Background
Dickinson, Oliver Booth was born on September 25, 1857 in Dayton, Ohio, United States. Son of Edmund W. (Doctor of Divinity) and Caroline A. (Atkinson) D.
Dickinson, Oliver Booth was born on September 25, 1857 in Dayton, Ohio, United States. Son of Edmund W. (Doctor of Divinity) and Caroline A. (Atkinson) D.
Matriculated Bucknell University, Pennsylvania, class of 1877, Master of Arts, 1903, Doctor of Laws, 1919.
He received an Master of Arts from Bucknell in 1903. He was in private practice in Chester, Pennsylvania from 1878 to 1914. On March 31, 1914, Dickinson was nominated by President Woodrow Wilson to a new seat on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania created by 38 Statistics
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He was confirmed by the United States Senate on April 28, 1914, and received his commission the same day, serving thereafter until his death.
Because of their sinful state, all human beings stand in need of salvation, and God's gracious provision for this consists in the life and work of Jesus Christ.
Member: American, Pennsylvania and Delegate Company Bar Associations. Delegate Company Historical. Society; Delegate Company Institute, of Science.
Clubs: Penn. Chester, Springhaven Country, University, Lawyers.
Married H. Evelyn Sines, October 2, 1881.