Capt. Adam Dixon 1827 Eng + Anna Lightfoot>Livingston NY>+ Mary Harder>KS
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CAPT. ADAM DIXON, farmer and sheep raiser, Freedom Township, was born at Wigton, Cumberland County, England, July 4, 1827, and raised there, remaining until twenty-four years of age and was engaged in mechanical labor. On February 24, 1851, he was united in marriage to Miss Ann Lightfoot, a native of the same county, and the following March sailed from Liverpool for the United States, landing in New York City, April 29, 1851. He soon after located at Hemlock Lake, Livingston County, N. Y., where he engaged in the merchant tailoring business, following this until the war broke out. In October, 1861, he enlisted as a private in the Wadsworth Guards at Geneseo, N. Y. and was mustered into the United States Service with the One Hundred and Fourth New York Volunteer Infantry, November 2, 1861, and actively participated with the First Corps, Army of the Potomac, from Cedar Mountain to Gettysburg. He was promoted to First Sergeant and commanded Company G through the second battle of Bull Run. On September 12, 1862, he was promoted to Second Lieutenant for general good conduct and efficiency while on duty. On October 21, 1862, he was promoted to First Lieutenant, after the battle of Antietam, and as First Lieutenant went into the five days' battle of Chancellorsville, Va., in command of Company G; also had command of the company at the battle of Gettysburg, but on the evening of the first day was captured and held as a prisoner of war for twenty months, confined in the so-called military prison of the South, having during this time made three unsuccessful attempts to escape to the Union lines. He was afterward promoted, receiving a Captain's commission for gallant and meritorious conduct while before the enemy, commission to date from May 25, 1863. March 1, 1865, he was exchanged at Wilmington, N. C.; was discharged and mustered out of service at Elmira, N. Y., July 28, 1865. In 1867 he settled in Maryland, remaining there until 1870, but finding it unpleasant for a Union soldier to live there, he sold out at a great sacrifice and emigrated to Kansas, locating in Republic County, and took a homestead on Section 24, Township 2, Range 3, on April 12, 1870, and at once began to improve it. He has added eighty acres, making a farm of 240 acres. This has been finely improved. He has a good house and barns, a fine peach and apple orchard, besides small fruit of all kinds. The place is well watered by Salt Creek and numerous fine springs. Mr. Dixon is the champion sheep raiser of Republic County, or Northern Kansas. In 1877 he started in the business with 311 common Missouri sheep and has been improving the grade by importing some full blood rams from England. In 1880 he imported two full blood Southdown rams at great cost per head and then bought rams in Western New York, and again in 1881, imported two more full blood Southdown rams from the celebrated Lord Walsingham flock, which took the first premium at the Centennial Exposition over all the world. These are the only sheep of this blood in Northern Kansas, and Mr. Dixon has the first flock of sheep in the country. The average clip is nine and one-half pounds, while merino rams imported go from twenty-six and one-half to thirty-two and one-half pounds. His flock now numbers 558. In four years his sales on wool and mutton have been between $4,000 and $5,000. The interest must have paid 125 per cent per annum. Mr. Dixon has taken great pains with his sheep and thinks there is no reason why wool growing is not one of the best industries of this State. He is considered the most practical sheep breeder in Northern Kansas and there is no doubt but he is making the largest per cent on the investment of any one in the same line in the country, as he is well situated to care for them and has a thorough knowledge of the business. Mr. Dixon also imported a pair of full-blood Scotch Collie shepherd dogs from Scotland. Mr. Dixon is one of the most public-spirited men in the country; he is president of the Wool-growers' Association of Republic County; is also United States Commissioner for the State of Kansas, receiving his appointment in January, 1882. Mr. Dixon has a host of friends and is one of the most substantial men in the county. The letters which are appended to this biography will show how he co-operated with those who came in contact with him. He had five children by his first wife, (who died at Hemlock Lake, August 3, 1866,) viz: Joseph K.. born at Hemlock Lake, N. Y., December 8, 1853; Mary E., born at Livonia Centre, N. Y., May 27, 1855; John L., born at Hemlock Lake, N. Y,, May 10, 1837; William E., born at Hemlock Lake. N. Y., June 23, 1860; Thomas G., born at Hemlock Lake, N. Y., July 30, 1866,--died July 6, 1881. He was married in 1867, to Mary J. Harder of Livonia, Livingston County. N. Y. They have been blessed with one son, Robert Vickers, born April 29, 1875. Mr. Dixon is a member of John Brown Post, No. 44, G. A. R. and of Belleville Lodge, No. 96, I. O. O. F.
