Dickson, Archimedes C.

Born: 1814-XX-XX Bourbon County, Kentucky

Died: 1894-02-15 Springfield, Illinois

Alternate name: Dixon

Archimedes C. Dickson was a clerk, merchant, deputy sheriff, U.S. Marshal, and Mason. He married while living in Kentucky, and he and his wife, Matilda, had at least two children before moving to Illinois around 1835 or 1836. He worked for a time as a clerk for Dunlap Brothers, then in the wheat and lumber business. He became a deputy sheriff a few years later and, through this position, befriended Stephen A. Douglas. By 1850, he was living in Jacksonville, Illinois, with his wife and their seven children and owned $1,600 in real estate. In 1851, representatives in the Illinois Senate elected him as that body's enrolling and engrossing clerk. In 1854, he became marshal for the United States District Court of the Southern District of Illinois. He served in this position until 1858. By 1860, he was working as a lumber merchant in Jacksonville and owned $6,000 in real estate and $600 in personal property. He also later worked as a lumber merchant in St. Louis, Missouri.

Proceedings of a Court of Inquiry Convened at Washington, D.C., November 9, 1868, Part II (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1868), 536-37; Abraham Lincoln to Daniel D. Page and Henry D. Bacon; Lyman Trumbull to Abraham Lincoln; U.S. Census Office, Seventh Census of the United States (1850), Jacksonville, Morgan County, Illinois, 172; Illinois Daily Journal (Springfield), 7 January 1851, 3:3; U.S. Census Office, Eighth Census of the United States (1860), Jacksonville, Morgan County, IL, 21; Illinois Statewide Death Index, Pre-1916, Sangamon County, 15 February 1894, Illinois State Archives, Springfield, IL; Gravestone, Oak Ridge Cemetery, Springfield, IL; Daily Illinois State Journal (Springfield), 16 February 1894, 5:4.