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C. W. DICKINSON, farmer, P. O. Norwich, is a son of Edward and Roxie (Comes) Dickinson, the former a native
of New Jersey, and the latter of Norwich township, McKean Co., Penn. The father came to McKean county in 1833,
and engaged in hunting and trapping, at one time killing fifty seven deer in twenty five days; he also killed three
elks and twenty bears in McKean county. C. W. Dickinson is the second son of eight children. He was born in Norwich
township, November 10, 1842, and received his education in the common schools of Norwich. July 9, 1861, he entered
the United States service, enlisting in Company I, Forty second Regiment Pennsylvania "Bucktails," and
was discharged on account of disability, returningto Norwich September 28 of the same year. He married, November
18, 1873, Miss Estella P. Denison, a daughter of William and Otteline (Carter) Denison, natives of the State of
New York, who came to Norwich township in 1841. Mr. and Mrs. Dickinson are the parents of four children, viz.:
Charlie B., Lena E., Carrie A. and Louis H. Mr. Dickinson is one of the wide awake men of the township, and has
been identified with various local oflices. He has taken a great interest in the public schools of the township,
and, like his father, has a disposition to hunt and trap, having killed about three hundred deer, nine bears, eighteen
wolves, and about twenty wildcats, and caught too much small game to mention here.
From:
History of the Counties of
McKean, Elk and Forest,
Pennsylvania
With Biographical Selections.
J. H. Beers & Co., Publishers
Chicago, 1890.
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