Bedford County PA Archives Biographies.....Dicken, Solomon 
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SOLOMON DICKEN, who owns and occupies an excellent farm in 
Cumberland Valley, Bedford County, is held in high respect 
as an upright and loyal citizen.  This township, in which he 
was born on July 24, 1824, was also the birthplace of his 
parents, Moses and Elizabeth (Brill) Dicken.
  Moses Dicken, it is said, was a soldier in the War of 
1812, when he did duty on the frontier.  He was a lifelong 
resident of Cumberland Valley township, and served several 
years as Tax Collector.  Of his children the following 
survive: John, of whom a biographical notice may be found 
elsewhere in this volume; Henry; Mary A., residing in 
Maryland, widow of the late John Davis; Solomon; Ruth, widow 
of Francis Rice, late of Cumberland Valley township; and 
Elizabeth, wife of James H. Brotmarkle, of Illinois.
  Solomon Dicken obtained his early education, a practical 
knowledge of the three "R's," in the subscription schools of 
his day, oftentimes being obliged to trudge four miles 
through snow and sleet to the primitive log cabin in which, 
during the three winter months only, the school was held.  
From his earliest manhood until the present time farming has 
been his principle occupation.  He has made many 
improvements on his homestead, which gives evidence of a 
wise and thrifty ownership.  During the closing period of 
the Civil War Mr. Dicken served about six months in Company 
C, Twentieth Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry.  With his 
regiment he marched under General Sherman to Atlanta and 
thence to the sea, and subsequently went to Richmond, Va., 
where he was mustered out.  Largely endowed with public 
spirit, he is confidently relied on by his fellow- townsmen 
to support any measure likely to benefit the town or county, 
and he rarely disappoints them.  In politics he invariably 
sustains the principles of the Democratic party.
  Mr. Dicken's first wife was Christena Hardman, a daughter 
of the late Philip Hardman, of Cumberland Valley township.  
After her death he married Lucy E. Vicroy, daughter of James 
Vicroy, late of this township.


Source: Bedford Biographical Review, 1899, Bedford Co., Pa