Will County IL Archives Biographies.....Dixon, John T 1858 - 
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Author: Portrait & Bio Album, 1890

JOHN T. DIXON, who now holds the official position of Supervisor of Florence 
Township, has been identified with the agricultural interests of this county 
since 1869. He was born in Wilmington Township, June 23, 1858, and spent the 
first six years of his life there. He then accompanied his parents to Grundy 
County, in that part of the Prairie State sojourning a few years. Farming was 
chosen by him for a life work, and well has he demonstrated his fitness for 
this line of employment. In Emmet County, Iowa, he owns one hundred and fifty-
six acres of fine land that he rents to a tenant, while himself occupying and 
operating rented land in this county. The one hundred and twenty acres on 
which he carries on his enterprise is carefully managed and well repays the 
efforts of the operator. It is located on section 15. The immediate 
progenitors of Mr. Dixon were John and Elizabeth (Singleton) Dixon, natives of 
England, who came to America and to this State early in the '50s. Their family 
comprised nine sons and daughters, of whom our subject was the second in order 
of birth. He has served as Clerk of Florence Township three years, and the 
estimation in which he is held by his fellow-citizens is shown by the fact 
that in the spring of 1890 they elected him to the office of Supervisor. He is 
a Republican of the deepest dye. His character is an honorable one, and his 
reputation admirable. On February 15, 1888, Mr. Dixon led to the hymeneal 
altar Miss Grace Morey, an estimable and educated young lady who makes of 
their abiding place a home indeed. She was born in Florence Township, and is a 
daughter of Smith R. and Louise (Smith) Morey, natives of Pennsylvania and 
Illinois respectively. Mr. and Mrs. Dixon have one son, a charming infant, 
named Ralph M.

Additional Comments:
Portrait and Biographical Album of Will County, Illinois, Containing Full Page 
Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens 
of the County; Chicago: Chapman Bros., 1890

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