Solano County
Biographies
W. A. DASHIELL
was born in Somerset county, Maryland, on May 6, 1825. In the years 1835-40 he attended college in New Jersey. In the following year he entered the Military Academy at West Point, from which he graduated in June, 1845. He next traveled through the Western States until the spring of 1849, when he came to California and engaged in stock raising in Sacramento until 1853, when he left the Pacific coast for Missouri, and there purchased sheep and cattle, with which he returned to this State, arriving in Los Angeles in December, 1853; and from thence proceeded to Sacramento, there following his avocation until 1856, and then moved into Solano county. From 1859 to 1862 he was traveling, after which he once more settled in this county; was agent for the California Pacific Railroad Company for three years when it first came through Dixon, since then he has been dealing in stock; is an insurance and real estate agent; held the office of Assessor for the Third District, to which he was elected September 4, 1867. Mr. Dashiell married, December 25, 1854, Miss Hester McKinley, who was born in Illinois, April 19, 1834, by whom he has: Matilda, Katie, Charlotte, (dead) Edward E., Agnes, George B., Fred., Annie, Benjamin, Hester, Robert, and Jessie.
History of Solano County…. – San Francisco, Cal. - Wood, Alley & Co., East Oakland, pub 1879
pp 495-496
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler
THOMAS DICKSON
was born in Pennsylvania on June 4, 1800. In 1804 he moved with his parents to Allegany county, New York, and remained there for about fifteen years, when they moved to Indiana. In 1832 served as a soldier in the Black Hawk war; in 1835 emigrated to Iowa, and in 1853 came to Diamond Springs, California, prosecuting mining for one year. In the following year he forsook the gold region and removed to Solano county and rented a piece of land one mile in a north-easterly direction from where the city of Dixon now stands. Mr. Dickson built the first house within the corporation limits of that city in the year 1855, which he has since enlarged. He has engaged in farming ever since he settled in the county. Mr. D. married, in 1833, Miss J. P. Hood, a native of Knoxville, Tennessee, who was born December 13, 1813, by whom he has: Elizabeth F., born February 1, 1834; William B., born April 16, 1836; Martin A., born January 2, 1840; Henry A., born March 31, 1843; Nathan, born August 12, 1846; James, born February 13, 1849, (since dead); Eva B., born July 14, 1853; and James, born December 4, 1855, (since deceased).
History of Solano County…. – San Francisco, Cal. - Wood, Alley & Co., East Oakland, pub 1879
pp 496
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler