Will County IL Archives Biographies.....Dixon, George 1832 - 
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Author: Portrait & Bio Album, 1890

GEORGE DIXON, a representative farmer and stock-raiser of DuPage Township, is 
pleasantly located on section 32. His fine estate comprises two hundred and 
forty acres, a part of which is well-developed land upon which a full line of 
substantial buildings have been erected and such other improvements made as 
are usually the work of a man of enterprise and good judgment. Mr. Dixon is a 
self-made man who labored long and arduously to gain a good home and is now 
enjoying a merited reward for his efforts. The natal day of our subject was 
Christmas Day, 1832, and his birthplace Lincolnshire, England. His parents 
were Robert and Susan Dixon who lived upon a farm and reared their son amid 
its toils and limited advantages. His education was but meagre, as the 
opportunities he had were not equal to those of American youth of the same 
class even at that date, but observation and native intelligence have largely 
overcome the deficiency and he is to-day a well-informed man. In 1851 young 
Dixon emigrated to America, leaving Liverpool on the sailer "Underwriter," 
which reached New York after an ocean voyage of seven weeks and three days. 
The young man came direct to the Prairie State, found employment as a farm 
laborer in Cook County and worked by the month fourteen years. He then bought 
a tract of land in Newaygo County, Mich., and was identified with the farming 
interests of that section several years. He finally purchased the land he now 
occupies, renting it out three years and then removing hither. On September 
14, 1869, the marriage rites were celebrated between Mr. Dixon and Miss Mary 
J. Burgess, who was born in England, October 12, 1840. She is a daughter of 
Heaton and Jane (Clark) Burgess, who emigrated to America in 1867, and made 
their home in Will County, Ill., for a number of years. They removed to Cook 
County, where the father died in 1884 and the mother still lives. They had 
nine children, of whom the living are, Mrs. Dixon; John and Samuel who reside 
in this county; William, George H., Charles R. and Thomas E., who live in Cook 
County; and Betsey, wife of Harry Pollard, of Pike County. Mr. Dixon is a 
Democrat, but usually votes for the man rather than the strict party 
principle. He is a reliable citizen, an enterprising farmer, a kind neighbor, 
and receives his just share in the respect of those who know him, while the 
wife of his bosom has her friends among them to whom her virtues have endeared 
her.

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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