George Willard DICKERSON
- BIRTH: 31 JAN 1854, Almont, Lapeer Co., MI
- DEATH: 14 APR 1927, Lapeer, Co., MI
Father: Chilon Ford DICKERSON
Mother: Susan HOWDER
Family 1: Julia NORTH
- MARRIAGE: 31 JAN 1878
- CHILDREN:
_Nodiah DICKERSON ______
_// DICKERSON _____|
| |_Phoebe HEATON _________
_Chilon Ford DICKERSON _|
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|--George Willard DICKERSON
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| _Christian HOWDER _|
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|_Susan HOWDER __________|
| _Adam HOUFSTATER _______
|_Mary HOUSTATER ___|
|_Elizabeth Katherine //_
Notes
Updated March 12, 2005. Compiled by Howder (www.howderfamily.com) from the following source(s):
(1) 1860 United States Census for Michigan, Lapeer Co., Twp. of Almont
(Almont Post Office): Page 127; July 7, 1860.
George Willard Dickerson (listed as "Willard Dickenson") is the son of
Chilon and Susan Dickerson. He is 6 years old, born in Michigan, and is
attending school.
(2) 1870 United States Census for Michigan, Lapeer Co., Almont (Almont
Post Office): page 36; dwelling 271; family 282; August 21, 1870.
George Willard (listed as Willard G.) Dickerson is the son of Chilon and
Susana Dickerson. He was born in Michigan, is 16 years old and is at
home.
(3) LDS FamilySearch 1880
United States Census database for Goodland, Lapeer Co., MI. Family
History Library Film 1254589, NA Film Number T9-0589, Page 222B.
George W. Dickerson is listed as 26 years old and born in Michigan. Both
of his parents are listed as born in Pennsylvania. He is head of
household, a farmer, and married to Julia (North) Dickerson. Their
daughter, Laura M. Dickerson is included in the household along with
George's 8-year-old nephew, Arthur Dickerson (son of Don C. Dickerson).
The residence is next door to George's father, C. F. Dickerson.
(4) 1900 United States Census for Michigan, Lapeer Co., Goodland Twp.:
Supervisor's District 7; Enumeration District 36; Sheet 1B; June 2 & 4,
1900.
George Dickerson is head of household, married to Julia [North]
Dickerson. Children in the household include Laura, Susie, Mabel and
Bernice. George's brother Leonidas Dickerson resides in the next
household, and his cousin Veloris Mathews and family reside a few
households away.
- Birth month: January 1854; age 46.
- Number of years married: 22.
- Birthplace: Michigan, with his father from New Jersey and his mother
from Pennsylvania.
- Occupation: A farmer who owns his farm with a mortgage.
(5) 1910 United States Census for Michigan, Lapeer Co., Lapeer City (part
of); 1st Ward: Supervisor's District 7; Enumeration District 45; Sheet
4A; April 21, 1910.
George W. Dickerson is head of household, married to Julia [North]
Dickerson. Children in the household are Mable and Burnice.
Address: 113 Saginaw Street North.
Age: 58; married for the past 32 years.
Birthplace: Michigan, with his parents from Pennsylvania.
Occupation: County Clerk at the County Building.
Home: Rents a house.
(6) 1920 United States Census for Michigan, Lapeer Co., Lapeer City; 1st
Ward: Supervisory District 7; Enumeration District 48; Sheet 2A, January
2, 1920.
George W. Dickerson is head of household, married to Julia [North]
Dickerson. Their daughter Bernice is also in the household.
Age: 65.
Home: Owns a house free of mortgage.
Birthplace: Michigan, with his father from New Jersey and his mother
from Pennsylvania.
Occupation: Clerk for the County.
(7) Letter from J. Kirk Seaton to I. Richard Reed (Niagara Co., NY
Historian), March 27, 1978.
(8) "The History of Lapeer County, Michigan: with illustrations and
biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers." H. R.
Page (Chicago: 1884), via The University of Michigan
Digital Library Text Collections.
