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History of Story County, Iowa Vol 2 by William O. Payne, 1911

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subject. She was called to her final rest on the 6th of October, 1910. Mr. and Mrs. Robison have one child, Hazel Dorothy, who is a graduate of the Nevada high school and also pursued the full musical course at Simpson College near Des Moines.

Mr. Robison is a republican in politics and has served as a member of the school board for several years. Fraternally he is identified with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, belonging to lodge No. 104 at Nevada, while his wife and daughter are faithful members of the United Evangelical church. He has remained in Story county from his birth to the present time and that his has been an honorable and upright life is indicated by the fact that many of his stanchest friends are those who have known him from his boyhood.


CLAUDE G. DICKEY, M. D.

Dr. Claude G. Dickey, a well known and successful physician and surgeon of Cambridge, has enjoyed a steadily growing and most lucrative practice during the five years of his residence here. His birth occurred in Corning, Adams county, Iowa, on the 6th of September, 1876, his parents being Charles H. and Mercy (Sherman) Dickey, who are natives of western New York and Cleveland, Ohio, respectively. Charles H. Dickey was brought to this state by his parents when a boy, the family home being established in Delaware county, where he grew to manhood. He was a student in Lennox University at the time of the outbreak of the Civil war and in 1863 enlisted for service in the Union army. When his term of enlistment had expired he returned to Iowa and eventually located in Adams county, where he became identified with general agricultural pursuits. In the fall of 1883 he took up his abode at Maxwell, Story county, and was there successfully engaged in merchandising for a number of years. For the past four years he has lived retired, making his home with his wife and son Claude in Cambridge. His fraternal relations are with the Masons and he is a worthy exemplar of the craft. The period of his residence in this county covers more than a quarter of a century and he enjoys a wide and favorable acquaintance within its borders.

Claude G. Dickey was reared under the parental roof, pursuing his studies in the Maxwell high school and later at Iowa College of Grinnell, Iowa, which institution conferred upon him the degree of Bachelor of Philosophy in 1900. In the fall of that year he took up the study of medicine, entering Rush Medical College of Chicago, from which institution he was graduated in 1903. Because of his scientific course at Grinnell he had been enabled to complete four years' work in three years and three months. Locating at Garden City, Hardin county, Iowa, he there followed his profession for two years and then came to Cambridge to take the practice of Dr.

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