CONFEDERATE BIOGRAPHY:  E. C. Dickinson - Cherokee County, TX

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TEXANS WHO WORE THE GRAY by Sid S. Johnson, page 183 

E. C. DICKINSON.

E. C. Dickinson, of Rusk, born December 15th, 1847, in North Port, 
Alabama; removed to Texas in 1851 and settled in Cherokee county, 
where he has continuously resided. He enlisted in the Confederate 
army September 1864 in Bay­lor's Regiment. His company was commanded 
by Capt. Thos. E. Hogg, and served until the end of the war in 1865. 
Young Dickinson was in his 15th year at the date of enlist­ment.  He 
was reared six miles east of Rusk.  Judge Dick­inson was Congessional 
Elector on the democratic ticket in the first race of Grover 
Cleveland for the presidency. He took an active part and canvassed 
the district.  In 1876 he was married to Miss Carrie A. Summers, and 
they have seven children.  Elizabeth married John S. Wightman, 
cashier of the First National Bank, Rusk; Kate married C. B. Powell 
of the Powell Lumber Co., Rusk; Viola, Sunshine, Dorothy, Will and 
Marjorie are unmarried and reside with their parents.  Judge 
Dickinson is a leading lawyer in East Texas, but finds time to be 
largely interested in the horti­cultural development of his section of 
the state.  Fine stock and fruit culture has been wonderfully 
developed by him along with other prominent citizens of Rusk.