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Dixey, Henry E – Dixon, William Wirt

Dixey, Henry E

actor, was born Jan. 6, 1839, in Boston, Mass. In 1875 he played the Heifer in Evangeline at the Globe theatre. Other roles in which he has been seen are: Dr. Syntax in Cinderella at School, Lorenzo in The Mascot, Sir Mincing Lane in Billee Taylor, Bunthorne in Patience, Sir Joseph Porter in Pinafore, Peter Papyms in The New Evangeline, and Boss Knivett in The Romany Rye.

Dixon, James Main

educator, author, was born in 1856 in Scotland. He has been a professor of English literature in Washington university, St. Louis, since 1892, and the author of A Dictionary of Idiomatic English Phrases.

Dixon, James Payson

educator, college president, was born in September, 1842, in West Lebanon, Maine. He is a successful educator, and the president of Colby academy of New London, N. Η.

Dixon, Joseph

inventor, was born Jan. 18, 1799, in Marblehead, Mass. He was entirely self-educated, and early showed unusual mechanical ingenuity, inventing a machine for cutting files before he was twenty-one. He died June 17, 1869, in Jersey City, N. J.

Dixon, Joseph

merchant, jurist, congressman, was born April 29, 1828, in Greene county, N. C. He has been a magistrate and judge of the county court; and was a member of the state legislature in 1868 and 1869. He was elected to the forty-first congress to fill a vacancy.

Dixon, Joseph Henry

congressman. He was a representative in congress from North Carolina from 1799 to 1801.

Dixon, Luther C

jurist. He was an early emigrant to the territory of Wisconsin; and was appointed a justice of the United States court for the territory of Wisconsin.

Dixon, Nathan Fellows

lawyer, United States senator, was born in 1774, • in Plainfield, Conn. In 1813 he was elected a member of the general assembly of that state, and continued to serve in that capacity for seventeen years; and from 1839 to 1842 was a senator of the United States. He died Jan. 29, 1842, in Washington, D. C.

Dixon, Nathan Fellows

lawyer, congressman, was born May 1, 1812, in Westerly, R. I. He was elected a representative from Rhode Island to the thirty-first congress. He was again elected to the general assembly of his state in 1851, and with the exception of two years held the office until 1859. In 1863 he was elected to the thirty-eighth congress; and was re-elected to the thirty-ninth, fortieth and forty-first congresses.

Dixon, Nathan Fellows

lawyer, congressman, United States senator, was born Aug. 28, 1847, in Westerly, R. I. In 1877 he was appointed United States district attorney for the district of Rhode Island; and was reappointed in 1881. In 1885 he was elected a representative from Rhode Island to the forty-eighth congress, to fill a vacancy; and was elected in 1889 to the United States senate.

Dixon, Sam H

author. He published a collection of poems with biographies, entitled Poets and Poetry of Texas.

Dixon, William Wirt

lawyer, congressman, was born June 3, 1838, in Brooklyn, N. Y. He was a member of the legislative assembly of Montana territory in 1871-72; was a member of the constitutional conventions of Montana of 1884-89; and has held no other office. He was elected to the fifty-second congress as a democrat.