Stoddard Dickinson
Stoddard Dickinson, (deceased) was born May 6, 1799, in Southington, Conn,, son of Levi and Levina Dickinson. In 1821 he removed to Ohio, making the journey on foot, and settled in Aurora Township, where he purchased a piece of land. Having established a home, he was married January 28, 1823, to Lucy A., daughter of Abel and Frelove Hine, who bore him eight children: Emma (born December 26, 1823; married December 31, 1840, to S. A. Sutliff, of Connecticut; died September 22, 1864; was mother of nine children, five of whom are still living: Altha, Alice, Mary, Seth and Frank); Janet (born June 29, 1826; died January 28, 1830); Adelaide (born February 10, 1830; married March 17, 1856, to L. H. Colton, of Michigan, where they still reside; have two children: Allen L. and Mary); Ursula (born October 18, 1831; married March 17, 1856, to M. D. Holcomb, of Shalersville, Ohio; died September 26, 1869; was mother of six children, two of whom are still living: Inez M. and Pearl M.); Allen (born March 26, 1834; enlisted in the war of the Rebellion in the autumn of 1861; was a member of Company F, Forty-second Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry; died July 17, 1863); Truman B. (born June 14, 1837; married January 24, 1859, to Jane P. Tuttle, of Freedom, Ohio; have two children: Mertilla C. and Clifford T. He served six years as Overseer of the Portage County Poor, and has acted as agent of the Ohio Farmers' Insurance Company for the past four years, residing on the old homestead farm in Shalersville Township); Ansel E. (born May 21, 1845; married March 5, 1873, to Ella Arnold, of Kansas, where they now reside; have three children: Eda A., Walter E. and an infant); George W. (born February 22, 1847; married February 22, 1876, to Delia Spencer, of Shalersville, Ohio). The subject of this sketch moved to Shalersville Township, this county, in the spring of 1826, where he resided with Abel Hine one year. He then purchased a piece of land two miles south of Shalersville Center, which he cleared and made his home until the spring of 1859, when he moved to a farm one mile south of Shalersville Center, where he died March 15, 1872, and where his widow now resides with her son, George W.
From History of Portage County, Ohio, Warner, Beers & Co., Chicago, 1885