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Dickey, Oliver J – Dickinson, Jonathan

Dickey, Oliver J

lawyer, congressman, was born April 6, 1823, in Brighton, Pa. He was district attorney for Lancaster county from 1856 to 1859; was elected to fill a vacancy in the fortieth congress; and was re-elected to the fortyfirst and forty-second congresses as a republican.

Dickie, Samuel

astronomer, lecturer, was born June 6, 1851, in Oxford county, Canada. For ten years he was professor of astronomy and physics in the Albion college, Mich. He is prominent in political affairs as a prohibitionist; and has lectured extensively on scientific subjects.

Dickins, John

clergyman, author, was born Aug. 24, 1747, in London, England. He suggested the plan of Cokesbury college, New Abingdon, Md., the first methodist academic institution in this country. He issued the Arminian Magazine in Philadelphia in 1789-90, and the Methodist Magazine from 1797 till his death. He died Sept. 27, 1798, in Philadelphia, Pa.

Dickinson, Alfred Elijah

clergyman, was born Dec. 3, 1830, in Orange county, Va. He associated himself with the Rev. Dr. Jeter as joint owner and editor of the Religious Herald, of Richmond, Va., and since the death of Dr. Jeter has been editor-in-chief of that journal.

Dickinson, Andrew Glassel

soldier, was born April 15, 1835, in Bowling Green, Va. He served through the civil war as a confederate; and for gallant and meritorious services received the rank of colonel.

Dickinson, David W

congressman.

He was a representative in congress from Tennessee from 1833 to 1835; and again from 1843 to 1845. He died April 27, 1845, in Franklin, Tenn.

DICKINSON, DONALD MCDONALD, cabinet officer, lawyer, politician, was born Jan. 17, 1847, in Port Ontario, N. Y.

In 1888 he became postmaster-general of the United States.

Dickinson, Edward

lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born Jan. 1, 1803, in Amherst, Mass. He was a member of the state legislature in 1838 and 1839; of the state senate in 1842 and 1843; of the governor's council in 1846 and 1847; and was a representative in congress from 1853 to 1855. He was again elected to the state legislature in 1873. He died June 16, 1874.

Dickinson, Edward F

soldier, lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Jan. 21, 1829, in Fremont, Ohio. He served three years in the union army as a lieutenant and regimental quartermaster. He was elected judge of probate for Sandusky county in 1866; and was elected a representative from Ohio to the forty-first congress as a democrat.

Dickinson, Emily

poet, was born in 1830, in Massachusetts. She was a poet whose entire life was passed in Amherst, Mass., in great seclusion, and who rarely published any of her work. Since her death attention has been drawn to the strikingly original nature of her poetry by the publication of three volumes of poems, selected from her manuscripts.

She died in 1886..

Dickinson, Hester A

journalist, poet, was born in Ohio. She is the author of two volumes of poems entitled Vesta; and Fagots. She is engaged in newspaper work, and president of the Pacific Coast Women's Press association.

Dickinson, John D

congressman, was born in 1767, in Middlesex county, Conn. He was a member of congress from New York from 1819 to 1823, and again from 1827 to 1831. He died Jan. 28, 1841, in Troy, N. Y.

Dickinson, Jonathan

jurist, author, was born in England. He was a chief justice of Pennsylvania, who came to the colony in 1696. His book, entitled God's Protecting Providence Man's Surest Help in Times of Danger, is a narrative of personal adventure, and has been several times reprinted since its first appearance in 1699. He died in 1722.