History of Fulton County, Illinois; together with
Sketches of its Cities, Villages and Townships, Educational, Religious,
Civil, Military, and Political History; Portraits of Prominent Persons
and Biographies of Representative Citizens. Chas. C. Chapman & Co.,
Peoria, Illinois, 1879, page 937, Waterford Township
Wm. Dickson was born in Kentucky April 17, 1826, son of
Alexander and Mary (Musett), of English ancestry; came to Fulton Co. in
1834; is a farmer on sec. 1, owning 400 acres; in 1849 he married Nancy
Jane Arnett, and had 3 boys and 1 girl; in 1873 he married Mary Ashby,
by whom he has had 2 daughters. Names: John W., Charles M., David L.,
Anna A., Minnie M. and Francis C. Mr. Dickson has been a local preacher
in the M. E. Church for 20 years.
