Dallas County AlArchives Biographies.....Dickinson, A. J. 1829 - living in 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
    REV. A. J. DICKINSON, pastor of the Baptist church in Selma, was born in
Louisa county, Va., December 25, 1864. His father was C. R. Dickinson, M. D.,
who was also born in Louisa county, Va., and was a son of Ralph Dickinson, also
a native of Virginia, and a descendant from English ancestors, who early came to
America, one member settling in Massachusetts, and one settling in Pennsylvania,
and from the one that settled in Pennsylvania Rev. Dickinson's ancestors
descended. The father of our subject was educated at Richmond college, Richmond,
Va., and graduated in medicine from the university of Pennsylvania. He practiced
medicine afterward and preached for Baptist churches the remainder of his life,
dying in 1879 in the fifty-sixth year of his age. He was married twice; the
first time to Miss Lucy J. Winston, of Virginia, by whom he had three children.
After the death of his first wife he married Miss Bettie Valentine of Virginia,
who belonged to a well known family. By this second wife he had five children,
all sons, as were those by his first wife. Rev. A. J. Dickinson was a son of a
second wife, who yet survives. He was educated at Richmond college, graduating
in 1886, with the degree of master of arts. He then took a theological course at
the Southern Baptist Theological seminary at Louisville, Ky., graduating from
this seminary in 1888. For two and a half years he was pastor of the Central
Baptist church at Memphis, Tenn., and had been for a short time pastor of the
Lee street Baptist church, Baltimore, Md. In October, 1889, he came to Selma,
Ala., and has since then been in charge of the Baptist church in this city. For
two years he was professor of mathematics in the Rugby school, at Louisville,
while in attendance there upon the Theological seminary. He married, in August,
1888, Miss Lucy B. Stone, of Culpeper, Va., by whom he has two children. Rev.
Mr. Dickinson is a master Mason and an Odd Fellow.



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from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 865-866
Published by
Brant & Fuller (1893)
Madison, WI

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