Gunnison County CO Archives Biographies.....Dickinson, W. Scott  1845 - ?
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Author: Progressive Men of Western Colorado

      Having spent a considerable portion of his earlier life as a lumberman in

the more unsettled parts of Maine and Pennsylvania, W. Scott Dickinson, of

Pitkin, Gunnison county, was measurably prepared for frontier life when he came

to the Rocky mountains and cast his lot with this section of our country, and

had some knowledge of the impulses and springs of action of people who dwell

much in the presence of nature and are seeking to extort from her the hidden

treasures which she is always willing to give up when she is properly

interrogated.  He had experience in some of their hardships and inconveniences,

and knew how to sympathize with and take his place among them in a way to be of

service.  He was born at Wakefield, province of New Brunswick, in 1845, and is

the son of William and Louisa J. (Estabrook) Dickinson, who were also native

there.  The father was a lumberman and died in 1847, aged thirty-three, two

years after the birth of his son.  The mother lived until May 27, 1893, when she

passed away, at the age of eighty-five.  William was reared and educated in his

native county, and when he was seventeen abandoned the farm work in which he had

hitherto been engaged and went into the woods of Maine to follow lumbering as a

business.  He remained there three years, then moved to Pennsylvania and

followed the same vocation until 1880, when he came to Colorado and located at

Pitkin, where he has since resided and been actively engaged in business.  Until

1884 he was employed in getting out ties for the railroad companies under

contract.  He then started a second-hand store, and found the business so

profitable that he enlarged his enterprise to cover dealings in new goods, and

now carries on an extensive and profitable trade in both, being one of the

leading business men of the town.  He has also been prominent and influential in

the civil and social life of the community, serving as mayor of the town five

terms, and being recognized as one of the molders and movers of public sentiment

in all lines of general interest.  He is a Republican in politics, with a

potential place in the counsels of his party, and one of its most loyal and

active supporters.  Mr. Dickinson was first married in 1871 to Miss Adeline

More, who bore him three children, Vernon, Louisa J. and George.  His second

marriage occurred in 1878, and was with Miss Sarah A. Ingram.  They had one

daughter, Edith V., who died in June, 1902. 

Additional Comments:
From Progressive Men of Western Colorado.  Chicago:  A.W. Bowen & Co., 1905

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