Biography:  Jonas Franklin Dison of Itawamba County, Mississippi

Source:  Rowland, Dunbar.  The Official and Statistical Register of the 
State of Mississippi, 1908.  Nashville, Tenn.:  Press of the Brandon 
Printing Company, 1908.  Page 1053.

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ITAWAMBA COUNTY.

JONAS FRANKLIN DISON, of Eastman, was born in St. Clair County, Ala., and 
is the son of Thomas Brown Dison and his wife, Caroline (Funderburk) 
Dison.  His paternal ancestors came from Georgia to Alabama; his maternal 
from South Carolina.  When the subject of sketch was but two years old, 
his father died, leaving a wife and a family of five young children but 
poorly provided for.  After a nine years' battle with poverty his mother 
married J. P. Raburn, who proved a kind stepfather to her boys.  Mr. 
Dison was nearly grown up, however, before he was able to begin his 
education.  His family having moved to Mississippi, he first attended a 
country school in Itawamba County; in 1897 entered Oaklin College, and 
later, having secured means by teaching rural schools, he attended a 
college in Henderson, Tenn., during the years 1904-06, graduating in the 
last named year with the degree of B. S.  He has since pursued the 
occupation of a teacher in Itawamba County; was elected to the House of 
Representatives November 5, 1907.  Mr. Dison is a Democrat, a Missionary 
Baptist, a Mason and a Woodman of the World.  He is not married.