Got this on another list thought it should be on Morris County list for those researching DICKERSON >Resent-date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 17:23:47 -0700 >Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 20:23:40 -0400 (EDT) >Resent-from: [email protected] >From: [email protected] >Subject: REUBEN G. DICKERSON from Lytle's History of Delaware Coundy >Resent-sender: [email protected] >To: [email protected] >X-Mailer: AOL 5.0 for Windows sub 138 >X-Loop: [email protected] >Old-To: [email protected] >X-Original-Sender: [email protected] Sun Apr 22 17:23:46 2001 >X-Mailing-List: <[email protected]> archive/latest/252 >Original-recipient: rfc822;[email protected] > >Following is the biography of REUBEN G. DICKERSON from 20th Century History >of Delaware County, Ohio and Representative Citizens, edited and compiled by >James R. Lytle in 1908. R. G. Dickerson is my great-grandfather. Surnames in >this bio include DICKERSON, NOBLE, GRAVES, LEWIS, FOWLER, HENDERSON, >HEMPSTEAD, CARTER, PRENTICE, ALEXANDER, TAFT, GROVE, and JOSLIN. > >Submitted by Gwen Joslin Hiles > >REUBEN G. DICKERSON, who is a leading citizen of Orange Township, where he >has his valuable and well-improved farm of 99 ½ acres under a fine state of >cultivation, was born July 3, 1843, in Orange Township, Delaware County, >Ohio, and is a son of Lewis and Cynthia (Noble) Dickerson. > >The Dickerson family is of English extraction and is was founded in New >Jersey by Lewis Dickerson, the great-grandfather of Reuben G. His son, also >Lewis, became the grandfather, and the third Lewis was the father of Reuben >G. Dickerson. Lewis Dickerson (3) was born in Tompkins County, New York, >November 6, 1810, and in 1832 he came to Sandusky, Ohio, and from there, in >1833, to Orange Township, Delaware County. With the exception of one year >later spent in New York, and two years of residence at Cardington, Lewis >Dickerson lived continuously to his death on the present home farm to which >he came in 1856. He died December 15, 1883. > > On October 9, 1836, Lewis Dickerson was married to Cynthia Noble, who >died October 20, 1898. She was born near Powell, in Liberty Township, >Delaware County, Ohio, June 20, 1822, and was a daughter of James and Salomy >(Graves) Noble. The Graves family came to Licking County from Connecticut >among the pioneer settlers. There were two sons born to Lewis Dickerson and >wife: James H. and Reuben G. Both sons proved themselves brave men and loyal >soldiers. James H. Dickerson enlisted in the Federal army from the State of >New York, in 1861, becoming a member of Company D, Seventy-fifth Regiment, >New York Volunteer Infantry. He accompanied his comrades to Santa Rosa >Island, Florida, where he remained for a time at the navy yard and was then >sent to Louisiana and after the capture of New Orleans, by Admiral Farraagut, >he was under the command of General Benjamin Butler until General Banks >assumed command. Later he took part in the Red River campaign and was at >Alexandria, Pleasant Hill and the siege of Port Hudson. After the fall of >this stronghold, his corps joined Franklin's Corps of the Army of the >Potomac, and they fought the battle of Cedar Creek, where he also served >under General Sheridan. When he finally received his honorable discharge, he >had already served fifty-eight days over his term of enlistment. Although he >escaped serious injury, he had had two horses shot form under him. After the >close of his military service he went to New York, where he was married to >Laura Fuller, after which he returned to Delaware County and took up >residence at Lewis Center, where he died May 4, 1903. > > Reuben G. Dickerson obtained his education in the district schools. He >remained on his father's farm until 18 years of age, when he offered his >patriotic services in defense of his country. On August 2, 1861, he enlisted >at Delaware, Ohio, in Company A, Second Battery, United States Infantry, >under Captain Eystier, and was mustered in at Camp Thomas, then went to >Lebanon, Kentucky, and from there, on February 14, 1862, the First and Second >Battalions started on a march to Mill Springs, where they engaged in battle, >after which they returned to Bardstown, where Mr. Dickerson was left in a >hospital, where he remained for six weeks. He rejoined his regiment April 12, >1862, at