Souvenir Edition, The Williamstown Courier, Williamstown, Ky, May 30, 1901,
reprinted September 19, 1981 by the Grant County KY Historical Society.

J. HOWARD DICKEY was born on a farm in Fleming County, April 11, 1866. His
father was A. S. Dickey and his mother Mary Ann Kerr, both being of Scotch-
Irish extraction.  Dickey the senior was educated at the Pennsylvania
University.  J. H. Dickey grew up on a farm and went to the common schools
of his neighborhood.  Later he attended Wesleyan College at Winchester and
the National Normal University.  Having completed his education he began
life as many another worthy son of Kentucky as pedagogue, teaching his
first school in the county of Mason.  When Professor Robinson, who was
principal of the Williamstown Graded Free School, died in January, 1894,
the board of trustees, in looking around to find a fitting successor to
that worthy teacher, picked upon Mr. Dickey as the man for that place, and
well did he verify the wisdom of their choice.  For six and one-half years
he presided over the destinies of the school at Williamstown in a manner
acceptable to the patrons of the school and the board of directors.  He
combined the qualities of a strict and able disciplinarian, with a good
judge of human nature and rare qualities of ability to impart his own vast
store of information.  He would no doubt have been teaching and holding
down the principal's chair in our school yet had it not been that a
vacancy occurred in the cashier's place in the Grant County Deposit Bank
and the board of directors elected him to that position.  While Mr. Dickey
has been in the bank as yet less than a year he has made, and is every
day, making a very acceptable cashier.  Under his regime the bank is
growing more popular and the business is increasing, and while he can not
claim the honor of all this he is entitled to his share o fit.
     J. H. Dickey was united in marriage to Miss Addie Young Shields,
of Winchester, in the fall of 1893.  To them one child has been born, a
boy, Nelson Ford Dickey, who is a precocious and lovely child.  Mr. Dickey
is a devoted member of the Methodist Church and his wife an equally
devoted member of the Christian Church.  Mr. Dickey has recently purchased
and moved into a beautiful home on North Main street, and it is to be
hoped that he will be a fixture in Williamstown for many years to come.
While devoting most of his time to the bank of which he is cashier, he
is always greatly interested in the cause of education, and for two or
three seasons was the superintendent of the Methodist Sunday school.

Dickey Kerr Shields Robinson
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Fleming-KY Winchester-Clark-KY Mason-KY PA

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