Biography extracted from History of Sauk County, Wisconsin Chicago: Western Historical Company, published 1880.

Baraboo:

James Dykins, was born near Elmira, N.Y, Jan. 1, 1820; served an apprenticeship at carriage-making at Williamsport, Penn., and then returned to New York; in 1844, went to Pittsburgh, Penn., and from there to St. Louis; from the latter city he emigrated , in the summer of 1845, to Freeport, Ill., where he was married, in 1846, to Eleanor Thatcher; in 1849, he came to Baraboo and has lived here ever since, engaged in wagon-making. Mr. and Mrs. Dykins have four children - John, Charles W., Emma Jane and Eddie J., all living; the eldest son and the daughter reside in Chicago.

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