BIO: James Ramsay Dixon, Cumberland County, PA

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History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania.
Containing History of the Counties, Their Townships, Towns, Villages, 
Schools, Churches, Industries, Etc.; Portraits of Early Settlers and 
Prominent Men; Biographies; History of Pennsylvania; Statistical and 
Miscellaneous Matter, Etc., Etc.  Illustrated.  Chicago: Warner, Beers 
& Co., 1886.
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                                PART II.

             HISTORY OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY. PENNSYLVANIA.

                            CHAPTER XXXVIII.

                          BOROUGH OF CARLISLE.

372  BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.

  JAMES RAMSAY DIXON, sheriff-elect of Cumberland County, and a 
resident of Carlisle, was born in Mount Holly, April 11, 1834, a son of 
David and Christina (Young) Dixon, the former a son of Andrew Dixon, a 
machinist, and a native of Scotland, who settled in Cumberland County, 
and who left two sons, David and James R.  The subject of this sketch 
left his father's business (blacksmithing) to engage in butchering, 
with which he has since been successfully connected at this place.  He 
married Mary J., daughter of Samuel and Charlotte Allgeir, the union 
being blessed with one son and three daughters:  Ellen (deceased), 
Andrew (associated in business with his father), Laura (wife of Charles 
Meck, a merchant) and Ella.  Mr. Dixon is a strong supporter of the 
Democratic party, and until the last convention, at which he was 
nominated and subsequently creditably elected to the sheriffalty of his 
county, he has always refused public office.  He is a worthy Mason and 
a member of the Royal Arcanum.