Col Henry Dickinson was commander of the Tennessee National Guard.
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Five Year Record: Class of 1905
By Yale University, Scheffeld Scientific School
Henry Dickinson
Residence - Federal Avenue, Seattle, Wash.
Business Address - 816 White Building, Seattle, Wash.
Born December 3, 1881, at Nashville, Tenn., son of J. M. Dickinson, born in Columbia, Mississippi, a graduate of the University of Nashville, received his L.L.D. degree from Columbia and Yale, and studied in Leipsig and Paris. He was general counsel of the Illinois Central Railroad and is now Secretary of War and resides in Washington, D.C. His mother, Martha Maxwell (Overton) Dickinson, was born in Nashville, Tenn. He has two brothers: John Overton Dickinson, University of Virginia ex-'1897, and J, M. Dickinson, Jr., Yale 1913.
He prepared at Lawrenceville, Black Hall and at other private schools, entering Sheff in September 1902, where he took the Select Course and was a member of Berzelius and the Kopper Kettle Klub.
He married on February 14, 1907, at Nashville, Tenn. to Ms. Ida Hamilton Thompson. They have one son, Henry Dickinson, jr., born August 8, 1908.
Dickinson was Vice President of the Great Northern Mill Company of Seattle, Wash., which position he occupied from June 10, 1908 to September 24, 1909. He is now president and treasurer of the Henry Dickinson Lumber Company, incorporated, of Seattle, Washington. He is a member of the First Presbyterian Church, and belongs to the University, Gold and Country, Ranier, Seattle Hunt, and Commercial Clubs of Seattle, and to the Seattle Chamber of Commerce. Concerning his life since leaving college he says: "Left Yale when the Class did, and enjoyed life for the short space of five weeks in Tennessee. Went to work at Griffin Wheel Company, Chicago, for sixty per month On August 1, 1905. Got three raises. Left Griffin in fall of 1906 and again saw something of life for a month. Money gave out. Came to Seattle with the "Mucker" in the middle of December 1906. Didn't get a job although I tried hard for one. Consequently I went home and got married February, 1907. Job was easy to get on return to Seattle. Since then have occupied the following positions: treasurer of the North American Investment Company: secretary and treasurer of Russell & Dickinson Inc.; treasurer of the Union Fish & Packet Co.; trustee Elliott Bay Ironworks; auditor of the Great Northern Mill Company; and vice president of the same company. Occupy all of the above positions now except those with the North American Investment Company & Russell & Dickinson, Inc. and Great Northern Mill Company. Have had an extremely happy and satisfactory life since coming out here, and I expect to stay indefinitely. Have lost almost as much money as I have made since getting here exclusive of living expenses. Our son was born on August 8, 1908 and on account of his pleasing appearance it was immediately decided to inflict him with his father's name. He will enter Yale in the class of 1931, and I hope will have less trouble getting through than I did.
ABOUT HIS FATHER:
U.S. Presidential Cabinet Secretary. During the Civil War, he enlisted at fourteen as a Private in the Confederate Army, serving (1861-65). After the war, he graduated from the University of Nashville in 1871, studied law and was admitted to the Tennessee bar in 1874. He served as president of the Tennessee Bar Association, (1889-93), was a member of the Tennessee Supreme Court, (1891-93). He also was Assistant Attorney General of the United States, (1895-97) and from 1897 to 1899, a Professor of Law at the Vanderbilt University Law School and an attorney for the Louisville & Nashville Rail Railroad, (1897-99). Moving to Chicago, he was general solicitor counsel for the Illinois Central Railroad, (1899-1909) and was president of the American Bar Association. In 1909, President Taft appointed him to his cabinet as the U.S. Secretary of War, serving until 1911. During his tenure, he proposed legislation to permit the admission of foreign students to West Point and recommended an annuity retirement system for civil service employees. After his term, he served as a special assistant attorney general and acted in several important labor cases. He was president of the Izaak Walton League from 1927 until his death at age 77. (
DICKINSON RESIGNS
Secretary of War Quite Cabinet
to Enter Business.
