Background
Dixon, Sam Houston was born on August 4, 1855 in San Marcos, Texas, United States. Son of Shadrick and Judith (Covington) Dixon.
Dixon, Sam Houston was born on August 4, 1855 in San Marcos, Texas, United States. Son of Shadrick and Judith (Covington) Dixon.
Bachelor of Arts, Baylor University, Independence, Texas, 1878.
Editor Southern Mercury (farm journal), 1888-1901, Farm and Fireside, since 1906. Owns model farm of 1,000 acres. Journal clerk, 1887, chief clerk, 1891, Texas House of Representatives.
Inspector Texas State Penitentiaries, 1891-1895.
Chief of Texas Department of Horticulture, Saint Louis Exposition, 1904. State inspector Orchards and Nurseries, 1906-1909.
Chief clerk, Texas State Department of Agriculture, 1909-1915. Representative 34th Texas Legislature, 1914-1915, resigned Chicago Woman’s, Chicago Library, Granville Travelers’, Chicago Society Ohio Women.
Author: Subject Index to Prose Fiction, 1897.
Children’s Book-plates, 1902. Concerning Book-plates, 1903. Contributor to educational and literature magazines
Home: 5220 Cornell Avenue, Chicago, Illinois.
Married Jennie Alice Wagner, of Robertson Company, Texas, April.