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- Hanna's "Ohio Valley Genealogies," p. 47, states that Phebe Dickson, daughter of James Dickson & Margaret Gaston, married Uriah Church and had a son Andrew who married Ruth Hall, and they in turn had a daughter Clara who married Horace White and was the mother of Andrew Dickson White. The implication is that Clara's and her father's surname was Church. But that is contradicted by biographical accounts of Andrew Dickson White, which identify his grandfather as Andrew Dickson and his mother as Clara Dickson. Given our limited knowledge of the circumstances, we invite a better informed reader to confirm or refute our speculation that Andrew Dickson was born prior to his mother's marriage to Uriah Church.
In "The Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White," the author states that his mother's "father prospered as a man of business, was known as 'Colonel,' and also as 'Squire' Dickson, and represented his county in the State legislature. He died when I was about three years old, and I vaguely remember being brought to him as he lay upon his death-bed. On one account, above all others, I have long looked back to him with pride. For the first public care of the early settlers had been a church, and the second a school. This school had been speedily developed into Cortland Academy, which soon became famous throughout all that region, and, as a boy of five or six years of age, I was very proud to read on the cornerstone of the Academy building my grandfather's name among those of the original founders. ... I was born into a politically divided family. My grandfather, on my mother's side, whose name I was destined to bear, was an ardent Democrat; had, as such, represented his district in the State legislature, and other public bodies; took his political creed from Thomas Jefferson, and adored Andrew Jackson. My father, on the other hand, was in all his antecedents and his personal convictions, a devoted Whig, taking his creed from Alexander Hamilton, and worshiping Henry Clay." [2, 3]
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