STIMSON TO SUCCEED HIM
Recent N. Y. Gubernatorial Candidate
begins Duties Monday Selection
Made With Only Few Days'
Consideration, Greatly Pleases
President Taft -- Politicians Here
See Attempt of Administration to
Straighten Out Tangle in Republican
Party of Empire State
Secretary of War Jacon McGavock Dickinson, of Tennessee, the Democratic member of President Taft's cabinet, has resigned. Henry L. Stinson, of New York, recently defeated Republican candidate for governor of that state, has been given the War portfolio. This announcement was made at the White House last night and occasioned great [_______].
Jacob McGavock Dickinson was born in Columbus, Mississippi, on January 30, 1851. He was the son of Henry Dickinson and Anne Eliza McGavock Dickson. At the very young age of thirteen or fourteen he enlisted as a private in the Confederate cavalry. At the close of the war, he moved with his family to Nashville, Tennessee where he attended and graduated from the University of Nashville in 1871 and received his master's degree in 1872. He studied law briefly at Columbia University and continued his studies abroad in Leipzig and Paris and was admitted to the Tennessee bar in 1874. He served as president of the Tennessee Bar Association, 1889-1883, and was attorney general of the United States, 1895-1897, was attorney for the Louisville & Nashville Railroad, 1897–1899; moved to Chicago, Illinois, 1899; became general solicitor for the Illinois Central Railroad, 1899–1901, and general counsel, 1901–1909; was a counsel for the Alaskan Boundary Tribunal, 1903; was president of the American Bar Association, 1907–1908; helped organize the American Society of International Law, served on its executive council from 1907 to 1910, and was its vice president in 1910.
The Saturday Evening Post described Jacob Dickinson as, "broad-shouldered, upstanding clear-eyed, soft spoken, straightforward Tennessean and one of the few really great lawyers of the United States. He stands close to the top of the bar. His friends say he stands at the exact top, but that is a matter for lawyers to decide. There can be no disputing the statement that he is one of the leaders in his profession" (1). It is no wonder that President Taft chose him to serve as Secretary of War, March 1909–1911. The Saturday Evening Post further intimated that Jacob Dickinson was "a sane man, a conservative man, a hard- headed, common-sensed man, as big mentally as he is physically, and as big physically as Taft himself, barring thirty pounds or so of paunch. Judge Dickinson is six feet and three inches tall and weighs about two hundred and seventy pounds, whereas the president is six feet and two inches tall and weighs (whisper) about three hundred pounds. Big men like big men. So, when Taft was judge and Dickinson appeared before him, they became friends. They are friends yet, close, intimate friends, for Dickinson's mind is a great deal like Taft's. Dickinson has the same judicial quality of determination on facts, the power of weighing and deciding. He is a great administrator, and, like Taft he works all the time when he is working and plays all the time when he is playing (1). He proposed legislation to permit the admission of foreign students to West Point; recommended an annuity retirement system for civil service employees; suggested that Congress consider stopping the pay of soldiers rendered unfit for duty because of venereal disease or alcoholism as a means of combatting those problems; was a special assistant attorney general, helped prosecute the U.S. Steel Corporation in 1913, and acted in several important labor cases in 1922; was receiver of the Rock Island Lines, 1915–1917; was president of the Izaak Walton League, 1927–1928. Zollicoffer Bond described Judge Dickinson as the "greatest living citizen of Nashville."
Jacob McGavock Dickinson married, on April 20, 1876, Martha "Margaret" Maxwell Overton. Three children were born to their union: Overton Dickson (1877), Henry Dickson (1881), and Jacob McGavock Dickinson Jr. (1891). Various times Dickinson owned three of Nashville's historic estates: Ensworth, Polk Place, and Belle Meade. Jacob Dickinson was also kinsman of the Hardings and bought the Harding Bell Meade Mansion, along with 400 acres, in 1906. He bought Belle Meade with the idea of having it as a place to entertain and as a retreat. It was during his tenure that President Taft was entertained there in the summer of 1909. When business called him elsewhere, his eldest son, Overton, and family lived there. A very unfortunate tragedy occurred: both Overton and his wife died from complications incurred with influenza. Broken heartened he sold Belle Meade, and rumor has it that he never went there again. His two little grandchildren were entrusted to the care of his sister-in-law. Jacob McGavock Dickson was very attentive to their well-being, education, and took them on many wonderful trips.
Martha Maxwell Dickinson died on March 9, 1917 in Nashville, Tennessee. Jacob McGavock Dickson died in Nashville, Tennessee, on December 13, 1928 in Chicago, Illinois.
