Barton County, Missouri Biographies-John M. DICKENSON

History Of Hickory, Polk, Cedar, Dade And Barton Counties, 
Missouri, 1889.  Published by Goodspeed. Pages 882

John M. Dickenson, general merchant of Minden, Mo., and the successor to 
William A. Frazier since September, 1888, was born in McDonough County, 
Ill., in 1856, and is a son of James E. and Emma J. (Jackson) Dickenson, 
who were born in Kentucky and were married in Illinois, where they made 
their home until 1880, when they came to Henry County, Mo., and in 1884 
to Barton County, where they are still living, earnest members of the 
Christian Church.  The father was born in Green County, Ky., in 1833.  
John M. Dickenson is their only child, and received a good education in 
the common schools of his native county.  In 1880 he came with his parents
to Missouri and, as above stated, engaged in his present business in 
September, 1888, his stock of goods being valued at $2,500.  He is a 
Democrat, and voted for Cleveland in 1884.  He belongs to the K.or P., 
Minden Lodge No. 135, and is a member of the Christian Church.  In 1888 
he was married to Miss Belle, a daughter of William and Angeline Winter, 
of Tennessee, who came to Southwest Missouri when Mrs. Dickenson was a 
child.  Her parents are now living, and reside on a farm in Barton County. 
The father served four years as a private in the United States army.  Our 
subject's paternal grandfather, Charles Dickenson, was a Scotchman; and his 
maternal grandfather, Hon. John E. Jackson, was a Kentuckian, and a 
prominent and well-known attorney of McDonough County, Ill., for many years.
He was a member of the Illinois Legislature from that county, and died there
in 1878.  He was an active Jacksonian Democrat.  His wife died in 1880.

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