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Lawrenccvillc Preparatory School, and grad­ uated therefrom m 1904, class orator and honor student. H e was a member of the foot­ ball team and the debating term, and of the I’hilomathcan Society. Matriculating in the academic department o f Y a le College in the fall o f 1904. he graduated in 190S. having taken part in interclass debating, held member­ ship in the U niversity Glee Club, and in the Zeia Psi fraternity. In the fall o f J908 he became a student in the law dc[>artment of the U niversity of Pennsylvania, and graduated therefrom in 19 10. W hile in that institution he was a mcmlwr of the Sharswood Club and editor of the cla.ss report. H e entered upon the practice o f law in the fall o f 19 10 in the offices o f M. J. Martin and Ralph W. Reimcr, Scranton. Pa., and has since 0|>cncd law offices in Berw ick, having formed a partnership with his father, S. W. D kkson, for the general practice o f law, on Jan. 1, 19 12 . M r. Dickson is interested in the building of the new hospital, acting as secrctaiy of the board o f trustees through the period o f its construction, and is sccrctar)' of the Bcravick I.4ind and Improvement Company. H e is a member of the lodge of the Knights o f Malta. D a v i d C . D i c k s o n was b o m at Berwick une 6. 1 ^ 2 . He was graduated from the Jcravick high school in the year 19 10, and the ollowing year attended I^ifayctte College, transferring to Ihc scientific department o f Y ale U niversity in the fall o f I 9 t>i from which institution he w as graduated in the nwnih o f June, 19 14 . with the degree o f bachelor o f science. W hile at Y a le M r. Dick­ son was the editor in chief of the " E li Book," w hkh was named after the founder of the University. KU Y ale, the book being a yearly record of the activities o f undergraduates, giv­ ing complete details with reference to the various athletic, literary and class organiza­ tions. H e playwl on the all< lass baseball team. A fte r graduation he left fo r M arsh­ field. Oregon, to take a jiosilion with the C. A. Smith I.umlier Company, wilh mills located at Marshfield, Oregon, where he expects to lie {>cniiancntly located. Archibald Dickson, the elder, great-grand­ father o f Sterling W. Dickson. wa.s a native o f Kelso, R oxb u ^ h sh irc. Scotland, and w as a shoemaker, lie w as the father o f four chil­ dren, Robert, Jan e, Elizabeth and Archibald. Archibald Dickson, the younger, enlarged ujion his father's trade and manufactured shoes upon a large scale all o f his life, d)nng at the age o f fifty. H e left a w ife. Elizabeth (W aite) Dickson, and ten children: A rchi­

bald. Jam es. M aojafet. Robert. Janet, John. Alexander. Jessie, W illiam and Elspcth. Jam es Dickson, father o f Sterling W. Dick­ son. was l)om in Kelso, Scotland. Oct. 23, 18 2 1. and received his early education in the noniial school al Glasgow. In 1843 he went as a missionar)* to the W est Indies, where he remained fo r ten years. A t Brownsville, the ])oint o f his mission in (he Island o f Jam aica, w as stationed Rev. W arren Carlisle, whose daughter. M ary, w as a teacher in the mission school, fn the course of their work the young missionary and the girl teacher fell in love, and were married June 9 ,18 4 4. 'fliese children came to bless their home: Elizabeth A gnes was bom Ju n e 29, 18 4 7; Mar)- Carlisle. Iwm Feb. I, 1849, is now the widow o f C . N . M cF a rrcn; .Agnes D. was bom Ju ly 8, 18 5 0 : W arrand C.. bom Jan . 7. 1852, and Jam es Ira-ing, born Jan . i, 1853, died young. In 1853 M r. Dickson sailed fo r Am erica, and on the voyage the w ife died and w as buried at sea, at the age o f twenty-six. T h e fam ily hcing hrokcn up, the father sent the children to Scotland, and they were educated in (hat coun­ try and in France. H e landed .it Philadelphia a fte r a long quarantine owing to fever, and remained in that city fo r some years, being first made associate pastor of the Fourth P re s­ byterian Church a fte r his ordination into the ministr)', Sept. 13, 1854. H e then went to H arrisbum . P a., and while there m arried Jeanctta Hoffman Duval, daughter o f M i­ chael Duval, a native o f Normandy. France, and Eleanor (H atfield-M aize) Dui-al, a n a ­ tive-born American. B y this union there w ere seven children: Ellen Duval, bom N ov. 2 7, 1856. is unnurried and residing in B e r w ic k; William Sterling has been previously men­ tioned; A lexander Whilden, bom Dec. 12 . 1859. a merchant o f Williamsport, m arried Sallic Freas, by whom he had six children, F^lna J ., Jam es H., Freas, Pauline. A lexan d er W. and Dorothy (w ho died in in fan cy), and his second w ife w as Martha H elm rich; C on­ way Pheljis W'ing, bom Dec. 20, 1862. a resi­ dent o f Scranton, and trai'cling auditor of the Connell Mine & Lum ber Company, m arried Sylvia Dicffenbach and has one child, E le a n o r: Jam es, bom Oct. 7. 1863. real estate broker, residing in Milton, Pa., married Annie B. L o w and had one child. M yron L ., who died in December, 1 9 1 1; Duval is mentioned else­ where, in the sketch o f his son, C lark L on g D ickson: A rchiJuld, bom March 19, 1867. member of the Baldwin-Ziegler polar exjiedition o f 1904, is now located in P o rtb n d. Oregon, where he conducts a .shorthand