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Five Year Record: Class of 1905
By Yale University, Scheffeld Scientific School
Henry Dickinson
Residence - Federal Avenue, Seattle, Wash.
Business Address - 816 White Building, Seattle, Wash.
Born December 3, 1881, at Nashville, Tenn., son of J. M. Dickinson, born in Columbia, Mississippi, a graduate of the University of Nashville, received his L.L.D. degree from Columbia and Yale, and studied in Leipsig and Paris. He was general counsel of the Illinois Central Railroad and is now Secretary of War and resides in Washington, D.C. His mother, Martha Maxwell (Overton) Dickinson, was born in Nashville, Tenn. He has two brothers: John Overton Dickinson, University of Virginia ex-'1897, and J, M. Dickinson, Jr., Yale 1913.
He prepared at Lawrenceville, Black Hall and at other private schools, entering Sheff in September 1902, where he took the Select Course and was a member of Berzelius and the Kopper Kettle Klub.
He married on February 14, 1907, at Nashville, Tenn. to Ms. Ida Hamilton Thompson. They have one son, Henry Dickinson, jr., born August 8, 1908.
Dickinson was Vice President of the Great Northern Mill Company of Seattle, Wash., which position he occupied from June 10, 1908 to September 24, 1909. He is now president and treasurer of the Henry Dickinson Lumber Company, incorporated, of Seattle, Washington. He is a member of the First Presbyterian Church, and belongs to the University, Gold and Country, Ranier, Seattle Hunt, and Commercial Clubs of Seattle, and to the Seattle Chamber of Commerce. Concerning his life since leaving college he says: "Left Yale when the Class did, and enjoyed life for the short space of five weeks in Tennessee. Went to work at Griffin Wheel Company, Chicago, for sixty per month On August 1, 1905. Got three raises. Left Griffin in fall of 1906 and again saw something of life for a month. Money gave out. Came to Seattle with the "Mucker" in the middle of December 1906. Didn't get a job although I tried hard for one. Consequently I went home and got married February, 1907. Job was easy to get on return to Seattle. Since then have occupied the following positions: treasurer of the North American Investment Company: secretary and treasurer of Russell & Dickinson Inc.; treasurer of the Union Fish & Packet Co.; trustee Elliott Bay Ironworks; auditor of the Great Northern Mill Company; and vice president of the same company. Occupy all of the above positions now except those with the North American Investment Company & Russell & Dickinson, Inc. and Great Northern Mill Company. Have had an extremely happy and satisfactory life since coming out here, and I expect to stay indefinitely. Have lost almost as much money as I have made since getting here exclusive of living expenses. Our son was born on August 8, 1908 and on account of his pleasing appearance it was immediately decided to inflict him with his father's name. He will enter Yale in the class of 1931, and I hope will have less trouble getting through than I did.
ABOUT HIS FATHER:
U.S. Presidential Cabinet Secretary. During the Civil War, he enlisted at fourteen as a Private in the Confederate Army, serving (1861-65). After the war, he graduated from the University of Nashville in 1871, studied law and was admitted to the Tennessee bar in 1874. He served as president of the Tennessee Bar Association, (1889-93), was a member of the Tennessee Supreme Court, (1891-93). He also was Assistant Attorney General of the United States, (1895-97) and from 1897 to 1899, a Professor of Law at the Vanderbilt University Law School and an attorney for the Louisville & Nashville Rail Railroad, (1897-99). Moving to Chicago, he was general solicitor counsel for the Illinois Central Railroad, (1899-1909) and was president of the American Bar Association. In 1909, President Taft appointed him to his cabinet as the U.S. Secretary of War, serving until 1911. During his tenure, he proposed legislation to permit the admission of foreign students to West Point and recommended an annuity retirement system for civil service employees. After his term, he served as a special assistant attorney general and acted in several important labor cases. He was president of the Izaak Walton League from 1927 until his death at age 77. (
DICKINSON RESIGNS
Secretary of War Quite Cabinet
to Enter Business.
