John Lewis Dyer (March 16, 1812 - June 16, 1901) was for some four decades a pioneering Methodist Episcopal itinerant preacher, first in Wisconsin and Minnesota, and then in the mining camps and other communities of his adopted U.S. state of Colorado. In Colorado he became known as Father Dyer, because of his age, relative to the young prospectors. He is considered one of the sixteen principal 19th century founders of Colorado.
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16 March 1812 Franklin County, Ohio
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16 June 1901 (aged 89)
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