Baxter Dickinson
Baxter Dickinson (April 14, 1795 – December 5, 1875) was an American minister.
Dickinson, youngest son of Azariah and Mary (Eastman) Dickinson, was born in
Cincinnati. After four years of active devotion to the interests of that institution, he accepted an appointment to the corresponding chair in the seminary in Auburn, N.Y., and held the position eight years. For ten years he served the American and Foreign Christian Union as one of its District Secretaries at New York and Boston, and then removed with his family to Lake Forest
, near Chicago, where with them he opened a Young Ladies' Seminary, which was successfully maintained until 1867. The infirmities of age rendering necessary a retirement from all labor, he removed in 1868 to Brooklyn, N. Y., to spend his closing years, and died in that city, December 5, 1875.
In 1838 he received the degree of
Presbyterian Church, and received the endorsement of both branches at the late Reunion. In 1839 he was the moderator of the New School General Assembly
. He published several sermons, and some of these, as well as a volume of Letters to Students, were republished in England.
Dr. Dickinson was married, June 4, 1823, to Martha Bush, of Boylston, Mass., who survived him. Of their nine children, one son and three daughters survived him. Two of the sons graduated at Amherst College, Rev. Richard Salter Storrs Dickinson in 1844 and Rev. William Cowper Dickinson in 1848.[1] William Cowper Dickinson's son was organist Clarence Dickinson.[2]
External links
- Baxter Dickinson at Find a Grave
- Daniel and Tammy Dickinson Family Papers at the Amherst College Archives & Special Collections
References
- ^ "Collection: Daniel and Tammy Dickinson Family Papers | Amherst College - ArchivesSpace". archivesspace.amherst.edu. Retrieved 2022-12-14.
- ^ Dickinson, Clarence (June 9, 2008). "From the Dickinson Collection: Reminiscences by Clarence Dickinson, Part 1: 1873-1898". The Diapason.
This article incorporates public domain material from the Yale Obituary Record.
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