Biography of Ezra Dickenson, page 864.  History of De Kalb County, Indiana.  
Inter-State Publishing Company, Chicago, 1885.

Ezra Dickenson, a retired farmer of Auburn, was born in Sharon, Litchfield 
Co., Conn., Aug, 26, 1798. He was reared a farmer, living with his parents 
till his majority. In 1819 he went to Ohio and located in Johnson Township, 
Trumbull County, where he bought a tract of wild land which he cleared and 
cultivated, residing there till 1836, when he came to Indiana and entered 
120 acres of Government land in Concord Township, De Kalb County.  In 1842, 
having three children who were mutes, he sold his farm in Concord Township 
and bought one near Hicksville Ohio, that his children might have the 
advantage of the deaf and dumb asylum.  In 1852 he sold his farm, and 
returned to De Kalb County and bought a farm in Wilmington Township where he 
lived till 1880, when, feeling the infirmities of old age creeping on, he 
sold his farm and bought a residence in Auburn that he might spend the rest 
of his life in a more quiet manner.  When he came to Indiana, De Kalb County 
was a dense wilderness. Indians were plenty, but white people scarce.  
There were no roads, and oxen were the only teams used.  He was one of he 
first Petit Jurymen of the first Circuit Court of De Kalb County.  The 
first court was held in a log house on the site of the present court-house 
in Auburn, the jail was a loft over the court-room, which was entered 
through a hole in the floor, and the ladder taken away to prevent the 
escape of prisoners.  The nearest markets were Fort Wayne and Hicksville.  
While living in Wilmington Township, Mr. Dickenson served four years as 
Justice of the Peace.  In 1861 when, in his sixty-third year, he enlisted 
in Company F, Forty-fourth Indiana Infantry, barely passing the examination 
of the mustering officer, who took him to be about forty-five.  April 3, 
1862, he was discharged for disability.  He is living with his fifth wife 
who was Mrs. Rebecca (Waldron) Sibert, to whom he was married April 22, 
1882. He is the father of twelve children, eight of whom are living. He is 
a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, and his wife of the Lutheran 
church.  He is a member of DeLong Post, No. 67, G.A.R.  He has affiliated 
with the Republican party since its organization.

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Arlene Goodwin
Auburn, Indiana
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