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BIOGRAPHIES
Source:
HISTORY of
BEAVER COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA
and
Its Centennial Celebration
By Rev. Joseph H(enderson) Bausman, A. M.
Member American Historical Society of
Pennsylvania of Western Pennsylvania
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In Two Volumes
VOLUME I
Publ.
The Knickerbocker Press
New York
1904
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HON. OLIVER JAMES
DICKEY, the eldest son of John and Elvira Adams Dickey,
was born Apr. 6, 1823, at Old Brighton, now Beaver Falls, Pa.
He received his education at the Beaver Academy and Dickinson
College, Carlisle, Pa., closing his classical career one year
short of graduation. He entered the law office of James
Allison, Esq., one of the oldest leading lawyers of the
county, and was admitted to the bar of Beaver County, Nov. 26,
1845. In 1846 he went to Lancaster, Pa., and was in the
office of his father's life-long friend, Thaddeus Stevens,
whose partner he soon became. This partnership
continued until his election to the office of district attorney.
Upon the death of Mr. Stevens in 1868, he was elected to
fill his unexpired term in Congress, and was elected to the two
following terms. He was a man of large views and
abilities, and an ardent Republican of the Stevens
school. He died greatly esteemed, at Lancaster, April 21,
1876.
Source: History of Beaver County, Pa. and its Centennial
Celebration - 1904 - Page 347 |
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WARREN S. DUNGAN,
a grandson of Levi Dungan, who was probably the first
settler of Beaver County, was born Sept. 12, 1822, at Frankfort
Springs, where Levi Dungan had located in 1772. He
was educated at Frankfort Academy, and studied law with
Colonel Calvin Miller of Panola, Miss., and with Roberts
& May in Beaver. March 10, 1856, he was admitted to
the bar of Beaver County, and at once removed to Chariton, Iowa,
where he commenced to practise, and where he still resides.
He was elected on the Republican ticket in 1861 as a member of
the Senate of his State, but at the outbreak of the Rebellion,
he resigned, enlisted as a private, recruited a company of which
he was chosen captain, and took the field. Later he was
commissioned Lieutenant-Colonel of the 34th Iowa Infantry, and
was made Brevet-Colonel of United States Volunteers for gallant
conduct at Mobile, Ala. In 1872 he was a delegate to the
Republican National Convention, and in the following election
was a presidential elector. Twice since he has been in the
Iowa Legislature as a representative, and in 1887 was elected to
the Senate; and he has been twice a delegate to the General
Assembly of the Presbyterian Church, in 1875 at Toledo, Ohio,
and in 1885 at Cincinnati, Ohio.
Source: History of Beaver County, Pa. and its Centennial
Celebration - 1904 - Page 349 |
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SYLVESTER DUNHAM,
a native of New England, was in his day a prominent practitioner
at the Beaver bar, to which he was admitted June 2, 1817.
He was a Whig in politics, and a good stump speaker. He
died in Rochester, Pa., May 24, 1867, aged seventy-four.
Source: History of Beaver County, Pa. and its Centennial
Celebration - 1904 - Page 343 |
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