Home › D › Dickinson, Philemon

Dickinson, Philemon

soldier, congressman, United States senator, was born April 5, 1739, in Dover, Del. He commanded the Jersey militia at the battle of Monmouth; and was a delegate from Delaware to the continental congress from 1782 to 1783. After the organization of the national government in its present form, he was appointed a senator in congress from 1790 to 1793. He died Feb. 4, 1809, in Trenton, N. J.

DICKINSON, RICHARD WILLIAM, clergyman, author, was born Nov. 21, 1804, in New York city. He was a presbyterian clergyman of New York city, and the author of Scenes from Sacred History; Responses from the Sacred Oracles; Religious Teaching by Example; Life and Times of John Howard; and The Resurrection of Christ Historically and Logically Viewed. He died Aug. 16, 1874, in Fordham, N. Y.