Solano County Biographies

THOMAS DICKSON

Transcribed by Kathy Sedler

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was born in Pennsylvania on June 4, 1800.  In 1804 he moved with his parents to 
Allegany county, New York, and remained there for about fifteen years, when they 
moved to Indiana.  In 1832 served as a soldier in the Black Hawk war; in 1835 
emigrated to Iowa, and in 1853 came to Diamond Springs, California, prosecuting 
mining for one year.  In the following year he forsook the gold region and 
removed to Solano county and rented a piece of land one mile in a north-easterly 
direction from where the city of Dixon now stands.  Mr. Dickson built the first 
house within the corporation limits of that city in the year 1855, which he has 
since enlarged.  He has engaged in farming ever since he settled in the county.  
Mr. D. married, in 1833, Miss J. P. Hood, a native of Knoxville, Tennessee, who 
was born December 13, 1813, by whom he has:  Elizabeth F., born February 1, 
1834; William B., born April 16, 1836; Martin A., born January 2, 1840; Henry 
A., born March 31, 1843; Nathan, born August 12, 1846; James, born February 13, 
1849, (since dead); Eva B., born July 14, 1853; and James, born December 4, 
1855, (since deceased).
 
History of Solano County � San Francisco, Cal. - Wood, Alley  & Co., East 
Oakland, pub 1879, pp  496