David Dibert, merchant, b. in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, 24 September, 1824; d. at Ridgewood Park, Berks County, 30 August, 1889, son of John and Rachel Cable (Blauch) Dibert. He was descended from Huguenots, who made their home in America in 1740. The family name was originally spelled De Bere. Mr. Dibert was educated in the schools of his native county, and there grew to manhood and married. In 1850 he removed to Cambria County, whither his parents had preceded him, and engaged in mercantile business on the South Side of the present city of Johnstown. During his long life in this locality, he was closely identified with public affairs, especially as a member of the city School Board. He was also a charter member of the Johnstown Savings Bank; a member of the Board of Trustees and of the Building Committee of the First Methodist Church. His disinterested activities in behalf of the sufferers from the great flood at Johnstown in May, 1889, resulted in such impairment of his health as to cause his death three months later. He married in 1848, Lydia Connelly Griffith, also a native of Somerset County and a descendant of Welsh colonists who came to this country before the Revolution. She was a woman of rare character and dignity, and the devoted mother of ten children.
Source: The Cyclopedia of American Biography, Supplementary Edition, ed. by J.E. Homans, New York: The Press Association Compilers, Inc., 1924, p. 67.
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