STIMSON TO SUCCEED HIM
Recent N. Y. Gubernatorial Candidate
begins Duties Monday Selection
Made With Only Few Days'
Consideration, Greatly Pleases
President Taft -- Politicians Here
See Attempt of Administration to
Straighten Out Tangle in Republican
Party of Empire State
Secretary of War Jacon McGavock Dickinson, of Tennessee, the Democratic member of President Taft's cabinet, has resigned. Henry L. Stinson, of New York, recently defeated Republican candidate for governor of that state, has been given the War portfolio. This announcement was made at the White House last night and occasioned great [_______].
Jacob McGavock Dickinson was born in Columbus, Mississippi, on January 30, 1851. He was the son of Henry Dickinson and Anne Eliza McGavock Dickson. At the very young age of thirteen or fourteen he enlisted as a private in the Confederate cavalry. At the close of the war, he moved with his family to Nashville, Tennessee where he attended and graduated from the University of Nashville in 1871 and received his master's degree in 1872. He studied law briefly at Columbia University and continued his studies abroad in Leipzig and Paris and was admitted to the Tennessee bar in 1874. He served as president of the Tennessee Bar Association, 1889-1883, and was attorney general of the United States, 1895-1897, was attorney for the Louisville & Nashville Railroad, 1897–1899; moved to Chicago, Illinois, 1899; became general solicitor for the Illinois Central Railroad, 1899–1901, and general counsel, 1901–1909; was a counsel for the Alaskan Boundary Tribunal, 1903; was president of the American Bar Association, 1907–1908; helped organize the American Society of International Law, served on its executive council from 1907 to 1910, and was its vice president in 1910.
The Saturday Evening Post described Jacob Dickinson as, "broad-shouldered, upstanding clear-eyed, soft spoken, straightforward Tennessean and one of the few really great lawyers of the United States. He stands close to the top of the bar. His friends say he stands at the exact top, but that is a matter for lawyers to decide. There can be no disputing the statement that he is one of the leaders in his profession" (1). It is no wonder that President Taft chose him to serve as Secretary of War, March 1909–1911. The Saturday Evening Post further intimated that Jacob Dickinson was "a sane man, a conservative man, a hard- headed, common-sensed man, as big mentally as he is physically, and as big physically as Taft himself, barring thirty pounds or so of paunch. Judge Dickinson is six feet and three inches tall and weighs about two hundred and seventy pounds, whereas the president is six feet and two inches tall and weighs (whisper) about three hundred pounds. Big men like big men. So, when Taft was judge and Dickinson appeared before him, they became friends. They are friends yet, close, intimate friends, for Dickinson's mind is a great deal like Taft's. Dickinson has the same judicial quality of determination on facts, the power of weighing and deciding. He is a great administrator, and, like Taft he works all the time when he is working and plays all the time when he is playing (1). He proposed legislation to permit the admission of foreign students to West Point; recommended an annuity retirement system for civil service employees; suggested that Congress consider stopping the pay of soldiers rendered unfit for duty because of venereal disease or alcoholism as a means of combatting those problems; was a special assistant attorney general, helped prosecute the U.S. Steel Corporation in 1913, and acted in several important labor cases in 1922; was receiver of the Rock Island Lines, 1915–1917; was president of the Izaak Walton League, 1927–1928. Zollicoffer Bond described Judge Dickinson as the "greatest living citizen of Nashville."
Jacob McGavock Dickinson married, on April 20, 1876, Martha "Margaret" Maxwell Overton. Three children were born to their union: Overton Dickson (1877), Henry Dickson (1881), and Jacob McGavock Dickinson Jr. (1891). Various times Dickinson owned three of Nashville's historic estates: Ensworth, Polk Place, and Belle Meade. Jacob Dickinson was also kinsman of the Hardings and bought the Harding Bell Meade Mansion, along with 400 acres, in 1906. He bought Belle Meade with the idea of having it as a place to entertain and as a retreat. It was during his tenure that President Taft was entertained there in the summer of 1909. When business called him elsewhere, his eldest son, Overton, and family lived there. A very unfortunate tragedy occurred: both Overton and his wife died from complications incurred with influenza. Broken heartened he sold Belle Meade, and rumor has it that he never went there again. His two little grandchildren were entrusted to the care of his sister-in-law. Jacob McGavock Dickson was very attentive to their well-being, education, and took them on many wonderful trips.
Martha Maxwell Dickinson died on March 9, 1917 in Nashville, Tennessee. Jacob McGavock Dickson died in Nashville, Tennessee, on December 13, 1928 in Chicago, Illinois.
