BIO:  J. R. DICKSON, Straban Township, Adams County, PA

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History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania
Chicago:  Warner, Beers & Co., 1886
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Part III, History of Adams County, Page 507

J. R. DICKSON, A. M., M.D., Hunterstown, was born near this place February 23, 
1853, a son of John and Martha E. (Campbell) Dickson, natives of Pennsylvania.  
His paternal and maternal ancestors were among the early Scotch-Irish settlers 
of Straban Township, this county.  His father was a farmer, and his family 
consisted of five children, the Doctor being the second.  Our subject was reared 
on the farm, attended the common school and spent two years at Chambersburg 
Academy under the instruction of Prof. Shumaker; then entered Lafayette College, 
Penn., and graduated in the class of 1877.  The same year he entered the medical 
department of the University of Pennsylvania, where he graduated in 1880, and 
has been in the practice of his profession in Straban Township since 1881.  He 
married, January 31, 1882, Margaret R., daughter of John and Rebecca 
(Taughinbaugh) McCrea, of Scotch-Irish origin; former of whom was superintendent 
of iron furnaces in Armstrong County, Penn., many years.  Mr. and Mrs. Dickson 
are parents of the following children:  James Allen, Martha Campbell, and an 
infant not named.  Mrs. Dickson is a consistent member of the Presbyterian 
Church.  Mr. Dickson has been school director, and at present is justice of the 
peace of his township.  He is the owner of 240 acres of land, well improved and 
valuable, where he resides.