Bio of DICKINSON, Hon. Horace D., Hennepin Co., MN
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EXTRACTED FROM: History of Minneapolis, Gateway to the Northwest; 
Chicago-Minneapolis, The S J Clarke Publishing Co, 1923; Edited by: Rev. 
Marion Daniel Shutter, D.D., LL.D.; Volume I - Shutter (Historical); 
volume II - Biographical; volume III - Biographical
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HON. HORACE D. DICKINSON (Horace Danforth Dickinson) - Vol III, pg 168
Hon. Horace D. Dickinson, judge of the fourth judicial district, is widely
recognized as one of the most prominent citizens of Minneapolis and is perhaps
the best known orator in the state. A native of New York, he was born near
Ogdensburg, St. Lawrence county, and when a young lad accompanied his parents on
their removal to Minnesota, the family home being established in Minneapolis.
Consequently he received his early educational training in the public schools of
this city and in due time was graduated from the Central high school. He then
enrolled in the University of Minnesota for an academic course, before the
completion of which he took up the study of law. The LL. B. degree was conferred
upon him by the University of Minnesota Law School in 1890 and the same year he
was admitted to the bar. Through the succeeding decade he was actively engaged
in practice as an attorney of this city and in a profession where advancement
depends entirely upon individual merit and ability, he achieved an enviable
measure of success. In 1900 he was elected to the bench and he has remained
thereon throughout the intervening period of twenty-three years, his repeated
reelections standing in incontrovertible evidence of his ability and power in
judicial office. He has been offered the republican nomination for congress and
also other political honors, but has always declined in order that he might
devote his undivided attention to his duties on the bench. He is dean of the
judges in Minneapolis and acts as chairman of the judicial body.
Horace D. Dickinson was united in marriage to Miss Marian E. Rice of New York
and they have become parents of a daughter, Margaret Jane. The wife and mother
is a woman of superior culture and refinement and is socially prominent.
Since 1890 Judge Dickinson has been identified with the Masonic fraternity, in
which he has attained the honorary thirty-third degree. At the time that degree
was conferred upon him he was the youngest man in the United States thus
honored. A man of marked oratorical power, he has become well known on the
lecture platform throughout Minnesota and has delivered many addresses at the
Masonic consistory. He is a pioneer member of the Benevolent Protective Order of
Elks and active in the affairs of the Knights of Pythias. While attending the
University of Minnesota he became affiliated with Phi Kappa Psi, a national
college fraternity of high standing. As a public-spirited citizen he holds
membership in the Old Commercial Club and socially he is identified with the
Minneapolis Athletic and Minikahda clubs. Judge Dickinson is one of the most
popular citizens of this community-capable, learned, industrious and studious,
he has gained a most enviable reputation for his work on the bench and enjoys in
an unusual degree the confidence and esteem not only of the representatives of
the legal profession but of the general public as well.