Col Henry Dickinson was commander of the Tennessee National Guard.
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Five Year Record: Class of 1905
By Yale University, Scheffeld Scientific School
Henry Dickinson
Residence - Federal Avenue, Seattle, Wash.
Business Address - 816 White Building, Seattle, Wash.
Born December 3, 1881, at Nashville, Tenn., son of J. M. Dickinson, born in Columbia, Mississippi, a graduate of the University of Nashville, received his L.L.D. degree from Columbia and Yale, and studied in Leipsig and Paris. He was general counsel of the Illinois Central Railroad and is now Secretary of War and resides in Washington, D.C. His mother, Martha Maxwell (Overton) Dickinson, was born in Nashville, Tenn. He has two brothers: John Overton Dickinson, University of Virginia ex-'1897, and J, M. Dickinson, Jr., Yale 1913.
He prepared at Lawrenceville, Black Hall and at other private schools, entering Sheff in September 1902, where he took the Select Course and was a member of Berzelius and the Kopper Kettle Klub.
He married on February 14, 1907, at Nashville, Tenn. to Ms. Ida Hamilton Thompson. They have one son, Henry Dickinson, jr., born August 8, 1908.
Dickinson was Vice President of the Great Northern Mill Company of Seattle, Wash., which position he occupied from June 10, 1908 to September 24, 1909. He is now president and treasurer of the Henry Dickinson Lumber Company, incorporated, of Seattle, Washington. He is a member of the First Presbyterian Church, and belongs to the University, Gold and Country, Ranier, Seattle Hunt, and Commercial Clubs of Seattle, and to the Seattle Chamber of Commerce. Concerning his life since leaving college he says: "Left Yale when the Class did, and enjoyed life for the short space of five weeks in Tennessee. Went to work at Griffin Wheel Company, Chicago, for sixty per month On August 1, 1905. Got three raises. Left Griffin in fall of 1906 and again saw something of life for a month. Money gave out. Came to Seattle with the "Mucker" in the middle of December 1906. Didn't get a job although I tried hard for one. Consequently I went home and got married February, 1907. Job was easy to get on return to Seattle. Since then have occupied the following positions: treasurer of the North American Investment Company: secretary and treasurer of Russell & Dickinson Inc.; treasurer of the Union Fish & Packet Co.; trustee Elliott Bay Ironworks; auditor of the Great Northern Mill Company; and vice president of the same company. Occupy all of the above positions now except those with the North American Investment Company & Russell & Dickinson, Inc. and Great Northern Mill Company. Have had an extremely happy and satisfactory life since coming out here, and I expect to stay indefinitely. Have lost almost as much money as I have made since getting here exclusive of living expenses. Our son was born on August 8, 1908 and on account of his pleasing appearance it was immediately decided to inflict him with his father's name. He will enter Yale in the class of 1931, and I hope will have less trouble getting through than I did.
ABOUT HIS FATHER:
U.S. Presidential Cabinet Secretary. During the Civil War, he enlisted at fourteen as a Private in the Confederate Army, serving (1861-65). After the war, he graduated from the University of Nashville in 1871, studied law and was admitted to the Tennessee bar in 1874. He served as president of the Tennessee Bar Association, (1889-93), was a member of the Tennessee Supreme Court, (1891-93). He also was Assistant Attorney General of the United States, (1895-97) and from 1897 to 1899, a Professor of Law at the Vanderbilt University Law School and an attorney for the Louisville & Nashville Rail Railroad, (1897-99). Moving to Chicago, he was general solicitor counsel for the Illinois Central Railroad, (1899-1909) and was president of the American Bar Association. In 1909, President Taft appointed him to his cabinet as the U.S. Secretary of War, serving until 1911. During his tenure, he proposed legislation to permit the admission of foreign students to West Point and recommended an annuity retirement system for civil service employees. After his term, he served as a special assistant attorney general and acted in several important labor cases. He was president of the Izaak Walton League from 1927 until his death at age 77. (
DICKINSON RESIGNS
Secretary of War Quite Cabinet
to Enter Business.
