Clark County WA Archives Biographies.....Dickson, Harry A. 
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Author: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company

     HARRY A. DICKSON, member of the firm of Dickson & Company, at Brush 
Prairie, Clark county, Washington, is numbered among the energetic and 
progressive business men of his community and enjoys a wide and favorable 
acquaintance throughout this section of the country.  He was  born at Wayside, 
Union county, Illinois, and is the youngest child of E. H. and Mary J. 
(Coleman) Dickson.  His father, who also was a native of Union County, 
Illinois, received a good education in the public schools of that locality, 
and early in life engaged in teaching there.  He was a man of vigorous 
mentality, keenly alive to the interests of his county and state; gave his 
active support to the republican party and served as a member of the sixty-
third Illinois state legislature.  In 1907 he brought his family to Washington 
and located at Brush Prairie, where he taught school and also engaged in 
farming but later became interested in mercantile affairs, at Brush Prairie, 
under the name of Dickson & Company.  This company is still in active 
operation and is one of the leading concerns of the locality.  The father 
continued his connection with the business up to the time of his death, 
which occurred in 1922. A man of mature judgment in practical affairs and 
possessing a sterling character which won for him the sincere respect of all 
who knew him, his death was regarded as a distinct loss to the community 
honored by his citizenship. To him and his wife were born four children, 
namely: Ralph, who is a member of the firm of Shattuck & Dickson, Ford 
dealers, in Vancouver; Lora and Beulah, both of whom are deceased; and Harry 
A., of this review. Ralph was formerly a member the Dickson company here.

     Harry A. Dickson secured his educational training in the public schools 
of Illinois and Brush Prairie, after which he was employed in the post office 
at this place. He took the examination for admission to the United States 
Naval Academy at Annapolis but before receiving the appointment enlisted in 
the United States Navy in 1917, when seventeen years of age. He went into 
training at Goat Island and was later ordered overseas, where he served with 
the Atlantic Mine Laying Unit No. 1, with headquarters at Inverness, Scotland. 
While engaged in this service he received his appointment to Annapolis, which, 
however, he did not accept. He was honorably discharged from the navy in May, 
1919, and on his return home he entered the Dickson store at Brush Prairie, 
with which he has since been identified, being now a member of the firm.

     In 1922, Mr. Dickson was united in marriage to Miss Wilma Gardner, who 
was born in Sherwood, Oregon, and is a daughter of Martin and Magdaline 
Gardner, the former of whom is deceased, while the latter lives with her 
daughter, Mrs. Dickson. There is one child of this union, Janice.

     Mr. Dickson is a member of the American Legion. He is a man of high 
ideals; is deeply interested in the welfare and progress of his community, and 
his business record has stamped him as a man of honorable methods and up-to-
date ideas, while in his social relations his friendly and affable manner has 
gained for him the regard and good will of all who know him.


Additional Comments:
History of the Columbia River Valley From The Dalles to the Sea, Vol. II, 
Pages 578-579

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