Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Dickey, Lyle Alexander March 26, 1868 - 
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Source: The Story of Hawaii and Its Builders. Published by Honolulu Star Bulletin, Ltd., Territory of Hawaii, 1925
Author: Edited by George F. Nellist

LYLE ALEXANDER DICKEY, Jurist. Grandson of a former chief justice of the 
Supreme Court of Illinois on his father’s side, and of one of the early 
missionaries to Hawaii on his mother’s side, it was only natural that Judge 
Lyle A. Dickey should combine a career as jurist with exceeding interest and 
activity in missionary work in the Territory.
  Born at Whitehall, Ill., on March 26, 1868, the son of Charles Henry and 
Anne Elizabeth (Alexander) Dickey, his paternal grandfather, Col. T. Lyle 
Dickey, was chief justice of the Illinois supreme court at that time, and his 
maternal grandfather, Rev. William P. Alexander, was one of the first 
missionaries to Hawaii.
  Judge Dickey accompanied his parents to Hawaii in 1871. He attended Yale 
University, receiving an A.B. degree in 1891. He attended the Yale Law School 
for two years and was granted the degree LL.B. by Chicago College of Law in 
1894. He practiced law and acted as clerk to the Chicago Corporation Counsel 
in 1894 and 1895. Then he returned to the Islands and for two years served as 
clerk in the law office of the late Francis M. Hatch, leaving for a position 
in the office of the territorial attorney-general, where he remained two years 
before starting to practice for himself.
  He was appointed second district magistrate of Honolulu in 1900 and served 
two years. On July 13, 1912, President William Howard Taft appointed Judge 
Dickey to the bench for the circuit court of the fifth district of the 
Territory, Kauai. He served until Nov. 30, 1919.
  Judge Dickey’s missionary tradition found vent in service as the treasurer 
of the Hawaiian Mission Children’s Society for almost 30 years, from 1896 to 
1923. He was also president of the Kauai Chamber of Commerce in 1920.
  In addition to membership in the Bar Association of Hawaii, the American Bar 
Association, and the Kauai Chamber of Commerce, Judge Dickey also is a member 
of the Sons of the American Revolution, the Hawaiian Historical Society, the 
Hawaiian Mission Children’s Society and the University Club of Honolulu, and 
the Yale Club. He is a Republican.


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