Dick, Alonso D.

Flourished: Wisconsin

Alonso D. Dick was a state legislator and member of the Brothertown (Brotherton) Indian Nation. While living in New York, Dick married Lureanett Crosley, with whom he had four children. In 1834 or 1835, Dick and his family joined other Brothertown Indians in emigrating west from their lands in New York to the Wisconsin Territory. He, along with his fellow Indians, settled in a township known originally as Deansborough but also as Manchester in what would become Calumet County. In 1849, Dick represented Manchester and Calumet County in the Wisconsin State Assembly.

J. D. Beck, comp., The Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin (Madison, WI: Democratic Printing, 1909), 910; W. DeLoss Love, Samson Occom and the Christian Indians of New England (Boston and Chicago: Pilgrim, 1899), 325, 328, 344, 355.