock Papers, 1809-1887|url=https://chs.org/finding_aides/finding_aids/Dimock.html|website=chs.org|publisher=Connecticut Historical Society|accessdate=11 November 2016}} He had eight siblings.{{cite web|last1=Johnston|first1=Robert|title=Timothy Dimock Papers, 1809–1887|url=https://chs.org/finding_aides/finding_aids/Dimock.html|website=chs.org|publisher= Connecticut Historical Society |accessdate=15 April 2016}} Dimock graduated from Yale Medical School in 1823.
He practiced medicine in Coventry since taking his degree. In 1846, he was a member of the Connecticut State Senate, and ex officio one of the Corporation of Yale College.{{cite book|last1=Bradley, Jr.|first1=Charles W.|title=The Connecticut Register: Being a State Calendar of Public Officers and Institutions in Connecticut, for ...|date=1846|publisher=Brown and Parsons|location=Hartford, Connecticut|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YwtQAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA190N}}
He was a member of the Connecticut House of Representatives in 1838 and the Senate in 1846.{{cite web|last1=Kestenbaum|first1=Lawrence|title=Dimock, Timothy|url=http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dilweg-dionysius.html#935.76.28|website=politicalgraveyard.com|publisher=The Political Graveyard|accessdate=11 November 2016}} During the 1850s and 1860s, he served as surgeon for parts of Connecticut's militia, empowered to grant medical waivers for exemption of duty.
Personal life
On June 29, 1826, Dimock married Mary Ann Moody (1810–1838). Together they had a daughter.
After Moody's death in 1838, he married Laura Farnam Booth (1819-1872) on May 8, 1839. Together they had:
- Mary Elizabeth Dimock (1840-1842)
- Henry F. Dimock (1842–1911),{{cite news|title=HENRY F. DIMOCK DEAD.; Financier and Yale Corporation Director and Former Dock Commissioner.|url=http://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1911/04/11/104861715.html?pageNumber=11|accessdate=11 November 2016|work=The New York Times|date=April 11, 1911}} who married Susan Collins Whitney, daughter of James Scollay Whitney (1811-1878) of the prominent Whitney family
- Maria Farnam Dimock (1843-1861)
He died in South Coventry, Conn., April 29, 1874, and is buried at the Nathan Hale Cemetery in Coventry, Connecticut.{{cite book|last1=University|first1=Yale|title=Obituary Record of Graduates of Yale University|date=1915|publisher=The University|location=New Haven, Connecticut|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ulodAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA45}}
=Honors=
The Booth & Dimock Memorial Library in Coventry is named for him and Reverend Chauncey Booth.{{cite web | url=http://www.coventrypl.org/history.html | title=Our History | publisher=Booth & Dimock Memorial Library | accessdate=1 July 2015}} His son, Henry, who died on April 10, 1911, left $40,000 ({{Inflation|US|40000|1911|r=-3|fmt=eq}}) to the South Coventry Library Association to build the Booth and Dimock Memorial Library, named for his father and grandfather.
References
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External links
- {{find a Grave|61844417}}
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Category:Yale School of Medicine alumni
Category:Connecticut state senators
Category:Physicians from Connecticut
Category:19th-century members of the Connecticut General Assembly