STIMSON TO SUCCEED HIM
Recent N. Y. Gubernatorial Candidate
begins Duties Monday Selection
Made With Only Few Days'
Consideration, Greatly Pleases
President Taft -- Politicians Here
See Attempt of Administration to
Straighten Out Tangle in Republican
Party of Empire State
Secretary of War Jacon McGavock Dickinson, of Tennessee, the Democratic member of President Taft's cabinet, has resigned. Henry L. Stinson, of New York, recently defeated Republican candidate for governor of that state, has been given the War portfolio. This announcement was made at the White House last night and occasioned great [_______].
Jacob McGavock Dickinson was born in Columbus, Mississippi, on January 30, 1851. He was the son of Henry Dickinson and Anne Eliza McGavock Dickson. At the very young age of thirteen or fourteen he enlisted as a private in the Confederate cavalry. At the close of the war, he moved with his family to Nashville, Tennessee where he attended and graduated from the University of Nashville in 1871 and received his master's degree in 1872. He studied law briefly at Columbia University and continued his studies abroad in Leipzig and Paris and was admitted to the Tennessee bar in 1874. He served as president of the Tennessee Bar Association, 1889-1883, and was attorney general of the United States, 1895-1897, was attorney for the Louisville & Nashville Railroad, 1897–1899; moved to Chicago, Illinois, 1899; became general solicitor for the Illinois Central Railroad, 1899–1901, and general counsel, 1901–1909; was a counsel for the Alaskan Boundary Tribunal, 1903; was president of the American Bar Association, 1907–1908; helped organize the American Society of International Law, served on its executive council from 1907 to 1910, and was its vice president in 1910.
The Saturday Evening Post described Jacob Dickinson as, "broad-shouldered, upstanding clear-eyed, soft spoken, straightforward Tennessean and one of the few really great lawyers of the United States. He stands close to the top of the bar. His friends say he stands at the exact top, but that is a matter for lawyers to decide. There can be no disputing the statement that he is one of the leaders in his profession" (1). It is no wonder that President Taft chose him to serve as Secretary of War, March 1909–1911. The Saturday Evening Post further intimated that Jacob Dickinson was "a sane man, a conservative man, a hard- headed, common-sensed man, as big mentally as he is physically, and as big physically as Taft himself, barring thirty pounds or so of paunch. Judge Dickinson is six feet and three inches tall and weighs about two hundred and seventy pounds, whereas the president is six feet and two inches tall and weighs (whisper) about three hundred pounds. Big men like big men. So, when Taft was judge and Dickinson appeared before him, they became friends. They are friends yet, close, intimate friends, for Dickinson's mind is a great deal like Taft's. Dickinson has the same judicial quality of determination on facts, the power of weighing and deciding. He is a great administrator, and, like Taft he works all the time when he is working and plays all the time when he is playing (1). He proposed legislation to permit the admission of foreign students to West Point; recommended an annuity retirement system for civil service employees; suggested that Congress consider stopping the pay of soldiers rendered unfit for duty because of venereal disease or alcoholism as a means of combatting those problems; was a special assistant attorney general, helped prosecute the U.S. Steel Corporation in 1913, and acted in several important labor cases in 1922; was receiver of the Rock Island Lines, 1915–1917; was president of the Izaak Walton League, 1927–1928. Zollicoffer Bond described Judge Dickinson as the "greatest living citizen of Nashville."
Jacob McGavock Dickinson married, on April 20, 1876, Martha "Margaret" Maxwell Overton. Three children were born to their union: Overton Dickson (1877), Henry Dickson (1881), and Jacob McGavock Dickinson Jr. (1891). Various times Dickinson owned three of Nashville's historic estates: Ensworth, Polk Place, and Belle Meade. Jacob Dickinson was also kinsman of the Hardings and bought the Harding Bell Meade Mansion, along with 400 acres, in 1906. He bought Belle Meade with the idea of having it as a place to entertain and as a retreat. It was during his tenure that President Taft was entertained there in the summer of 1909. When business called him elsewhere, his eldest son, Overton, and family lived there. A very unfortunate tragedy occurred: both Overton and his wife died from complications incurred with influenza. Broken heartened he sold Belle Meade, and rumor has it that he never went there again. His two little grandchildren were entrusted to the care of his sister-in-law. Jacob McGavock Dickson was very attentive to their well-being, education, and took them on many wonderful trips.
Martha Maxwell Dickinson died on March 9, 1917 in Nashville, Tennessee. Jacob McGavock Dickson died in Nashville, Tennessee, on December 13, 1928 in Chicago, Illinois.