Pittsburg Landing, then went on to the approaching battle of >Corinth, and after the siege and evacuation of that city, and his regiment >was detailed to guard the line of the M. & C. Railroad, he was discharged, on >account of physical disability, August 13, 1862. Mr. Dickerson gave himself a >few months in which to recuperate, and then re-enlisted, on June 29, 1863, >entering Company M, First Regiment, Ohio Heavy Artillery. He was stationed at >Fort Whittlesley, opposite Cincinnati, until February, 1864, when the battery >was sent to Nicholasville, Kentucky, marched from there to Point Burnside >near Somerset, and then crossed the mountains to Knoxville, Tennessee, >conveying the baggage on the backs of pack mules. Mr. Dickerson, with his >comrades, did guard and garrison duty along the line of the East Tennessee & >Virginia Railroad until November, 1864, when they entered the northeastern >part of Tennessee in order to cut off General Lee's retreat through Tennessee >Gap. The first Artillery took part in numerous skirmishes with General Joseph >Wheeler. On July 25, 1865, Mr. Dickerson was a second time honorably >discharged from his country's military bonds, at Knoxville, Tennessee, when >the regiment was mustered out. > > Mr. Dickerson returned to Ohio and for one year followed farming on the >homestead and continued to be variously engaged until 1872, when he began >railroad work on what was then the C., C., C. & I. Line, but is now the Big >Four Railroad. He worked seven years as foreman and fireman on a construction >train and for 12 years he was employed by the line as an engineer. He >continued railroading until July, 1890, when he settled down to farming. He >has greatly improved his property since settling on it, erecting a handsome >residence and adding to the appearance and convenience of the other >buildings. He carries on a general agricultural line. For about six years he >has been engaged quite extensively also in contracting and has built a number >of the excellent turnpike roads in this section. > > On December 9, 1868, Mr. Dickerson was married to Amelia W. Lewis, who is >a member of a very prominent family of Delaware County. Her father, the late >William T. Lewis, was born in New Jersey, in February, 1811, and died at >Lewis Center, Delaware County, in 1876. He married Sarah Fowler, who was born >also in New Jersey, January 3, 1822, and died in Ohio, April 20, 1900. They >came to Delaware County in 1843 and settled on farming land which later >became the site of the village of Lewis Center, which was named in honor of >William T. Lewis. He was the first postmaster and the leading man of affairs >in the town for many years, and donated a number of the public buildings to >the place, including the public school and the Methodist Episcopal Church and >parsonage. In 1849 he went to California, by the overland route, and returned >by way of the Isthmus of Panama, remaining in the far West until 1851 and >while there was engaged in mining. The children of William T. Lewis and wife >were: Eliza J., who married George Henderson, of Springfield; Mary P., who >married Alexander S. Hempstead, residing in Columbus; Amelia; Sarah E., who >married Lewis Carter, residing at Columbus; Augusta N., who married E. I. >Prentice of Mississippi, died in Paulding County, Ohio; Anna C., who married >Dr. R. C. Alexander, residing at Springfield; Katherine N., who died >unmarried; and Josie R., who married W. H. Taft, residing at Columbus. > > Mr. And Mrs. Dickerson have had four children, two sons and two >daughters, namely: Lewis H., who died aged one year and ten months; Charles, >who died aged eleven years and ten months; Sarah Elizabeth, who married A. L. >Grove, and they have three children, Ruby, Okey and Robert; and Ruby >Catherine, who married Edwin Joslin. They have three children, Ruth, Charles >and Richard. > > In politics, Mr. Dickerson is a Republican and he has served as justice >of the peace, as a member of the School Board and in other offices and is his >party's candidate in the coming campaign for the office of county >commissioner. Fraternally, he is an Odd Fellow and a Mason, a member of Hiram >Lodge, Chapter and Council at Delaware. Formerly he was a member of the >brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers. 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