Linneus Clinton Dick
Linneus Clinton Dick, county superintendent of schools of Madison County, has been engaged in educational work in Ohio for nearly forty years, and comes from a family of educators and professional men.
Mr. Dick was born in Fairfield County, Ohio, October 11, 1862. His grandfather, John W. Dick, a native of Virginia, was an Ohio school teacher for a number of years. His great-grandfather was a native of Scotland, and on coming to the United States settled in Virginia. John W. Dick married Miss Caywood, of Somerset, Ohio, and they had seven children. William J. Dick, father of the Madison County superintendent of schools, was born in Perry County, ohio, and taught school for fifty years. He married Mary Emeline Van Tassell in 1856. She also taught school for half a century, in Fairfield County. Her father, John Van Tassell, was a native of New York State and of Holland Dutch ancestry. He came to Ohio and followed his trade as a wool carder. He married a Miss Deyo, of Gallipolis, Ohio, who died during the cholera epidemic of 1832. William J. Dick and wife had a family of three children, two sons and one daughter. The daughter was a school teacher until her marriage to G. C. Deems, of Galway, Franklin County, ohio. The son, Willis Virgil Dick, was in the Methodist ministry for twenty-five years, serving as district superintendent of the Lancaster, Ohio, district, and for several years in the London, Ohio, district, and subsequently invented a steel safe cabinet, and made a big success of its manufacture. This cabinet is still manufactured at Marietta, Ohio.
Linneus Clinton Dick was educated in the public schools of Fairfield County, and began his career as a teacher in Perry County, where he taught two years. He also taught in Hocking county, and at West Jefferson in Madison County. He taught in the town schools until 1898, when he was elected superintendent of schools of West Jefferson. This office he resigned in 1909 to become assistant state superintendent of schools under John W. Zeller. Subsequently for two years he was a sales representative of the Safe Cabinet Company at Dayton, Ohio, and in 1913 returned to West Jefferson and was again elected superintendent of schools. In 1917 he was chosen county superintendent of the county, and has been the capable head of the public school system of the county now for seven years. Mr. Dick is a republican, a Methodist, is affiliated with the Masonic Order, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Kiwanis Club of London.
He married at West Jefferson, June 10, 1886, Miss Cora A. Ingalls, daughter of Rufus and Cynthia Ingalls, of West Jefferson. They have one daughter, Gladys E., who is a graduate of Ohio State University, and in 1913 became the wife of Dr. C. B. Tanner, of Columbus.
From HISTORY OF MADISON COUNTY - W. H. Beers [Chicago, 1883]