Background
Dickson, the son of Review John Dickson, was born in Charleston, S. C., November 8, 1825. His mother was a daughter of Review
Andrew Flinn, Doctor of Divinity, the first pastor of the 2d Presbyterian Church in Charleston.
After graduation he began to teach in his native city, but was soon obliged to move to a more northern climate for the sake of his father"s health. He taught in Cincinnati for about a year, and after his father"s death, in 1847, entered Lane Theological Seminary in that city.
Education
He graduated from Yale College in 1845.
Career
The next year he returned to New Haven, and was connected with the Yale Divinity School until January, 1850. He subsequently served the church in Wilmington, North. C, for about 18 months, and then the church in Chester, South. C, for three years. While filling this position he died, in Tuscaloosa, after two days" illness, of pleurisy, January 8, 1879, aged 53 years.
Dickson had published, in 1856 and 1860, two series of Plantation Sermons, and in 1872 a volume on the Temptation in the Desert.
He was also, in 1878, the successful competitor for the prize established by the late Honorary Richard Fletcher, by an essay entitled, "The Light—is it Waning?"
This article incorporates public domain material from the Yale Obituary Record.
