Telegraph to Abraham Lincoln on May 18, 1860: To Hon Abe Lincoln / My humble congratulations great Enthusiasm our guns thundering all Abe / Wm DicksonĪfter law school, Dickson moved to Cincinnati. Parker provided a letter of introduction for Nathaniel Wright in Cincinnati, since he decided to move to the area but did not know anyone in the city. Chief Justice Joel Parker, a professor at Harvard, brought him into his household and treated him like a member of the family while he studied at Harvard. He then studied at the Harvard Law School for two years and received his LLB in 1850. In 1848, he was admitted to the bar in Kentucky. In Lexington, Kentucky, he learned the law through self-study, while earning an income as a teacher. He then studied at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, where he graduated the fifth of his class in 1846. For two years, he stayed the weekends in Hanover and walked to school each Monday morning, carrying a week's worth of food and books. The college merged to Madison University, requiring William to walk to school in Madison. William worked his way through college, first attending Hanover College. He established a farm and wrote poetry, publishing the book A Farmer's Thoughts In Prose and Poetry. John quit the copper trade and his mother Rachel moved to Iowa, settling in West Grove in 1850.
John learned the copper trade so that William could go to school. William was described as having "weak" health as a child. Rachel moved her family to Hanover, Indiana, where there was a better school. William's father died in 1835, when William was eight years old. Rachel, born in Rockingham County, Virginia on March 22, 1801, descended from the early Campbell and Lowry families of Virginia. Richard, a farmer, immigrated to the United States from Scotland. Dickson and Rachel Lowry (1801–1860), who married in Madison, Indiana on Novemand settled in Scott County. His wife, Annie Maria Palmer was the first cousin of Mary Todd Lincoln.ĭickson was born on Septemin Lexington, Scott County, Indiana to Richard L. A semi-invalid after the war, he wrote about political and social reform for the last 23 years of his life.Ī relative by marriage, Dickson was a presidential elector supporting Lincoln during the 1860 election. He formed and led the Black Brigade of Cincinnati that built a blockade to prevent Confederate troops from attacking Cincinnati. Alphonso Taft, the father of President and Chief Justice William Howard Taft, and Thomas Marshall Key were his law partners. He was one of the founders of the Republican Party and assisted in the framing of the Emancipation Proclamation. Dickson (1827-1889), was a lawyer, prosecuting attorney, and judge from Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. William Martin Dickson, also known as William M. William Martin Dickson (1827-1889) was a lawyer, prosecuting attorney, judge, Civil War officer of Cincinnati, Ohio
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