Dickinson, David

Born: 1806-07-13 Greensburg, Kentucky

Died: 1879-10-05 Topeka, Kansas

Flourished: 1845-12-06 Lacon, Illinois

Dickinson graduated from law school in Richmond, Virginia, and moved to Springfield, Illinois, when he was twenty-three. During the Black Hawk War, Dickinson served in the same company as Abraham Lincoln. On December 3, 1833, Dickinson married Mary McKibbin in Springfield, Illinois, and the couple had nine children. Dickinson was a deputy sheriff of Sangamon County. In 1836, he became a minister and officiated at the Methodist Episcopal Church in Springfield until 1840. In 1850, he moved to Iowa, where he practiced medicine; but in 1860, he settled in Kansas for his own health reasons, and by 1860 he was living in Kansas Territory, where he was a teacher and minister.

Charles S. Gleed, ed. Kansas Memorial, A Report of the Old Settlers' Meeting Held at Bismark Grove, Kansas, September 15th and 16th, 1879 (Kansas City, MO, 1879), 221; Muster Roll of Captain Elijah Iles’ Company of Mounted Volunteers; Sangamo Journal (Springfield, IL), 24 August 1833, 3:4; 7 December 1833, 3:6; U.S. Census Office, Seventh Census of the United States (1850), Des Moines County, IA, 468; U.S. Census Office, Eighth Census of the United States (1860), Jefferson County, KS Terr., 46; Minutes of the Annual Conferences of the Methodist Episcopal Church, Spring Conferences of 1880 (New York: Phillips & Hunt, 1880), 57-58.