Dixon, William

DIXON, BEAL

Posted By: Gary Norris (email)
Date: 2/11/2013 at 07:28:51

The History of Poweshiek County, Iowa
Des Moines: Union Hist. Co., 1880.

DIXON, WILLIAM—Jefferson Twp—pg 963. Farmer and stock-raiser, section 13, P.O. Belle Plaine. Was born October 5, 1819, in Northumberland, England, where, after finishing his education, he engaged in coal mining till 1853, when he came to the United States and settled in Pennsylvania, where he mined one year; then mined in Virginia till 1855, when he came to Iowa and settled in Jefferson township, and engaged in farming, and the spring of 1865 he bought and located where he now lives and owns 160 acres of well improved land, with an abundance of fruit on the same. Mr. D. was married, in May, 1842, in England, to Miss Jane Beal, a resident and native of England. They have six children: William (aged thirty-one years; married and lives in this township), Thomas (aged twenty-eight years; married and lives in this township), John (aged twenty-five years), Richard (aged twenty-four years), Robert (aged twenty-one years), Alice (aged eighteen years) and buried one son in England and one in this country.