CAPT. ADAM DIXON: GENESEO, N. Y., December 14, 1869.
My Dear Sir:--
I have much pleasure in expressing to you my appreciation of all your good qualities of head and heart, while we were associated together as members of the late One Hundred and Fourth Regiment of New York Volunteers, and to convey to you my acknowledgment of all the kindly relations which ever existed between us. No company ever owed more to the tact and discipline of an Orderly Sergeant in moulding it into shape than ours did to you, and for that in the beginning, as well as your faithful, prompt and efficient discharge of every duty, it was my pleasure, as well as duty to the service, to aid in procuring your several promotions to the rank of Captain. Not that it required urging, for your merits were well recognized by all who preceded me in the command of the regiment. Further than that I desire to express to you my regard for you as a man. Our relations have been somewhat intimate for several years, and not only in our army relations, but, in our business transactions since, I have ever found you prompt, reliable, a faithful friend on whose good opinion I count with pleasure at all times.
Very respectfully yours,
JOHN R. STRANG,
Late Colonel One Hundred and Fourth Regiment, New York Volunteers.
GENESEO, N. Y, January 22, 1876.
To whom it may concern:--
I very gladly certify that Adam Dixon. Esq., now of Belleville, Kan., was a soldier in the One Hundred and Fourth Regiment, New York State Volunteers, during the war of the Rebellion, entering active service in 1862, as Orderly Sergeant of Company G, and retiring in 1865, with a Captain's commission. And that, during the whole of such time, his conduct as a soldier and a gentleman was such as to entitle him to the entire and high regard and respect of all who were brought in contact with him. His frequent promotion shows the estimation in which he was held as a soldier in his regiment and that he retired with the cordial good wishes of all his brother officers I know. Any claim which he may have a against the United States, and may ask Congress to allow, I believe to be presented in the most entire good faith. JOHN R. STRANG.
Late Colonel One Hundred and Fourth New York Volunteers.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT, SECOND AUDITOR'S OFFICE,
WASHINGTON, D. C. July 27, 1882.
ADAM DIXON, ESQ.,
Late Captain One Hundred and Fourth View York Volunteers,
Sir:--
In transmitting to you a formal certificate that you are not indebted to the United States on the books of this office, I take occasion to express my appreciation of the honesty and straightforwardness which prompted you to voluntarily refund an over payment that the accounting officers of the Treasury Department had failed to discover.
Very respectfully, O. FERRISS, Auditor.
ROCHESTER, N. Y., July 16, 1863.
MRS. ANNA DIXON:
Yours of the 15th inst., reached me this morning. I will cheerfully give you such information as I have, and should have written you before this, had I not supposed that your husband's letters contained as much as I know. We were captured together; I was with him during the battle, and can assure you that he fought bravely, and was among the last men of his regiment to leave the line we were ordered to hold. On the evening of the 1st, we surrendered, and were marched into a field about three miles to the rear of the battle field. The Rebels treated us well in every respect, except that they did not give us sufficient food; their excuse for this was, that their army was, engaged, and they had not time to attend to getting rations for themselves. On the 3rd inst., a parole was offered to the prisoners; I accepted it on account of ill-health; had I been well, I should have refused it. Your husband and about one hundred and thirty other officers refused it, and they were started for Richmond; when they reach that place, they will be exchanged soon, probably, for our government has plenty of prisoners to return for them. Your husband was in good health, and I think that he will, without doubt, be able to endure such hardships as he may meet. I was sent inside our lines, and so came home. I have no means of knowing anything positively as to your husband, since the 3d inst., but I feel sure that he is well, and will return safely.
I am, very truly yours,
HOMER STULL,
First Lieutenant and Adjutant, One Hundred and Fourth Regiment, New York State Volunteers