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Five Year Record: Class of 1905
By Yale University, Scheffeld Scientific School
Henry Dickinson
Residence - Federal Avenue, Seattle, Wash.
Business Address - 816 White Building, Seattle, Wash.
Born December 3, 1881, at Nashville, Tenn., son of J. M. Dickinson, born in Columbia, Mississippi, a graduate of the University of Nashville, received his L.L.D. degree from Columbia and Yale, and studied in Leipsig and Paris. He was general counsel of the Illinois Central Railroad and is now Secretary of War and resides in Washington, D.C. His mother, Martha Maxwell (Overton) Dickinson, was born in Nashville, Tenn. He has two brothers: John Overton Dickinson, University of Virginia ex-'1897, and J, M. Dickinson, Jr., Yale 1913.
He prepared at Lawrenceville, Black Hall and at other private schools, entering Sheff in September 1902, where he took the Select Course and was a member of Berzelius and the Kopper Kettle Klub.
He married on February 14, 1907, at Nashville, Tenn. to Ms. Ida Hamilton Thompson. They have one son, Henry Dickinson, jr., born August 8, 1908.
Dickinson was Vice President of the Great Northern Mill Company of Seattle, Wash., which position he occupied from June 10, 1908 to September 24, 1909. He is now president and treasurer of the Henry Dickinson Lumber Company, incorporated, of Seattle, Washington. He is a member of the First Presbyterian Church, and belongs to the University, Gold and Country, Ranier, Seattle Hunt, and Commercial Clubs of Seattle, and to the Seattle Chamber of Commerce. Concerning his life since leaving college he says: "Left Yale when the Class did, and enjoyed life for the short space of five weeks in Tennessee. Went to work at Griffin Wheel Company, Chicago, for sixty per month On August 1, 1905. Got three raises. Left Griffin in fall of 1906 and again saw something of life for a month. Money gave out. Came to Seattle with the "Mucker" in the middle of December 1906. Didn't get a job although I tried hard for one. Consequently I went home and got married February, 1907. Job was easy to get on return to Seattle. Since then have occupied the following positions: treasurer of the North American Investment Company: secretary and treasurer of Russell & Dickinson Inc.; treasurer of the Union Fish & Packet Co.; trustee Elliott Bay Ironworks; auditor of the Great Northern Mill Company; and vice president of the same company. Occupy all of the above positions now except those with the North American Investment Company & Russell & Dickinson, Inc. and Great Northern Mill Company. Have had an extremely happy and satisfactory life since coming out here, and I expect to stay indefinitely. Have lost almost as much money as I have made since getting here exclusive of living expenses. Our son was born on August 8, 1908 and on account of his pleasing appearance it was immediately decided to inflict him with his father's name. He will enter Yale in the class of 1931, and I hope will have less trouble getting through than I did.
ABOUT HIS FATHER:
U.S. Presidential Cabinet Secretary. During the Civil War, he enlisted at fourteen as a Private in the Confederate Army, serving (1861-65). After the war, he graduated from the University of Nashville in 1871, studied law and was admitted to the Tennessee bar in 1874. He served as president of the Tennessee Bar Association, (1889-93), was a member of the Tennessee Supreme Court, (1891-93). He also was Assistant Attorney General of the United States, (1895-97) and from 1897 to 1899, a Professor of Law at the Vanderbilt University Law School and an attorney for the Louisville & Nashville Rail Railroad, (1897-99). Moving to Chicago, he was general solicitor counsel for the Illinois Central Railroad, (1899-1909) and was president of the American Bar Association. In 1909, President Taft appointed him to his cabinet as the U.S. Secretary of War, serving until 1911. During his tenure, he proposed legislation to permit the admission of foreign students to West Point and recommended an annuity retirement system for civil service employees. After his term, he served as a special assistant attorney general and acted in several important labor cases. He was president of the Izaak Walton League from 1927 until his death at age 77. (
DICKINSON RESIGNS
Secretary of War Quite Cabinet
to Enter Business.
