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MELVIN DELL
Is the owner of the dairy company bearing his name, and he conducts in the city of Niagara Falls in an establishment that is thoroughly modern and metropolitan in equipment and service, and he is one of the well-known and substantial business men of this city.
Melvin Dell, Jr., was born on March 6th, 1890, in Willoughby township, Welland County, near Niagara Falls, Ont., and is the son of Richard and Marjorie Dell, the former was a farmer who moved to Chippawa, this county, two years before he passed away, now deceased; while his mother is still living on Maitland Street, Niagara Falls.
Mr. Dell Jr., obtained his education at the school in Willoughby township, and a considerable portion of his youthful days was spent on his father’s farm until he was twenty-one. He spent the next three years in the general store of his uncle, Adin Dell, at Niagara Falls, and then, to better fit himself for subsequent progress in the business world he spent the next eight years with the W.H. Martin store, in that city, and then being ambitious, he started up his own dairy business at the present location, 2493 Orchard Avenue, Niagara Falls, with only one horse, one wagon and one cow, until by his industry he now has five 
wagons with five men working for him. The second year after he started, he built and he equipped his present business with up-to-date equipment and pasteurizing machinery with two large glass lined sanitary milk tanks which have a capacity of 2,160 quarts daily. This milk plant is so arranged with modern appliances that the milk, after being pasteurized, is never touched by human hands until it reaches the table of the consumer. This business has grown in seven years to fifteen times its first year sales, which attests the high quality of this milk and cream. He handles a jersey milk that by government tests is running five percent, the quality of their milk averages very highly; the law only requires three to five, so that the product of the Dells Dairy averages five points and above. The health inspector has pronounced this to be the cleanest dairy in Niagara Falls, Ont., He is an active member of the United Church. He was married for the first time to Miss Maud Irene Baker, who passed away in 1918; they had one child, a boy, Ross Melvin, now attending school. His second marriage was to Miss Marguerite Green, who was born in Lundy’s Lane, daughter of Raymond and Alice Green, the former being a farmer; both her parents are living in Niagara Falls; there were three children by this second marriage; two girls, one boy Marion, Gordon, and Marjorie; the two latter children are attending public school at Falls View School. Mrs. Dell’s great grandfather fought in the Fenian Raids, and was one of the original U.E. Loyalists.
A sound business man and a good citizen, Mr. Dell measures up to the best standards of Canadian manhood and his contribution to his community is of solid value.
A.E. Coombs
History of The Niagara Peninsula and the New Welland Canal
1930
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