Susquehanna County, PA--Bios--DIMMICK, Addison 1829

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ADDISON DIMMICK, OPELOUSAS.--Mr. Dimmick is a native of Pennsylvania, born in
Susquehanna county, July, 1829.  He is one of a family of seven children born
to Marshall and O. (Smith) Dimmick, natives of Connecticut and Rhode Island,
respectively. Marshall Dimmick was successful farmer of Susquehanna county.
His parents were pioneer settlers of this section of Pennsylvania.

The subject of our sketch was reared in the county of which his father was a
native and received his primary education in the neighboring schools.  He
completed his education in 1851, graduating from Harford University.  In 1853
he married, in Susquehanna county, Penn., Miss Louisa Carpenter, daughter of
Gen. Amherst Carpenter, of the same State.  Mr. Dimmick removed from
Pennsylvania to Nebraska in 1856, and in 1857 he removed from there to Iowa.
He was one of the founders of the town of Onawa, the county seat of Monona
county, Iowa.  In 1864 he returned with his family to Pennsylvania on a visit;
while there he enlisted in the Army of the Potomac, under Gen. Geo. B.
McClellan.  He was at the siege of. Yorktown, the battle of Williamsburg, Fair
Oaks and the seven days' fight at Malvern Hill.  He became Second Lieutenant
of Co. I, 57th Pennsylvania infantry.  He was taken sick soon after the battle
of Fair Oaks, and was sent to Newark, N. J., and from thence to Philadelphia,
where he was discharged on account of disability.  In 1862 he returned with
his family again to his home in Iowa.   Here he remained, engaged in farming.
Prior to the war he had practised law in this place, having been admitted to
the bar at Woodstock, Ill., in 1855.   He for a while was editor of a
newspaper in Nebraska, known as the " Nebraska Pioneer," and in Monona he was
editor of the only paper published in that county for several years.  He
removed to St. Landry parish, Louisiana, in November of 1875, where he bought
a tract of twelve hundred acres of land, all of which he now has under
cultivation.  His plantation is situated seven miles south of Opelousas, and
is one of the finest in the parish.  Mr. Dimmick also gives considerable
attention to the raising of stock.  He now has on his plantation from two to
three hundred head of cattle and about seventy-five head of horses and mules.
He is a member of the masonic fraternity and is government statistician for
the parish of St. Landry.

Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section, p. 27.
Edited by William Henry Perrin.  Published in 1891, by The Gulf Publishing
Company.