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in Caswell county, N.C. In 1830 he was a representative in the legislature; and in 1836 in the state senate. He was again in the lower house in 1841; and in 1843 was elected lieutenant-governor of Kentucky. In

1852-55 he was United States senator to fill a vacancy. He died April 23, 1876, in Henderson, Ky.Dixon, Arthur, business president, states27, 1837, in Ireland. eighteen years of age he located in Philadelphia, Pa. j in 1858 moved to Pittsburg; and in 1861 setChicago, 111. tled in About 1862 he established a general teaming business in Chicawhich gradually go, developed into one of the largest enterprises of its kind in the United States; and since incorporation in its 1880 he has been president. During the civil war he was active in raising troops; was liberal in contributing his means for their equipment. In 1866-91 he was a member of the city council from the second ward; declined further election; and was president of the council in 1874-80. He was a member of the twenty-seventh general assembly of Illinois. He has been president of the Irish-republican club of Chicago; president of the National Irish republican convention of 1880; and for over twenty years has been a member of the state and county republican committees. He was a director of the World's Columbian exposition; and was for many years a director of the Metropolitan national bank of Chicago, 111. Dixon, Edwin Saunders, lawyer, business president, was born Feb. 14, 1848, in Philadelphia, ]?a. He was educated in the public and private schools of Philadelphia, Pa. In 1870 he began the practice of real estate, commercial and corporation law. In 1898 he became president of the trust company of North America; is still a member of the board of directors of that corporation; is president and director of the Iselesboro land improvement company of Maine; a director of the Lumbermen's insurance company, and of various other corporations. He is a member of the council of the academy of natural sciences of Philadelphia chairman and treasurer of the Iiudwick institute secretary and treasurer of the Grandon institution; and is trustee for several important estates' and council for many large mercantile, manufacturing and insurance companies. Dixon, Frank Haigh, educator, author, was born Oct. 8, 1869, in Winona, Minn. Since 1903 he has been professor of economics at Dartmouth college. He is the author of State Railroad Control. comedian, Dixon, George Washington, comic singer, was born about 1808. He

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parts at the amphitheater in Albany, N.Y. Thence he went to New York, Philadelphia and other large cities, singing his famous songs. The Coal-Black Rose and Zip Coon, to admiring throngs. He died in March, 1861. Dixon, George William, lawyer, business man, was bom in Chicago, 111. He was educated in the public schools and at the West Division high school of Chicago; in 1889 graduated with the degree of A.B. from the Northwestern university; and in 1892 received the degree of LL.B. from the law school of that great institution of learning. For five years he was engaged in the practice of law; but is now connected with the Arthur Dixon transfer company of Chicago as secretary and treasurer. He is colonel in the Illinois national guard; and was a member on the staif of Governor Richard Yates with rank of colonel. He is a member of the Illinois state senate for the first and second wards of Chicago. Dixon, J., lawyer, jurist. He is a lawyer of Trenton, N.J.; and now associate justice of the state supreme court of New Jersey. Dixon, James, lawyer, congressman, United States senator, was bom Aug. 5, 1814, in _

Enfield, Conn. He was a member of the house in the Connecticut legislature in 1837, 1838 and 1844; and of the state senate in 1849 and 1854. In 1845-49 he was a representative from Connecticut to the twentyninth and thirtieth congresses; and in 185769 he was United States senator. He died March 27, 1873, in Hartford, Conn. Dixon, James Main, educator, author, was bom April 20, 1856, in Scotland. Since 1892 he has been a professor of English literature in

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the author of A Dictionary of Idiomatic English Phrases. Dixon, James Payson, educator, college president, was born in September, 1842, in West Lebanon, Maine. He is president of Colby academy of New London, N.H. Dixon, Jonathan, lawyer, jurist. In 18751902 he was an associate justice of the supreme court of New Jersey. Dixon, Joseph, inventor, was born Jan. 18, 1799, in Marblehead, Mass. He was entirely self-educated, and early showed unusual mechanical ingenuity, inventing a machine for

cutting files before he was twenty-one. He originated the process of transferring on stone, now used everywhere by lithographers; and invented the process of photo-lithography. He was also the originator of the steel-melting business in the United States. He died June 14, 1869, in Jersey City, N.J. Dixon, Joseph, merchant, jurist, congressman, was bom April 29, 1828, in Greene county, N.C. He has been a magistrate and judge of the county court; and was a member of the state legislature in 1868-69. In 1869-71 he was a representative from North Carolina to the forty-first congress to fill a vacancy.