George W. Dixon of Stratham, NH Biography from A History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire (1915)

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Source: A History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire and Representative Citizens
         by Charles A. Hazlett, Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., Chicago, Ill, 1915

Page 1081 contained a portrait of George W. Dixon.

Page 1083

   GEORGE W. DIXON is a well known resident of the town of Stratham,
Rockingham County, N. H.  He is engaged in farming and dairying, owning
two farms, one of one hundred acres and the other of twenty-two acres.  In
addition he is engaged in the wood and lumber business, and also represents
three insurance companies.  Mr. Dixon was born on Seavey's Island in the
State of Maine, Feb. 23, 1860, and is a son of Samuel C. and Lucy M.
(Prior) Dixon.
   Samuel C. Dixon was a native of Maine, the year of his birth being 1820.
He was a ship carpenter and sawyer by trade, and followed that line for a
period of twenty years.  He then moved to Rockingham County, N. H., and
took up farming operations in the town of Stratham, at which he continued
until his death.  His marriage with Lucy M. Prior resulted in the following
issue: George W.; Ellen, who was twice married, first to Daniel W. Hodg-
don and later to Samuel L. Rand; Clifford S.; and Fannie, wife of William
L. Moss.
   George W. Dixon attended the public schools of Stratham and from his
boyhood days worked on the home farm with his father, with whom he con-
tinued until the latter's death.  They followed farming and lumbering, and
after his father's death George W. Dixon bought out the other heirs.  He
does considerable in the line of dairying and ships milk to Lynn, Mass.  He
has built up quite an insurance business, representing three very strong com-
panies.
   September 4, 1888, Mr. Dixon married Miss Emma F. Adams of Massa-
chusetts, who died in 1899.  She was a daughter of Nathan J. and Fannie
(Minard) Adams.  In May, 1901, he formed a second union with Miss Car-
ried L. Pearson of Boston, Mass., a daughter of Joseph Hiram and Adeline
(Marston) Pearson.  Mr. Dixon is a democrat in politics and has filled
numerous local offices.  He was selectman three years, was auditor a number

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of terms, and also served as road agent.  Religiously, he and his wife attend
the Congregational Church.