 1843 - 1913 (69 years)
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| Name |
Livingston Thomas Dickason |
| Birth |
25 Nov 1843 |
La Rue, Marion Co., OH  |
| Gender |
Male |
 Military |
Civil War |
- Pvt. Livingston Dickason served in the American Civil War with the 4th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Company H, which organized on April 25, 1861. He is listed in the Marion County History of 1883 as Pvt. Livingston Dickinson but rose to the rank of Colonel before the end of the conflict. His two brothers, John and Wesley, were killed in the Civil War with the 96th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Company E. His cousin, Samuel Dickason, died of typhoid during the Civil War. Livingston first enlisted on August 6, 1862, and when that term was up, he re-enlisted.
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| Death |
22 Mar 1913 |
Naples, Italy |
- Died while on a world tour
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| Burial |
Graceland Cemetery _ Chicago, Cook Co., IL [1] |
| Person ID |
I1515 |
Main |
| Family 1 |
Syble M. Tinkham, b. 1849 d. 1891 (Age 42 years) |
| Marriage |
29 May 1866 |
Montgomery Twp, Marion County, OH |
| Children |
| | 1. Nettie Dickason |
| + | 2. Clara Belle Dickason, b. 1867, Danville, Vermilion Co., IL d. 13 Jul 1894 (Age 27 years) |
| | 3. Clinton Dewitt Dickason, b. 1868 d. 1868 (Age 0 years) |
| | 4. Katie Dickason, b. 1870 d. 1870 (Age 0 years) |
| + | 5. Adah Dell Dickason, b. 1876, Danville, Vermilion Co., IL d. 1947 (Age 71 years) |
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| Family ID |
F79 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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 | Birth - 25 Nov 1843 - La Rue, Marion Co., OH |
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 | Marriage - 29 May 1866 - Montgomery Twp, Marion County, OH |
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 | Marriage - 14 Sep 1892 - Chicago, Cook Co., IL |
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 | Death - 22 Mar 1913 - Naples, Italy |
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| Notes |
- "L. T. Dickason, the present mayor of the city of Danville, is a native of Marion County, Ohio, where most of his early life was spent. In 1861 he entered the Federal Army. In the war of 1861-1865, enlisting in Company H, 4th Ohio, three months service. He participated in many of the heavy battles, being engaged at Shiloh, Perryville, Stone River, the siege of Corinth, and Battle of Chickamauga, being severely wounded in this last named engagement; on account of which he was discharged from further service, though he had served nearly his full term of enlistment. In 1867 he came to Vermillion County, where he has since resided, being one among the most active business men of the county. For a time he was engaged in buying and shipping grain, being located at Fairmont. Moving from there to Danville, he soon became very popular politically and is now enjoying his "third term" of Mayorship. He is also very extensively engaged in the coal and timber trade, in company with Charles L. English. They give in employment to about four hundred men, their timber contracts with the different railroad companies amounting to hundreds of thousands of dollars per year and extending over several states . . . ."
Among some of the other and specific accomplisments of Livingston T. Dickason was to organize the "Danville Guards" in February, 1876, and of which he was captain.
In 1882 during one of his terms as mayor, he founded the Danville Public Library, and in 1895 he was one of the three trustrees of the Soldiers and Sailors Home at Quincy, Illinois. One of his principal ventures was the building of a large amount of the mileage of the Monon Route Railroad.
In his declining years Livingston T. Dickason moved from Danville to a new and quite pretentious home that he built in the then newly developed suburban area in South Chicago. The home is no longer standing.
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