William Dickson

biography

Dickson, William, foundryman, Meadville, was born in this county, February 15, 1819, and is a son of Joseph Dickson, who was born in this State in 1790, and has lived longer in this county than any man now in it. Our subject grew to manhood in Hayfield Township, this county, attending the old log-schoolhouse, and working in his father’s mill from the time he was big enough to be of any use, but he was so attentive to his schooling that, in 1837, he commenced to teach school, and continued to do so for thirteen winters. In 1840 he was married to Harriet, daughter of John Burns, a native of this county, her father being a prominent farmer of Hayfield Township. They have four children—Emma, wife of Robert Anderson, of Meadville; Aurelia, wife of S. G. Curry, of Curry & Co., foundrymen; Ellen, wife of William Hoap, of Meadville, and H. M., Clerk in the Recorder’s office. In 1862 Mr. Dickson enlisted in Company H, One Hundred and Fiftieth Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, serving till the close of the war. In 1872 he was elected Register and Recorder of the county, and again in 1875, serving as a county officer for twelve years. He has been Secretary of the I. 0. 0. F. Lodge for thirty-five years. In 1879 he purchased his present foundry, which has been carried on under the firm name of Curry & Co. In politics our subject is a Republican.

History of Crawford County, Pennsylvania: containing a history of the county, its townships, towns, villages, schools, churches, industries, etc., portraits of early settlers and prominent men, biographies, history of Pennsylvania, statistical and miscellaneous matter, Chicago: Warner, Beers & Co., 1885, page 732.