STIMSON TO SUCCEED HIM
Recent N. Y. Gubernatorial Candidate
begins Duties Monday Selection
Made With Only Few Days'
Consideration, Greatly Pleases
President Taft -- Politicians Here
See Attempt of Administration to
Straighten Out Tangle in Republican
Party of Empire State
Secretary of War Jacon McGavock Dickinson, of Tennessee, the Democratic member of President Taft's cabinet, has resigned. Henry L. Stinson, of New York, recently defeated Republican candidate for governor of that state, has been given the War portfolio. This announcement was made at the White House last night and occasioned great [_______].
Jacob McGavock Dickinson was born in Columbus, Mississippi, on January 30, 1851. He was the son of Henry Dickinson and Anne Eliza McGavock Dickson. At the very young age of thirteen or fourteen he enlisted as a private in the Confederate cavalry. At the close of the war, he moved with his family to Nashville, Tennessee where he attended and graduated from the University of Nashville in 1871 and received his master's degree in 1872. He studied law briefly at Columbia University and continued his studies abroad in Leipzig and Paris and was admitted to the Tennessee bar in 1874. He served as president of the Tennessee Bar Association, 1889-1883, and was attorney general of the United States, 1895-1897, was attorney for the Louisville & Nashville Railroad, 1897–1899; moved to Chicago, Illinois, 1899; became general solicitor for the Illinois Central Railroad, 1899–1901, and general counsel, 1901–1909; was a counsel for the Alaskan Boundary Tribunal, 1903; was president of the American Bar Association, 1907–1908; helped organize the American Society of International Law, served on its executive council from 1907 to 1910, and was its vice president in 1910.
The Saturday Evening Post described Jacob Dickinson as, "broad-shouldered, upstanding clear-eyed, soft spoken, straightforward Tennessean and one of the few really great lawyers of the United States. He stands close to the top of the bar. His friends say he stands at the exact top, but that is a matter for lawyers to decide. There can be no disputing the statement that he is one of the leaders in his profession" (1). It is no wonder that President Taft chose him to serve as Secretary of War, March 1909–1911. The Saturday Evening Post further intimated that Jacob Dickinson was "a sane man, a conservative man, a hard- headed, common-sensed man, as big mentally as he is physically, and as big physically as Taft himself, barring thirty pounds or so of paunch. Judge Dickinson is six feet and three inches tall and weighs about two hundred and seventy pounds, whereas the president is six feet and two inches tall and weighs (whisper) about three hundred pounds. Big men like big men. So, when Taft was judge and Dickinson appeared before him, they became friends. They are friends yet, close, intimate friends, for Dickinson's mind is a great deal like Taft's. Dickinson has the same judicial quality of determination on facts, the power of weighing and deciding. He is a great administrator, and, like Taft he works all the time when he is working and plays all the time when he is playing (1). He proposed legislation to permit the admission of foreign students to West Point; recommended an annuity retirement system for civil service employees; suggested that Congress consider stopping the pay of soldiers rendered unfit for duty because of venereal disease or alcoholism as a means of combatting those problems; was a special assistant attorney general, helped prosecute the U.S. Steel Corporation in 1913, and acted in several important labor cases in 1922; was receiver of the Rock Island Lines, 1915–1917; was president of the Izaak Walton League, 1927–1928. Zollicoffer Bond described Judge Dickinson as the "greatest living citizen of Nashville."
Jacob McGavock Dickinson married, on April 20, 1876, Martha "Margaret" Maxwell Overton. Three children were born to their union: Overton Dickson (1877), Henry Dickson (1881), and Jacob McGavock Dickinson Jr. (1891). Various times Dickinson owned three of Nashville's historic estates: Ensworth, Polk Place, and Belle Meade. Jacob Dickinson was also kinsman of the Hardings and bought the Harding Bell Meade Mansion, along with 400 acres, in 1906. He bought Belle Meade with the idea of having it as a place to entertain and as a retreat. It was during his tenure that President Taft was entertained there in the summer of 1909. When business called him elsewhere, his eldest son, Overton, and family lived there. A very unfortunate tragedy occurred: both Overton and his wife died from complications incurred with influenza. Broken heartened he sold Belle Meade, and rumor has it that he never went there again. His two little grandchildren were entrusted to the care of his sister-in-law. Jacob McGavock Dickson was very attentive to their well-being, education, and took them on many wonderful trips.
Martha Maxwell Dickinson died on March 9, 1917 in Nashville, Tennessee. Jacob McGavock Dickson died in Nashville, Tennessee, on December 13, 1928 in Chicago, Illinois.
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