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Submitted: 6/2/22 • Approved: 6/20/22 • Last Updated: 6/23/22 • R1435002-G0-S3
Confederate States Army
Civil War Confederate
May 17, 1811 - December 13, 1898
Davidson Dickson was born in Trumbull County, Ohio in 1811 to John and Sarah Shields Dickson. He was the sixth of nine children.
He departed this life on 1898 in Van Buren, Arkansas.
His father died when he was fifteen years old and he continued to live with his mother until he was nineteen.
At the age of twenty-one he taught school two terms, and subsequently clerked in a store Poland for three years.
Afterwards he made a trip through the Southern States and on April 25, 1844 came to Van Buren where he established a grocery store and remained in business until 1846.
In 1846 the Whigs elected him surveyor of Crawford County and the follwoing term he was re-elected. From 1850 until 1853 he served as deputy surveyor.
In 1851 he married Elizabeth Newland. To this marriage was born five children, George, Albert, Belle Dora, Charles and Homer.
During the Civil War he served in the Confederate commissary department, his station being in Van Buren. In 1864 he began to clerk for C.C. Powell in his general store and in 1866 he became a partner, but a year later resumed clerking.
In 1874 he was again elected surveyor and received re-election each term.
He operated one of the best surveying outfits and the most copious field notes of any surveyor in Northwestern Arkansas.
He was the author of the map of Crawford County.
He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church South and a Master Mason.
Photo courtesy of Frances Allen Titsworth
Contributed on 6/2/22 by Billsully060
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