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Charles Monroe Dickinson was born on November 15, 1842 on a farm near Lowville, New York, United States. He was the son of Richard and Bessie (Rea) Dickinson.
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Charles Monroe Dickinson was born on November 15, 1842 on a farm near Lowville, New York, United States. He was the son of Richard and Bessie (Rea) Dickinson.
The only educational advantages he had as a youth were afforded by the public schools, Fairfield Seminary, and Lowville Academy.
By his fifteenth year he was doing a man’s work assisting his father who was a farmer and miller. A tenth of the first year’s wages which he earned in this way was invested in a copy of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary.
His diligent study of this volume was an important factor in preparation for his literary work. For two years after leaving Lowville Academy he taught at Haverstraw-on-the-Hudson, where, in 1863, he composed “The Children, ” a poem which became widely popular and is included in most collections of American verse.
He began the study of law in the office of the distinguished Daniel S. Dickinson at Binghamton, New York, in 1864.
The following year he was admitted to the bar and practised in Cameron County, Pennsylvania.
Returning to Binghamton, he began law practise with Giles W. Hotchkiss. His advancement in the law was rapid, resulting in the establishment of his office in New York City where he conducted a large practise until 1877 when the great volume of his work broke his health and compelled him to abandon his profession. Retiring to Binghamton, he lived an outdoor life while improving the estate which he purchased there.
In 1878 he resumed his public career by acquiring a controlling interest in the Binghamton Republican, which continued under his management until 1911.
Appointed consul general to Turkey by President McKinley in 1897, in 1901 he received an additional appointment as diplomatic agent to Bulgaria. In that capacity, he obtained the release of Ellen M. Stone, American missionary, whose kidnapping by Bulgarian brigands was one of the most widely discussed events of the time.
He was appointed consul general at large with jurisdiction over consulates of the entire Middle East in 1906, and in the same year was appointed on the board to draft regulations for the entire consular service.
He retired from public service in 1908 because of the illness of his wife, who died in that year.
The dosing years of his life were spent in Binghamton where he devoted himself to business and literary interests. His literary work includes: History of the Dickinson Family (1885); The Children and Other Verses (1889); Political History of New York State—Cleveland to Hughes (1911); Political History of New York State—From the Colonial Period (1914); The Children After Fifty Years in Little Verses and Big Names (1915); “The Greatest Miracle, ” in Liber Scriptorum of the Authors Club, 1921.
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Dickinson married on March 24, 1867 Bessie Virginia, the daughter of Giles W. Hotchkiss. On February 2, 1910, he married Alice Bond Minard of Poughkeepsie.
