Jesse C. Dickey
Template:Short description Template:Use mdy dates Script error: No such module "infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Script error: No such module "Check for conflicting parameters". Jesse Column Dickey (February 27, 1808 – February 19, 1890) was a Whig member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. He also served in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives.
Early life
Jesse Column Dickey was born on February 27, 1808, in New Castle, Pennsylvania. He moved with his parents to New London, Chester County, Pennsylvania, in 1812. He graduated from New London Academy.[1][2]
Career
Dickey began teaching school at Hopewell Academy in 1828. He also engaged in agricultural pursuits.[1]
Dickey was elected as a Whig to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, representing Chester County. He served from 1843 to 1845.[3][4] He elected as a Whig to the Thirty-first Congress. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the Thirty-second Congress. During the American Civil War, he served under Cassius M. Clay during the Defense of Washington. He then was quartermaster and later paymaster in the United States Army. He served until June 1866. He traveled extensively in his role as paymaster and worked in St. Louis and New Orleans.[1][2]
Personal life
On December 11, 1834, he married Margaret J. Dickey, the daughter of Col. David Dickey of Hopewell Cotton Mill, near Oxford. They had nine children.[1] His daughter Letitia married Aaron B. Storey.[2]
Dickey died in New London in 1891, and was interred in New London Presbyterian Church Cemetery.[1]
References
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- The Political Graveyard
- History of Chester County, Pennsylvania with Genealogical and Biographical Sketches (1881) and Families and Persons. By J. Smith Futhey and Gilbert Cope.
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