Jonathan Bates Dickson

Birth Date

1833-02-09

Death Date

1877-02-21

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Galena, Illinois, china merchant and soldier. Massachusetts native. Son of Joshua G. Dickson and Sarah Dickson. Resident of Hamilton County, Ohio, in 1850. Attended Harvard College in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1851. China merchant in Galena, Illinois, in 1860. Employed M. Dickson as a clerk in Galena in 1860. Employed Margaret McDonald as a house servant in Galena in 1860. Served in the 12th Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as a second lieutenant and first lieutenant from April 27, 1861, to May 1, 1862. Served in the Adjutant General's Office of the Department of the Ohio (U.S.A.) as a captain from May 1, 1862, to June 24, 1865.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Ohio, Hamilton County, Mill Creek, p. 68A.
Eight Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Illinois, Jo Daviess County, Galena, Ward 2, p. 385.
U.S. School Catalogs, 1765-1935, Harvard College, 1851, p. 35.
Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Illinois U.S. Adjutant General Military Records, 1631-1976, Illinois 1861-1862.
Heitman's Historical Register and Dictionary of the United States Army, from it's Organization, September 29, 1789, to March 2, 1903 p. 373.
"Maj J. Bates Dickson (1833-1877)," Find A Grave, Memorial 109784356, accessed May 26, 2020, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/109784356.

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