Kentucky:  A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 3rd ed., 
1886. Warren County.

REV. ARCHER C. DICKERSON, D. D., is a native of what was former 
Campbell, but now Kenton County, Ky.  He was born in 1806, and is a son 
of William and Mary (Daniel) Dickerson.  The parents of Dr. Dickerson 
were natives of Virginia, and immigrated to Kentucky in 1789.  His 
father was an officer in the war of 1812, in which he lost his life.  
Rev. A. C. Dickerson was reared on the farm, and received his early 
education at the common schools.  From sixteen to twenty years of age he 
was deputy clerk of Bourbon County.  In 1826 he entered college at 
Oxford, Ohio.  In that institution, by working nights, morning and 
Saturdays, he paid his board and tuition.  In 1829 he went to 
Mississippi, and there for ten years was engaged in teaching school, and 
was one of the early teachers of that State.  When a boy he joined the 
Presbyterian Church, and was, during his college career, a candidate 
before the Cincinnati Presbytery to enter the ministry; was licensed to 
preach in 1832, at Raymond, Miss., and has since continued in the active 
work of the ministry. In 1839 he came to Bowling Green, where he still 
resides.  For seventeen years he was pastor of the First Presbyterian 
Church of this city.  He married, in 1831, Mary W. Platner, a native of 
Mississippi, and by whom he has one surviving child - Dr. William H. 
Dickerson.  Mrs. Dickerson died in early life, and in 1840 Rev. Mr. 
Dickerson was united in marriage with Mary J. Rogers, a native of Warren 
County and daughter of Thomas Rogers, a prominent citizen and 
representative of one of the old families of this county.  To this 
marriage there are five children as follows:  Thomas R., Archer H., 
Edwin, Byrd and Florence S.  During the war Rev. Mr. Dickerson was a 
thorough Union man, and is now a Republican.  Prior to the late war he 
lectured extensively through the county in favor of emancipation.  He is 
a thorough temperance man and for sixty-two years has been an active 
worker in all temperance movements.  For fifty-three years he has been 
in the active work of the ministry.  The degree of D. D. was conferred 
upon him by Centre College, at Danville, Ky.; in 1876.  He possesses 
many rare traits that mark him as an able and efficient minister.     

Dickerson Daniel Platner Rogers
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Campbell-KY Kenton-KY VA Bourbon-KY OH MS Boyle-KY

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