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John F. Dickisson
Morris Co. Up

Successfully engaged in the decorating business in Parsippany, Morris county, New Jersey, is John F. DICKISSON, who has attained a leading place in industrial circles through his own well-directed efforts. Like others, he has not found in his business that all days were equally bright, but with resolute purpose and unshaken energy he has progressed, and has attained to a plane of financial comfort, He descends from a family which has been identified with the interests of New Jersey for some generations.

Royal T. DICKISSON, father of John F. DICKISSON, was born in 1840, and was a farmer in Sussex county, New Jersey. He removed to Morristown, Morris county, New Jersey, in 1886, after selling his farm in Sussex county, and engaged in landscape gardening for many years, his death occurring May 15, 1910. He married Elizabeth HEATER, born in Pike county, Pennsylvania, where she lived until she was eighteen year, of age, and she is now living with her son, John F. Children:

  • Mrs. Georgia Strait, of Paterson, New Jersey;
  • Ira, of Weatherly. Pennsylvania;
  • Edward, of Newark, New Jersey:
  • John F.

John F. DICKISSON was born in Sussex county, New Jersey in 1886, after the removal of his parents to Morris county he attended school in Morristown for the period of one year. He was apprenticed in Morristown to learn the trade of painting and decorating and, having finished this apprenticeship, secured a position in a decorating shop in the city of New York. While living there he attended the New York Trades School, and also the Cooper Institute. He then returned to Morris county, New Jersey, in 1893, and located at Troy Hills. Three years later he leased a dairy farm at the same place, and conducted this until 1910, when he purchased his present place of six acres at Parsippany. He has built a shop on his property for the proper conduct of his painting and decorating business and during the busy season employs a considerable number of men, He has also erected a fine barn and other out-buildings, and made many improvements on this place. In political matters he affiliates with the Progressive party, and he is a member of the Baptist church. He married Minnie BAYLES, of Morristown, New Jersey, and they have had children:

  • Olive L.,
  • Lester,
  • Ruth,
  • Bayles.

This biography was transcribed by Ida King.

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