Daniel E. Dininny was born in the town of Oneonta, OTSEGO county, NY on November 6, 
1824, son of Ferrill and Sarah (Bergett) Dininny, natives of Ireland and 
Schoharie county respectively. Mr. Dininny came to America in 1801 and worked in 
Stillwater. He married and settled in Otsego county and engaged in farming and 
lumbering. In 1833 he settled in Addison, now the town of Tuscarora (Steuben 
county NY-AC), where he died in May, 1871, and during the last twenty-eight 
years of his life he was blind. Mrs. Dininny died in 1836. He was in the War of 
1812. Daniel E. learned the carpenter's trade, but when twenty years of age he 
engaged in farming, which has been his life's work. He has 200 acres of land and 
makes a specialty of tobacco growing. In 1850 he married Marietta, daughter of 
John and Catherine Young, by whom he had two children, O. H. and John E., who 
farm the home farm. Mr. Dininny has been highway commissioner a number of terms.

From "Landmarks of Steuben County" by Hon. Harlo Hakes 1896
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