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Myron Dickson, clothier and farmer, one of the leading business citizens of Martinsville, Indiana, was born 16 Oct., 1845 in Fulton, Ill. son of James Clarke and Sibyl (Kendall) Dickson). The father was a native of Vermont and the mother of Massachusetts. Myron was one of seven children born to them, the other survivors being: Carlos of Chicago, Ill; Wallace E. of Martinsville; and Alice Josephine, wife of A. W. Hester of Chicago, Illinois. The Dickson are descended from Richard or Dick or Feith or Keth; a son of the family of Keith or Keth, Earls of Marshall, one of the most powerful families of Scotland, at a time when with the sole exception of the royal family the rank of Earl was the highest in the kingdom. This familly had such great possessions that it was formerly said that they could journey from the north to the south of Scotland and sleep ver night in their own castle. The mother of Richard of Keith was a duaghter of Douglas. Richard was born in 1247. His sons were styled Dick after him. Thus, the origin of the name, the word son being affixed in the Lowlands, in the same manner as MAC was prefixed in the Highlands. Descendants of the family are settled mostly in the counties of Peebles and Berwick; also in Lanarkshire.
The Dickson Clan was one of the most prominent of the Border Clans. Most of the clansmen were "Lairds," many occupying high positions in Parliament, the Scotch Government and local affiars. The Border Clans were Hume, Elliott, Johnston, Graham, Irving, Armstrong, Cranston, Cockburn, Maxwell, Gladstone, etc. Archdeacon Barbour writes at length of them in 1375. Blind Harry, the famous minstrel sings of the exploits of Thomas Dickson in 1381. Robert Dickson married into the Douglas family and his coat-oof-arms carries three stars of the Douglas coat. These stars are called mullets in heraldry. Its motto: 'Fortune favors the vrave.' The two other coats of arms in the family are first: "A human hear in blood, red color, with silver wing on eighter side.' Motto: 'Heavenward." Second: "A deer couchant (lying down) with its head up in a wreath of laurel." Motto: Though lying down I am on the watch (continued)
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