Joe Price Dixson, Navarro Co., TX., then Caddo Parish, Louisiana

Submitted by Mike Miller
Date: 1999-2000




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Joe Price Dixson, finance commissioner of Shreveport. was for many 

years identified with the railroad service, and when he resigned was 

general agent of the Shreveport Division of the Texas & Pacific.



Mr. Dixson was born in Navarro County, Texas, August 21, 1878, the 

youngest of ten children, and representing a family that settled in 

Texas in 1846.



His father, the late A. J. Dixson, served in the Confederate army, 

and was also a forty-niner, having headed two successful expeditions 

to California, where major operations in mining were engaged in during 

the early days of the gold rush. In 1886 the family moved to Fort 

Worth, where Joe Price Dixson received his public school education.



In 1900 Mr. Dixson took up railroading, in the operating department, 

beginning his career with the Rock Island Railway, as telegraph 

operator, and subsequently with the Frisco.  His longest period of 

service was with the Texas & Pacific Railway. For eight years he was 

located at Dallas, and in January, 1917, was transferred to Shreveport

 as local freight agent in charge of station service and terminal 

operation.  After three and a half years in that capacity he was 

appointed general agent in charge of traffic and transportation for 

the Shreveport Division.



Leaving the railroad service on February 1, 1921, Mr. Dixson engaged 

in the insurance business and became the successful district manager 

for the Praetorians of Dallas, Texas.  This business he gave up in 

November, 1922, to assume his official duties with the City of 

Shreveport, following his election at the regular municipal election 

of that year as commissioner of finance.  His office, which handles 

all the finances of the city, ranks under the commission form of 

government next to that of mayor, and Mr. Dixson is ex-officio vice 

mayor, presiding in the absence of the mayor.



Mr. Dixson is a charter member of the Kiwanis Club of Shreveport, 

organized in 1921, and is chairman of the Public Affairs Committee.  

He is a Scottish Rite Mason.



On December 11, 1901, at Dallas, Texas, he married Miss Margery Nance.

  Her father, S. A. Nance, was president of the S. A. Nance Company, 

one of the heading wholesale shoe industries of the South at that time.





NOTE:  A signed photograph/painting accompanies this narrative in the 

referenced source.



A History of Louisiana, (vol. 2), pp. 115-116, by Henry E. Chambers.  

Published by The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, 1925.