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Dickenson, Anna Elizabeth – Dickey, Moses R

Dickenson, Anna Elizabeth

lecturer, author, was born Oct. 28, 1842, in Philadelphia, Pa. She gained great distinction during the civil war by her public speeches against slavery, and has been considered one of the most popular lecturers of the United States.

Dickenson, Baxter

clergyman, author, was born in 1795, in Massachusetts. He was a congregational clergyman of Boston, and the author of Letters to Students. He died in 1875.

Dickenson, Daniel S

lawyer, statesman, was born Sept. 11, 1800, in Goshen, Conn. He became so distinguished for his Biblical knowledge and apt quotations from the Scripture in his speeches in senate and court, that his friends familiarly applied to him the sobriquet of Scripture Dick. He died April 12, 1866.

Dickerson, James Stokes

clergyman, journalist, was born July 6, 1825, in Philadelphia, Pa. Removing in 1875 to Chicago, he became joint proprietor and editor of the Standard, a baptist weekly paper. He died in March, 1876, in Chicago, Ill.

Dickerson, Philemon

lawyer, jurist, congressman, governor, was born in 1788, in Morris county, N. J. He was a representative in congress from the Paterson district, in that state, from 1833 to 1835, and again from 1839 to 1841. In 1836 he was governor of New Jersey; and was subsequently appointed judge of the United States district court for New Jersey. He died Dec. 10, 1862, in Paterson, N. J.

Dickey, Ebenezer

clergyman, author, was born March 12, 1772, near Oxford, ra. He published A Tract to Parents; a pamphlet entitled Plea for Christian Communion; and wrote for the Christian Advocate a series of letters on Travels in Europe for Health in 1820, that were widely read. He died May 31, 1831, in Oxford, Pa.

Dickey, Henry L

civil engineer, lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born Oct. 29, 1832, in South Salem, Ohio.

He was a representative in the state legislature in 1861; was a state senator in 1867 and 1868; and was elected a representative from Ohio to the forty-fifth and forty-sixth congresses as a democrat.

Dickey, Jesse C

congressman, was born in Pennsylvania. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1849 to 1851.

Dickey, John

congressman. He was a member of congress from Pennsylvania from 1843 to 1845, and from 1847 to 1849.

At the time of his death he was United States marshal for western Pennsylvania.

He died March 14, 1853, in Beaver county, Pa.

Dickey, John Mcelroy

clergyman, author, was born Dec. 16, 1789, in York district, S. C. He went on missionary tours, organized many new churches in Indiana, and his connection with the beginnings of the presbyterian church in that territory caused him to be widely known in his denomination. He published a History of the Presbyterian Church in Indiana, and was preparing a continuation of it at the time of his death. He died Nov. 21, 1849, near Washington, Ind.

Dickey, John Miller

clergyman, educator, was born Dec. 15, 1806, in Oxford, Pa. He conducted the Oxford Female seminary for fifteen years in addition to his pastoral duties. He took the principal part in establishing the Ashmun institute, afterward Lincoln university, at Oxford, and was president of the board of trustees from 1854 till his death.

He died March 21, 1878, in Philadelphia, Pa.

Dickey, Moses R

soldier, lawyer. jurist, was born Nov. 4, 1827, in Richland county, Ohio. He served as lieutenantcolonel in the fifteenth regiment Ohio volunteer infantry, and as colonel in the same regiment. He has served as judge of court of common pleas.