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Elijah
W. Dickinson
E. W. Dickinson was born in Christian county, Kentucky, July 18, 1835. His parents, Elijah and Mary A. Dickinson, and family moved to Illinois the following October and settled on a farm, now owned by R. B. Dickinson, about two miles south of where Eureka is now situated. Here the subject of this sketch spent his youth and early manhood, working on the farm during the farming season and attending school in the winter time.
| He commenced his career as a teacher, by teaching a district school in White Oak Grove during the winter of 1855 and '56. The next September he entered Eureka College as a student and continued there until he graduated in 1860. For several years following this, most of the time was spent either in
farming or in teaching, the greater part of the latter being done in or near Eureka, having taught years in the public schools of the village and two years in Eureka College as Professor of Mathematics.
In the War of the Rebellion he served as First Lieutenant of Co. C, 139th Reg. Ill. Vol. Infantry. On the 5th day of September, 1861, he married Miss Anna M. Dennis, with whom he lived happily until she died, March 8, 1889.
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Mr. Dickinson is now a citizen of Eureka, Illinois, and takes a lively interest in all affairs pertaining to religion, education and politics.
Source:
A History of Eureka College, St. Louis: Christian Publishing
Company, 1894.
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