"CHILION F. DICKERSON... and Susanna Howder... having ten children, all
of whom are still living, viz: ...George Willard, 1854." (Page 177)
(9) Pioneer Families and History of Lapeer County, Michigan. J. Dee
Ellis, compiler. Ellis Publishing Co., Lapeer, MI, 1978, pages 98-99 &
corrections page.
- Provided dates of lifetime events for George Dickerson & family.
- County Clerk for Lapeer in January 1918.
(10) Moore, Charles, 1855-1942. "The History of Michigan." Lewis
Publishing Company (Chicago: 1915), via The University of Michigan
Digital Library Text Collections, pages 919-920.
"GEORGE WILLARD DICKERSON. One of the most popular officials of Lapeer
county is the present incumbent of the county clerk's office, George
Willard Dickerson, now serving his fourth term in that responsible
position. His popularity has been gained not alone because of his
pleasant personality, but by reason of the able and conscientious manner
in which he has discharged the duties of his office and the faithful
manner in which he has looked after the interests of the people whom he
represents. Mr. Dickerson is a product of Lapeer county, born in Almont
township, January 31, 1854, a son of Chilon Ford and Susan (Howder)
Dickerson, natives respectively of New York and Pennsylvania. The
Dickerson family is one of the old and honored ones of Lapeer county,
having been founded here in 1832 by the father of Mr. Dickerson, a
shoemaker by trade. After spending four years here at his trade, he
returned to New York, where he had left his wife and three children, and
brought his family back to Almont, then little more than a scattering
settlement in the wilderness. He was an honest, industrious workman, and
in spite of primitive conditions managed to give his children good
educations, so that his seven daughters all became school teachers of
Lapeer county. He died at the age of eighty-six years, honored and
esteemed by all who knew him. Mr. Dickerson managed to accumulate
considerable farming property, although he never engaged actively as a
farmer himself. He took some interest in local political affairs, and his
opinion had much to do in influencing others. In New York he had received
a military training in his youth, but saw no active service as a soldier,
being rejected when he volunteered, because of a physical disability. The
mother passed away when sixty-three years. Ten children were born to
Chilon F. and Susan Dickerson, of whom seven are living at this time:
Don, who is a resident of Arcadia, Nebraska; Albina, who is a resident of
Almont and the widow of James Seaton; Helen, who is the wife of Thomas H.
Waller, of Mayville, Michigan; Mary, who is the wife of John Mackey, of
Almont township; Retta, who is the wife of Leonard Lovelace, of Portland,
Oregon; Arabella, who is the widow of Elisha Whitacker, of Metamora,
Michigan; and George Willard. George Willard Dickerson received good
educational advantages, like all of his parents' children, attending
first the district schools of Almont township and later the Almont High
school. A reliable youth, industrious and energetic, he was but eighteen
years of age when he was given the responsibility of the management of
his father's farm, of which he had charge for four years, and at the end
of that period embarked in operations on his own account. At that time he
purchased a farm in Goodland township, which he continued to cultivate
successfully until January, I906, proving himself an able agriculturist
and excellent man of business. In January of the year mentioned he came
to Lapeer, and this city has still been his home, although he still owns
his Goodland township property, which he rents. Mr. Dickerson has long
been interested in republican politics, and prior to coming to Lapeer
served four years as township clerk and nine years as supervisor of
Goodland township. In I906 he became the candidate of his party for the
office of county clerk of Lapeer county, to which he was elected by a
good majority, and his work in that position proved so satisfactory that
he was re-elected in I908, I910 and I912, and is now serving his fourth
term. Widely known in his county because of the active part he has taken
in campaigning, he has formed a wide acquaintance throughout this part of
the state, and his numerous friendships have been strengthened by the
desire he has shown to forward the county's best interests. Mr. Dickerson
is a Blue Lodge and Chapter Mason and a member of the Knights of Pythias.
Mr. Dickerson was married to Miss Julia North, who was born in Lapeer
county, daughter of William and Laura (Babcock) North, pioneer settlers
of Lapeer county and prominent farming people. Four daughters have been
born to this union, namely: Laura, who is the wife of Dr. Adam Price, of
Almont, a successful practicing physician; Susan, who is the wife of
William H. McNally, of Imlay City, Michigan; and Mabel and Bernice, who
reside at home with their parents."