Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2014 All Rights Reserved USGenNet Data Repository Please read USGenNet Copyright Statement on this page: Transcribed and submitted by Linda Talbott for the USGenNet Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ =========================================================================== Formatted by USGenNet Data Repository Chief Archivist, Linda Talbott All of the above information must remain when copied or downloaded. =========================================================================== Portrait and Biographical Album of Huron County, Michigan Pub. Chapman Brothers, Chicago, 1884 [230-233] DR. HEMAN W. DICKINSON, physician and surgeon at Port Hope, was born Dec. 2, 1813, at Sackett's Harbor, Jefferson Co., N.Y. He is the son of HEMAN W. and EUNICE (GATES) DICKINSON, both of whom died when he was in childhood, the former in 1818, the latter in 1822. He was bonud (sic) to a man named ROSWELL LANE when he was seven years old, to be brought up on a farm in Oswegoville, Oswego Co., N.Y. When he was 15 years of age he ran away. He obtained employ- ment as a raftsman on Oneida Lake and worked four weeks, rafting logs on Oneida Lake to Syracuse, for which he received $60. He went next to Oneida village and engaged as a farm laborer with a man named NATHAN B. NEY, with whom he remained two years. In 1835 he came to Ypsilanti, Mich., where he again engaged as a farm assis- tant. He made his first acquaintance with Michigan Nov. 15, 1835. He remained seven years in Ypsilanti, and came thence to Tecumseh, Mich., where he worked about three years in a tannery. His next removal was to Memphis, Macomb Co., Mich., where he worked for a time on a farm and afterward spent three summers running an engine at St. Clair. He came thence to Forester, in Sanilac County, where he operated two years as an engineer, after which he came to Huron City, and worked as a lumberman for PETER F. BRAKEMAN two winters. He next entered the employment of SMITH, DWIGHT & Co., of Detroit, operating as a lumberman in their interest at Port Austin, where he remained two years. Going thence to Port Hope, he lumbered two win- ters for W. R. STAFFORD, and on the termination of that engagement took possession of the farm where his son resides. DR. DICKINSON enlisted Oct. 9, 1862, in the 23d Mich Vol. Inf., Co. F, CAPT. H. S. RAYMOND. He was in active service about 18 months subsequent to being "mustered in," participating in the siege Knoxville and the battle at Campbell Station. In the spring of 1864 he was detailed as Hospital Steward at Knoxville, and acted as Assistant Surgeon, in which capacity he was serving at the time of his discharge in November, 1865. He had acquired some knowledge of medicine previous to his coming to the coast of the Huron Penin- sula; and as he often had occasion to witness the necessity for medical advice, which frequently arose from the condition of things, he fell into the habit of giving counsel and making simple prescriptions, and he continued the practice until his enlistment in the army. On receiving his discharge, here turned to Huron County, and not long after entered the Eclectic Medical Institute at Cincinnati, Ohio, where he was graduated in 1866, and has since continued to practice his profession. He was married the first time to PERMELIA WILCOX, at Ypsilanti, in 1837. She died June 14, 1866, after having become the mother of the following children: ELLEN, HERMAN W., EUNICE (deceased), EMMA L. (died when she was eight years old), SARAH and an infant that died three days after birth. DR. DICKINSON was again married April 14, 1878, to ELLA B. DIXON. She was born in 1832. DR. DICKINSON came to Huron City (then Willow Creek) in 1851. At that date no improvements had been made in that portion of Huron County. The only thoroughfare was the beach of the lake, and even the routes outlined by "blazed" trees were wanting, the degree of progress being too small for even that primitive method of indica- ting routes of travel. At the time he came to Forester in Sanilac County, no improvements had been made north of that point. He is a Prohibitionist, and has held the positions of Super- visor, Justice of the Peace and County Clerk. =========================================================================== If you've reached this file through a SEARCH, you can access more of our growing collection of FREE online information by going to the following URL: http://www.us-data.org/ ===========================================================================