ELLIOT DICKERMAN Born 11 March 1822 in Mount Holly, Vermont Died 2 May 1874 in Middlefield, Connecticut Married on 16 Feb 1855 to NANCY MOSER Born 6 June 1822 From "Families of Dickerman Ancestry", published in 1897 by Edward Dwight Dickerman and George Sherwood Dickerman, and financed by Watson Bradley Dickerman, p. 365: Elliott Dickerman, the youngest child of the family, was left fatherless at the age of four. He was physically delicate but with a keen and active mind. At the age of seventeen he visited his brother in Illinois and induced to teach the winter a district school. The county was rough then and so were the boys and there were several contests over who should rule, which he settled by the force of superior will. Returning from the west, he attended school at Castleton Seminary, where he made a reputation as a poet by some graceful verses that he wrote. He engaged in the work of a colporteur and in other occupations until he entered the ministry, joining the Vermont Conference in 1856. He filled several appointments when his failing health obliged him to stop preaching for a time. Having a taste for machinery, he turned his attention that way and invented a clothes wringer. Going to Connecticut to dispose of the patent, he found a man who had invented a similar machine, each having worked out his idea without knowing the other. The two machines were combined into the Universal Clothes Wringer and was manufactured at Middlefield, Conn., by a company, of which Mr. Dickerman was a member. This led to his removal with his family to that place. Here he preached occasionally, and after a while regularly, for three or four years. Being greatly interested in temperance reform, he bought and edited a paper which was prublished in Hartford under the name of the State Temperance Journal. Just at this time the state branch of the Prohibition Party was started and he assisted in it with enthusiasm. This was his last public work. He was first a Whig, then a Republican and last a Prohibitionist. He was an unusually conscientious man, with a clear perception of right and wrong, and unwavering determination to follow what he thought to be his duty regardless of consequences. As his ideas were progressive, this somtimes led him where most would fear to tread. After a short illness he died proving in his death the efficacy of the truth he had preached. History of Greene Co., Illinois p. 915 states that "Mr. Dickerman" and others taught and trained youths of the growing town (Greenfield, IL) in the mysteries of the three R;s until 1844. Note: Apparently the brother mentioned above that Elliott visited was Nelson Dickerman since his teaching in Greene County, Illinois was recorded in the history book. CHILDREN OF ELLIOT AND NANCY ARE AS FOLLOWS: 1. FRANK DICKERMAN Born 24 Oct 1856 in Brookfield, VT. 2. ADDIE NANCY DICKERMAN Born 13 Jan 1859 in Morristown, VT. 3. ALLEN ELSWORTH DICKERMAN Born 13 July 1861 in Middlefield, CT; Married on 22 Jan 1895 to Elizabeth Richardson of Winsted, CT. 4. ARTHUR LYMAN DICKERMAN Born Apr 1869 in Colebrook River, CT. Died Feb 1871 in Middlefield, CT. |
ELLIOT DICKERMAN Born 11 March 1822 in Mount Holly, Vermont Died 2 May 1874 in Middlefield, Connecticut Married on 16 Feb 1855 to NANCY MOSER Born 6 June 1822 From "Families of Dickerman Ancestry", published in 1897 by Edward Dwight Dickerman and George Sherwood Dickerman, and financed by Watson Bradley Dickerman, p. 365: Elliott Dickerman, the youngest child of the family, was left fatherless at the age of four. He was physically delicate but with a keen and active mind. At the age of seventeen he visited his brother in Illinois and induced to teach the winter a district school. The county was rough then and so were the boys and there were several contests over who should rule, which he settled by the force of superior will. Returning from the west, he attended school at Castleton Seminary, where he made a reputation as a poet by some graceful verses that he wrote. He engaged in the work of a colporteur and in other occupations until he entered the ministry, joining the Vermont Conference in 1856. He filled several appointments when his failing health obliged him to stop preaching for a time. Having a taste for machinery, he turned his attention that way and invented a clothes wringer. Going to Connecticut to dispose of the patent, he found a man who had invented a similar machine, each having worked out his idea without knowing the other. The two machines were combined into the Universal Clothes Wringer and was manufactured at Middlefield, Conn., by a company, of which Mr. Dickerman was a member. This led to his removal with his family to that place. Here he preached occasionally, and after a while regularly, for three or four years. Being greatly interested in temperance reform, he bought and edited a paper which was prublished in Hartford under the name of the State Temperance Journal. Just at this time the state branch of the Prohibition Party was started and he assisted in it with enthusiasm. This was his last public work. He was first a Whig, then a Republican and last a Prohibitionist. He was an unusually conscientious man, with a clear perception of right and wrong, and unwavering determination to follow what he thought to be his duty regardless of consequences. As his ideas were progressive, this somtimes led him where most would fear to tread. After a short illness he died proving in his death the efficacy of the truth he had preached. History of Greene Co., Illinois p. 915 states that "Mr. Dickerman" and others taught and trained youths of the growing town (Greenfield, IL) in the mysteries of the three R;s until 1844. Note: Apparently the brother mentioned above that Elliott visited was Nelson Dickerman since his teaching in Greene County, Illinois was recorded in the history book. CHILDREN OF ELLIOT AND NANCY ARE AS FOLLOWS: 1. FRANK DICKERMAN Born 24 Oct 1856 in Brookfield, VT. 2. ADDIE NANCY DICKERMAN Born 13 Jan 1859 in Morristown, VT. 3. ALLEN ELSWORTH DICKERMAN Born 13 July 1861 in Middlefield, CT; Married on 22 Jan 1895 to Elizabeth Richardson of Winsted, CT. 4. ARTHUR LYMAN DICKERMAN Born Apr 1869 in Colebrook River, CT. Died Feb 1871 in Middlefield, CT. |
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