Denver-Pueblo County CO Archives Biographies.....Dixon, Thomas J. 1889 - 
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Author: Wilbur Fiske Stone (1918)

THOMAS J. DIXON.

    Thomas J. Dixon, devoting his attention to general law practice in Denver,
was born at Crisfield, Maryland, April 20, 1889, a son of N. Walter and Mary
Josephine Dixon, who are mentioned to greater extent on other pages of this
work. He began his education in the graded schools of Pueblo, Colorado,
following the removal of the family to the west. He afterward attended the
Central high school and Gulliford Academy and spent three years as a student in
St. John's Military Academy. He did not attend law school, preferring to study
law while bailiff of the Denver county court, for the actual experience gained
while there was of extreme value—more worth while than the training of the
schools. He successfully passed his bar examination in December, 1913, and
entered upon active practice. In the meantime he had become connected with
business interests, acting as assistant chemist for the Portland Cement Company,
while later he became identified with the Denver county court. He also conducted
business under the name of the Dixon Brokerage Company for more than a year,
handling various manufacturers' lines. He is now concentrating his efforts and
attention upon his law practice, which has steadily increased in volume and
importance, and he is today recognized as an able lawyer whose increasing powers
and ability are bringing him more and more prominently to the front. He served
as bailiff of the Denver county court during the four years' term of Judge John
R. Dixon upon the county court bench. The only other public office he has held
is that of director of the State Bureau of Child and Animal Protection, in which
capacity he has served for four years, and is now serving.

    In Pueblo, Colorado, on the 27th of December, 1913, Mr. Dixon was united in
marriage to Miss L. Ruth Collins, a daughter of Dr. D. W. and Lalla A. Collins,
of Pueblo, the former now deceased. He was one of the most prominent physicians
and surgeons in Pueblo, while Mrs. Collins has been very prominent in club and
social circles for a number of years. To Mr. and Mrs. Dixon have been born three
children: Eleanor Ruth, who is four years of age; David, two years old; and
Deborah, who is a year old. Mr. Dixon is a member of the Park Hill Club and is
identified with the Colorado Bar Association, the Denver Bar Association and the
Law Club of Denver. His political allegiance is given to the republican party.
He stands for those things which have value as effective forces in advancing
individual uplift and promoting the betterment of the world. His work on the
State Bureau of Child and Animal Protection shows his broad humanitarian spirit
and his cooperation can always be counted upon to further any interest for the
public good.


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HISTORY OF COLORADO

ILLUSTRATED
VOLUME II
CHICAGO
THE S. J. CLARKE PUBLISHING COMPANY
1918

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