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John M. Dickenson, general merchant of Minden, Mo., and the successor to William A. Frazier since September, 1888, was born in McDonough County, Ill., in 1856, and is a son of James E. and Emma J. (Jackson) Dickenson, who were born in Kentucky and were married in Illinois, where they made their home until 1880, when they came to Henry County, Mo., and in 1884 to Barton County, where they are still living, earnest members of the Christian Church. The father was born in Green County, Ky., in 1833. John M. Dickenson is their only child, and received a good education in the common schools of his native county. In 1880 he came with his parents to Missouri and, as above stated, engaged in his present business in September, 1888, his stock of goods being valued at $2,500. He is a Democrat, and voted for Cleveland in 1884. He belongs to the K. of P., Minden Lodge No. 135, and is a member of the Christian Church. In 1888 he was married to Miss Belle, a daughter of William and Angeline Winter, of Tennessee, who came to Southwest Missouri when Mrs. Dickenson was a child. Her parents are now living, and reside on a farm in Barton County. The father served four years as a private in the United States army. Our subject’s paternal grandfather, Charles Dickenson, was a Scotchman; and his maternal grandfather, Hon. John E. Jackson, was a Kentuckian, and a prominent and well-known attorney of McDonough County, Ill., for many years. He was a member of the Illinois Legislature from that county, and died there in 1878. He was an active Jacksonian Democrat. His wife died in 1880.