John Merritt "Merritt" Dismant
Marriages
Edith Rose (Newstrom) Dismant - September 11, 1901
at Glenwood Springs, Colorado.
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Obituaries
Eagle Valley Enterprise page 1 - March 17, 1939
DEATH CLAIMS ANOTHER PIONEER. MERRIT [sic Merritt] DISMANT PASSED AWAY ON PACIFIC COAST SATURDAY--WAS ONE OF THE LEADING MINE OPERATORS OF COUNTY FOR MANY YEARS.
Another pioneer of Eagle county passed away the past week when J. M. DISMANT died at the Los Angeles hospital last Saturday morning, following a long illness. The direct cause of his death was stated to be a kidney trouble.
Merrit [sic Merritt] DISMANT spent most of his life in Eagle county, and for nearly fifty years he and his brother, Voss, were among the leading mining men of the county, nearly all of their operations being on Battle mountain.They operated some of the largest properties in the Battle Mountain mining district at various times, and were responsible for the recovery of hundreds of thousands of dollars of ore. Making some notable strikes on the properties he operated, Mr. DISMANT put most of it back into the ground in search of further mineral riches. His last and most notable venture was the Liberty property on Turkey creek above Red Cliff. He, in association with others, spent more than three-quarters of a million dollars. His judgment on the ore bearing bodies on this property proved to be good. The the great flow of water encountered at the depth ore was located precluded profitable operations, and the development was finally abandoned, and the property finally passed into the hands of the Empire Zinc company.
Broken in health, some two years ago he and Mrs. DISMANT moved to California, where he was associated with Jack Teets, a former resident of Red Cliff, in the conduct of the first automobile hotel on the Pacific coast at Santa Monica, Calif. The business has been successful and Mr. DISMANT at first enjoyed better health and both he and Mrs. DISMANT were pleased and happy in their new home and business. The past year, however, health again began to fail him, and the end came Saturday.
Merrit [sic Merritt] DISMANT will long be remembered by the older residents of the county as a good citizen, progressive and loyal to his home and family, and will regret that disease called him before his time.
He is survived by his widow and three sons. Merrit [sic Merritt] V. still lives in Red Cliff the place of his nativity and is in business there. Carl, the second son, is a mining engineer in charge of operations for a large mining company in the Philippine Islands. The younger son, John, is this year attending the Colorado School of Mines in Golden from where he expects to graduate this spring with his engineer's degree. Carl was unable to reach his father during his last illness, but the remainder of the family were at his bedside during the last hours of his life.
Funeral services were held Monday and burial was made at Pomona.
