Joseph M. Dickson Biography


	This biography appears on pages 511-512 in "History of Minnehaha
	County, South Dakota" by Dana R. Bailey and was scanned, OCRed
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DICKSON, JOSEPH M., was born in Logan county, Ohio, January 14, 1840.  Attended 
public schools and worked in a tannery for some time, and then worked on a farm 
in Illinois until August 10, 1862, when he enlisted in Co. F, 125th Illinois 
Infantry, and served until June 29, 1865.  After his discharge he engaged in 
farming until 1867 when he moved to Bloomfield, Iowa, and went into the hotel 
and livery business, in which he continued until he removed to this county. He 
arrived in Sioux Falls the last day of February, 1871, and took up a pre-emption 
and homestead in Mapleton township, in sections twenty-nine and twenty-two, which 
he farmed until 1880, when he assumed the duties of sheriff of Minnehaha county, 
to which office he was elected in 1879, receiving the unanimous vote of the county; 
was re-elected in 1881 and 1883, holding the office six years; was then chief of 
police in Sioux Falls three years and on the police force in all six years.  
December 28, 1898, he removed to the State of Washington. Mr. Dickson was one of 
the best known men in the county, a good neighbor and a highly esteemed citizen.